drama, USA,
1942,
80 min.Režie:
William BeaudineHerci:
J. Anthony Hughes,
Eleanor Stewart,
Dick Curtis,
Charles Middleton,
Jeffrey Sayre,
více...Jack Holden returns from his honeymoon with his wife Anne and resumes his job as a guard at San Quentin prison, in San Francisco. When three inmates, including Butch Mason and Big Al, are sent to one of the guards' residential cottages to work on the plumbing, they take their guard, Gaines, hostage and attempt to escape. After one of the inmates is killed, Butch, a brutal and desperate convict, kills Gaines and the remaining inmate. Jack captures Butch, who then claims that he never fired a shot. When the governor orders an inquiry, Warden Saunderson bribes one of his men to say that he heard Jack order Gaines to shoot the inmates. Saunderson then places Jimmie, a prisoner who hopes to reform and lead a normal life, as a houseboy in the Holden cottage to eavesdrop. Saunderson also makes a deal with Butch, who is in solitary confinement, to free him from solitary if he will say he was covering for Jack. After Butch is released, he intimidates Jimmie into burying a gun in Jack's garden to use in another escape attempt. Although Butch signs an affidavit saying that Jack killed Gaines, his fear of retribution makes him change his story and admit to being the killer. Jimmie digs up the gun as planned, but, as Anne has been kind to him, he tells her that Saunderson is trying to frame Jack. Saunderson gets angry when none of the inmates will testify at the inquiry because Anne's friend, reporter Joe Williams, has already published a report about Jimmie's friend Louis being framed for another guard's murder. Jimmie, having lost all hope for reform, shoots Saunderson in Anne and Jack's house, and then commits suicide. The prison board nominates Jack to replace Saunderson, and asks Joe to report on their attempts to effect prison reform. Jack, who believes that "confinement is sufficient punishment," institutes a plan to restore the inmates' self-respect via rehabilitation. After dismantling the solitary confinement cells and freeing Louis, Jack asks inmate Skins Miller to organize a musical show, and creates classes for the inmates. One day, Anne and Joe listen in on the speakers in each classroom, and overhear Big Al intimidating Louis into helping them with their planned jailbreak. Jack goes to Louis' defense and confronts Big Al, from whom he wrests a gun. Louis is finally released and starts his new life with recently learned skills. At the same time, a prison variety show is broadcast over the radio. Jack hopes the broadcast will educate the public about the existence of thousands of inmates who, like Louis, are trying to make good.
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