Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
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Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sittin...
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A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...
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The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...
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A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and parol...