Prison Without Bars
1938 British film
- 21 September 1938 (1938-09-21) (London, UK)
- 9 April 1939 (1939-04-09) (US)
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Prison Without Bars is a 1938 British black-and-white crime film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Corinne Luchaire, Edna Best and Barry K. Barnes.[1] It is set in a girl's reform school, and was based on a play by Gina Kaus, previously filmed in France as Prison sans Barreaux (1938).[2] Corinne Luchaire starred in both versions.[3]
Synopsis
A young progressive thinking woman becomes superintendent at a French girl's reformatory dominated by the harsh previous head. A young girl is blackmailed by her acquaintance over her love for the superintendent's fiancé, but is released to join him in the end, when all is revealed.[4]
Cast
- Suzanne Duplat - Corinne Luchaire
- Yvonne Chanel - Edna Best
- Dr George Marechal - Barry K. Barnes
- Renee - Mary Morris
- Alice - Lorraine Clewes
- Julie Picard - Sally Wisher
- Mme Appel - Martita Hunt
- Mlle Arthemise - Margaret Yarde
- Mme Remy - Elsie Shelton
- Nina - Glynis Johns
- Mlle Renard - Enid Lindsey
- Mlle Pauline - Phyllis Morris
- Mlle Dupont - Nancy Roberts
Critical reception
In The New York Times, Frank S. Nugent dismissed the film as "another prison picture, and while we would not want to pass too harsh a sentence upon it, neither can we fairly pretend that it is innocent":[5] whereas, in December 1938, The Daily Telegraph selected it as one of their ten best films of the year.[6]
References
- ^ "Prison without Bars (1938)". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009.
- ^ "Prison Without Bars (1938)".
- ^ "Prison Without Bars (1938, UK) - Prisonmovies.net".
- ^ "Prison without Bars (1938)". Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
- ^ "Movie Reviews". The New York Times. 6 May 2022.
- ^ "Prison Without Bars (1938)".
External links
- Prison Without Bars at AllMovie
- Prison Without Bars at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
- Prison Without Bars at IMDb
- Prison Without Bars at the website dedicated to Brian Desmond Hurst
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Films directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
- The Tell-Tale Heart (1934)
- Irish Hearts (1934)
- Ourselves Alone (1936)
- The Tenth Man (1936)
- Sensation (1936)
- Glamorous Night (1937)
- Prison Without Bars (1938)
- On the Night of the Fire (1939)
- The Lion Has Wings (1939)
- Dangerous Moonlight (1941)
- A Letter from Ulster (1942)
- Alibi (1942)
- The Hundred Pound Window (1944)
- Theirs Is the Glory (1946)
- Hungry Hill (1947)
- The Mark of Cain (1947)
- Trottie True (1949)
- Scrooge (1951)
- Malta Story (1953)
- Simba (1955)
- The Black Tent (1956)
- Dangerous Exile (1957)
- Behind the Mask (1958)
- His and Hers (1960)
- The Playboy of the Western World (1962)
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