Convicted Women was Glenn Ford's third film and the first of three that he made with Rochelle Hudson. According to son Peter's biography of his dad he liked working with Hudson, but wasn't crazy about their work together.
Ford is billed all the way down in the cast at 5. He plays a newspaper reporter who along with attorney Frieda Inescourt befriends Hudson who gets herself railroaded into a shoplifting rap and sent off to women's prison.
It's a pretty rotten place run by chief matron Esther Dale and June Lang who is the queenpin among the prisoners and has her own gang. The usual cliches concerning prison pictures especially those for women are found here.
Some of the others in this distaff prison population are are Lola Lane, the tragic Mary Field whose death sparks an investigation and in a small role Donna Reed.
The script has a lot of holes in it, but this was a B picture and I'm sure it wasn't on Harry Cohn's priority list. It's passably entertaining.
Ford is billed all the way down in the cast at 5. He plays a newspaper reporter who along with attorney Frieda Inescourt befriends Hudson who gets herself railroaded into a shoplifting rap and sent off to women's prison.
It's a pretty rotten place run by chief matron Esther Dale and June Lang who is the queenpin among the prisoners and has her own gang. The usual cliches concerning prison pictures especially those for women are found here.
Some of the others in this distaff prison population are are Lola Lane, the tragic Mary Field whose death sparks an investigation and in a small role Donna Reed.
The script has a lot of holes in it, but this was a B picture and I'm sure it wasn't on Harry Cohn's priority list. It's passably entertaining.