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Director
  
Henry Levin

Music director
  
George Duning

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Action, Crime, Drama

Story by
  
Martin Flavin

Country
  
United States

Convicted (1950 film) movie poster

Release date
  
August 1950 (1950-08) (United States)

Based on
  
the play The Criminal Code  by Martin Flavin

Writer
  
Martin Flavin (play), William Bowers (screenplay), Fred Niblo Jr. (screenplay), Seton I. Miller (screenplay)

Cast
  
Glenn Ford
(Joe Hufford),
Broderick Crawford
(George Knowland),
Millard Mitchell
(Malloby),
Dorothy Malone
(Kay Knowland),
Carl Benton Reid
(Captain Douglas),
Frank Faylen
(Convict Ponti)

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,
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,
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,
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,
Stanford Prison Experiment: Psychology of Imprisonment
,
The Green Mile

Convicted is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Henry Levin starring Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford. It was the third Columbia Pictures film adaptation of the 1929 stage play The Criminal Code by Martin Flavin, following Howard Hawk's The Criminal Code (1931) and John Brahm's Penitentiary (1938).

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The prison drama tells of Joe Hufford (Glenn Ford), a man convicted of manslaughter. George Knowland (Broderick Crawford) is the warden who understands Hufford and tries to help him adjust to prison life. Hufford witnesses the murder of an informer by another convict Malloby (Millard Mitchell), but he sticks to the prison's "silent code" and refuses to talk, even though it means he will be accused of the killing. He is locked in solitary confinement. In the end, the real murderer confesses and Hufford escapes the electric chair and into the arms of the warden's daughter (Dorothy Malone), with whom he has fallen in love.

Cast

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  • Glenn Ford as Joe Hufford
  • Broderick Crawford as George Knowland
  • Millard Mitchell as Malloby
  • Dorothy Malone as Kay Knowland
  • Carl Benton Reid as Captain Douglas
  • Frank Faylen as Convict Ponti
  • Will Geer as Convict Mapes
  • Martha Stewart as Bertie Williams
  • Henry O'Neill as Detective Dorn
  • Roland Winters as Vernon Bradley, Attorney
  • Ed Begley as Mackay, Head of Parole Board
  • Whit Bissell as State Attorney (Mr. Owens)
  • John Doucette as Convict Tex

    • Reception

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    The staff at Variety magazine wrote, Convicted isn't quite as grim a prison film as the title would indicate. It has several off-beat twists to its development, keeping it from being routine. While plotting is essentially a masculine soap opera, scripting [from a play by Martin Flavin] supplies plenty of polish and good dialog to see it through."


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