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Convicted is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Henry Levin and 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 Hawks's The Criminal Code (1930) and John Brahm's Penitentiary (1938).
Convicted: Directed by Henry Levin. With Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Millard Mitchell, Dorothy Malone. A D.A. becomes the prison warden where he tries to help an inmate he prosecuted, because he believes his sentence was excessive.
Convicted is a 1950 American crime film noir drama directed by Henry Levin and is the third adaption film the 1929 play The Criminal Code by Martin Flavin. It stars Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Millard Mitchell, Dorothy Malone, Carl Benton Reid, Ed Begley, Douglas Kennedy, Martha Stewart, Frank Faylen and was distributed by Columbia Pictures .
The prison noir Convicted (1950) is the kind of movie one loves to discover at this annual festival of film noir. It's no masterpiece but simply a tough, compelling, well-acted film that is relatively obscure but was presented here in a sharp new 35mm print.
During a barroom brawl, Joe Hufford (Glenn Ford) accidentally kills the son of a powerful, prominent man. The district attorney, George Knowland (Broderick Crawford), wins a...
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William Bowers. Screenplay. A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Joe Hufford gets involved in a nightclub brawl, kills a man in self defense, and is sent to prison for manslaughter, to the dismay of district attorney George Knowland who realizes Joe had an incompetent lawyer who should have gotten him off by proving self-defense.
Convicted is a solid prison drama that tells a good story with a moral core - though it won't be setting the world on fire. The film hits the ground running - introducing the lead character played by Glenn Ford just after he has accidently killed a man in a bar.
Year: 1950. Original title: Convicted. Synopsis: Joe Hufford gets involved in a nightclub brawl, kills a man in self defense, and is sent to prison for manslaughter, to the dismay of district attorney George Knowland who realizes Joe had an ...You can watch Convicted through on the platforms:
