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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).
- Columbia Pictures
- George Duning
- The Criminal Code, 1929 play, by Martin Flavin
- Jerry Bresler
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.
- (1.4K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Henry Levin
- 1950-08
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.
- Henry Levin, Frederick Briskin
- Glenn Ford
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 manslaughter ...
- (7)
- Dennis Schwartz
- Drama
- Henry Levin
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 1950 film based on a play by Martin Flavin, directed by Henry Levin and starring Glenn Ford as a convict who escapes from prison and tries to find his daughter. The film features a large ensemble cast of actors, including Broderick Crawford, Dorothy Malone, Will Geer and Ed Begley, and was produced by Jerry Bresler.
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Jan 17, 2020 · 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 Hawk's The Criminal Code (1931) and John Brahm's Penitentiary (1938).
