Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Devil's Island and environs instead of in a cheap London lodging-house. Tall, bland, humorous-eyed Ian Hunter is the Christlike central figure. The tangled lives he sets right are not those of petty, shabby, roominghouse misfits, but such splendid votaries of violence as Clark Gable (Convict Verne), Joan Crawford (a fille de joie wearing Miss Crawford's best Oh-God-the-pity-of-it facial), Paul...
Lukas (cynical Convict Hessler), J. Edward Bromberg (timid Convict Flaubert), Albert Dekker (bossy Convict Moll...
Through the horrors of an escape through the jungle, a sea voyage without water, fights, murders, lusts and treachery, Convict Hunter comforts the fugitives. One by one he makes each criminal understand in his own case the words he reads the survivors: ". . . for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." Only skeptical Paul Lukas does not believe: he does not even understand...
...they dig up a charge of passport violation--a charge which is almost a stranger to the courts of law? The question, though a moral one, stands out like a sore thumb. To prove that Browder was treated like any other American citizen, the government will now have to convict all the evaders of passport laws--and there are plenty. It cannot let other offenders pass unnoticed, and still claim that Browder was not a marked...
...Universal) adds another to the staggering total of prison breaks screen convicts have made from Hollywood jails. Though "the technical adviser on break scenes" in this film was a paroled former convict, the picture is chiefly interesting because Victor McLaglen plays a warden with a larcenous streak and a guilty conscience; Edward Brophy plays a sly trusty who finds the warden out; and Master Jackie Cooper successfully continues his graduation out of short pants into juveniles...