Word: parolees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Company She Keeps (RKO Radio) tests Lizabeth Scott's capacity for self-sacrifice. She is a chic parole officer with full authority over the pretty parolee (Jane Greer) who is beating her time with Dennis O'Keefe. Lizabeth's determined nobility, especially when given a legitimate chance to send Jane back to prison, is something that neither the script nor Actress Scott can make believable. Moviegoers may take some comfort in Actress Greer's able performance as a bitter, man-hungry jailbird with a craving for respectability...
Some stories make large demands on the credulity of their audiences. Jonathan Swift, in the interest of satire, asks his readers to imagine little men six inches high. "The Company She Keeps," in the interest of glamour, asks the audience to imagine Lizabeth Scott as a female parole officer. It...
Jane Greer plays an erratic, not-too-bright parolee who gives up shoplifting in favor of chintz, pressure cookers, and Dennis O'Keefe. Her portrayal of a charmingly brashful girl is excellent. O'Keefe, as a columnist who jilts the parole officer to marry the parolee, is a poor complement to Miss Greer. As the title suggests, she keeps some pretty dreary company in this film...
Director John Cromwell treats this trite subject matter in an unimaginative way, with the result that the picture rarely seems realistic, despite the fine acting of Miss Greer. At many points, the plot is crippled by weak dialogue. When Miss Scott asks the parole board to return her rival's...
*Its members: the Hon. David W. Peck presiding justice, appellate division, New York Supreme Court, chairman; Commissioner Frederick A. Moran, chairman, New York Board of Parole; Brigadier General Conrad E. Snow assistant legal adviser, Department of State.