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Convicted (1950) is a American crime film noir directed by Henry Levin and written by Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo, Jr., and William Bowers, based on a play written by Martin Flavin. The drama features Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, among others.

Plot

The prison drama tells of Joe Hufford (Ford) as a man convicted of manslaughter. George Knowland (Crawford) is the warden who understands Hufford and tries to help him adjust to prison life.
Hufford witnesses the murder of a rat by another convict (Millard Mitchell), but he sticks to the prison "silent code" and refuses to talk, even though it means he'll be accused of the killing.
He's wounded by a guard in a subsequent fight. Finally, the real murderer confesses and Hufford escapes the electric chair and into the arms of the warden's daughter (Dorothy Malone), whom he's fallen in love.

Background

Convicted was the third film version of Martin Flavin's 1929 stage play The Criminal Code.

Cast

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
Douglas Kennedy as Det. Bailey
Roland Winters as Vernon Bradley, Attorney
Ed Begley as Mackay, Head of Parole Board
Whit Bissell as States Attorney Owens
John Doucette as Convict Tex

Critical reception

The staff at Variety magazine wrote, "Convict 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 [froma play by Martin Flavin] supplies plenty of polish and good dialog to see it through."
Critic Dennis Schwartz gave the film a mixed review, specifically for the way the ending was handled, writing, "Henry Levin confidently directs this dated routine miscarriage of justice crime drama...Feeling too much doom and gloom has been laid on the snake-bitten Joe, the film concludes in a happy ending-- something the audience was probably rooting for. But this happy ending seemed a stretch."

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