A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

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
John Chard
These are the men I was forced to live with. Joe Hufford is an honest and affable man, but during an altercation in a bar he punches out a man who sadly dies from banging his head on the floor. All and sundry realise that this is a tragic accident, including the prosecuting DA who tries to feed t...
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"Joe" (Glenn Ford) gets embroiled in a bar room brawl that sees him punch a man to the floor. Unfortunately for him, the man dies and soon he is in from of the district attorney "Knowland" (Broderick Crawford) who, whilst sympathetic, warns him that a sentence of between one and ten years looms. Ini...