Directed by Lewis Seiler
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
John Garfield is released from prison after serving time for a crime he didn't commit. Bitter towards the world, he vows to only look after himself. He gets arrested for vagrancy and serves time on a work farm. He falls in love with pretty Priscilla Lane, stepdaughter of the drunkard warden. Garfield accidentally kills the warden one day during a fight. The two lovers go on the lam where they get help from a friendly restaurant owner and newspaper editor. Still not convinced that he can trust people again, Priscilla turns him in and he goes on trial for his life. Garfield is always watchable, but it tends toward the melodramatic and the preaching comes off as a poor-man's Capra.
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