Sunday, January 4, 2015

My Six Convicts (1952)


Columbia Pictures
Directed by Hugo Fregonese
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Sony Movie Channel)

A young psychiatrist is assigned to a prison where he hopes to study them. He is coldly accepted at first, but after gaining their trust puts together a staff of misfits who help him administer tests to the other prisoners. One of them reveals a plan for a breakout which tests that trust. A mostly straight if uncompelling drama with some uncomfortable comedy relief provided by Millard Mitchell as one of the prisoners. Gilbert Roland is miscast as an Italian who supposedly rules the prison with a firm hand.

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