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Plot

In this prison drama, a remake of Caged, House of Women (1950), a pregnant woman is wrongly convicted of armed robbery. She is sentenced to five years in prison. After her child is born, the inmate is allowed to keep it. She then has three years to earn parole. If she does not, the babe will be put up for adoption. When the prison warden finds himself attracted to the woman, he makes her his personal maid. Time passes and he falls in love with her resulting in better treatment for the other prisoners. Three years pass and the woman's parole seems assured until the sadistic warden, not wanting to lose the woman he loves, decrees that she will not be paroled and that all imprisoned mothers will lose custody of their children. This harsh action spawns a bloody revolt amongst the inmates. It is the brave woman that quells the uprising. Later media coverage of the event results in her release. The warden is fired.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Drama
Run Time:
85min.
Distributor(s):
Warner Brothers
Director(s):
Walter Doniger , Crane Wilbur
Starring:
Shirley Knight Hopkins , Andrew Duggan , Constance Ford , Barbara Nichols , Maggie Hayes
Themes:
Women in Prison,Parenthood,Miscarriage of Justice
Keywords:
accusation,adoption,atrocity,child,convict,courage,criminal,custody,false-accusation,house,imprisonment,inmate,knight,love,maid,mother,newspaper,parole,prison,release,robbery,sentence [penal system],toddlers,uprising,warden,woman