Rent Convicted (1950)
3.5 of 5 from 49 ratings
1h 31min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Joe Hufford (Glenn Ford) gets involved in a nightclub brawl, kills a man in self defence, and is sent to prison for manslaughter, to the dismay of district attorney George Knowland (Broderick Crawford) who realises Joe had an incompetent lawyer who should have gotten him off by proving self-defence. Later, Knowland becomes warden of the prison Joe is in, and makes him a Trusty and his chauffeur. Joe and the warden's daughter, Kay (Dorothy Malone), fall in love but Joe gets involved in a prison escape.
- Actors:
- Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Millard Mitchell, Dorothy Malone, Carl Benton Reid, Frank Faylen, Will Geer, Martha Stewart, Henry O'Neill, Douglas Kennedy, Roland Winters, Ed Begley, Wilton Graff, Griff Barnett, Jay Barney, Brandon Beach, Whit Bissell, Marshall Bradford, Chet Brandenburg, Benny Burt
- Directors:
- Henry Levin
- Producers:
- Jerry Bresler
- Writers:
- Martin Flavin, William Bowers, Fred Niblo Jr., Seton I. Miller
- Aka:
- One Way Out
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's 2022 Centenary Club, A Brief History of Film...
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 17/05/2021
- Run Time:
- 91 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary with Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson on 'Convicted'
- Pulp Paranoia: Christopher Nolan on film noir
- The Poised Performance: Pamela Hutchinson on the career of Nina Foch
- Categorically Dependable: Kim Newman on the films of Gordon Douglas
- Codes and Convictions: video essay on Convicted
- Hymn of the Nations (1944): documentary produced and edited by Lerner featuring Arturo Toscanini, presented complete and uncut
- The Cummington Story (1945): documentary produced by Lerner featuring the music of Aaron Copland
- Three Lives (1953): short film reuniting the writers, director and lead actor of The Sniper
- Not One Shall Die (1957): short film made by the core crew members of numerous Columbia noirs Original theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
- Six short films starring the Three Stooges, lampooning the tropes and themes of the features included in this set
- World premiere on Blu-ray
