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Behind Prison Walls

Behind Prison Walls (1943)

March. 22,1943

4.9

| Drama Crime

A reworking of a familiar theme, the story finds scheming steel tycoon James J. MacGlennon (Tully Marshall) and his high-minded lawyer son Jonathan (Alan Baxter) simultaneously ending up behind bars. While incarcerated, Jonathan tries to mend his larcenous father's ways, thereby drawing closer to his not-so-bad dad.

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Alan Baxter as Jonathan MacGlennon

[1966] This Property Is Condemned [1959] Face of a Fugitive [1957] The True Story of Jesse James [1949] The Set-Up [1949] Wild Weed [1948] Close-Up

Gertrude Michael as Elinor Cantwell

[1953] No Escape [1950] Caged [1949] Flamingo Road [1945] Allotment Wives [1945] Three's a Crowd [1943] Women in Bondage

Tully Marshall as James J. MacGlennon

[1943] Behind Prison Walls [1942] This Gun for Hire [1941] Ball of Fire [1939] The Kid From Texas [1939] Blue Montana Skies [1938] Mr. Boggs Steps Out

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Reviews

David de la Fuente

1943/03/22

Saw this at a Producers Releasing Corp. "revival" of films that would have been better left for dead. A truly bad movie that does offer some chuckles for its general ineptitude, bad acting, goofy dialogue and awful sets (not one scene set in or around the prison looks like it has anything to do with a prison but instead looks like it takes place in a boring 1930s office building). Did Joel and the Bots ever get ahold of this one? It would have been perfect. Definitely better with an audience to share the howlers.