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| You Can't Beat the Law (1943); Prison Mutiny | |
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![]() You Can't Beat the Law (1943) Dir. Phil Rosen a/k/a Prison Mutiny A Monogram Picture 64 min. / B&W / 1.37:1 Playboy Edward Norris is a little too freewheeling in his personal life and ends up in a car with some guys who have just robbed a bank. To shield their actual boss, they all turn state's evidence against him, and he goes to stir, ya get me? It hardens him and turns him into a badass, but new reform-minded warden Milburn Stone believes in him, and pretty Joan Woodbury - daughter of a prison guard - thinks he's cute, so he's got THAT going for him. Eventually (which isn't very long, you know how short a Monogram picture is, and thankfully so) he's able to clear his name - and stays in prison as the new athletic director, trying to reform his tough-guy ex-cellmate Jack LaRue and form a prison baseball team(!). Funny how even with their brevity, Monograms seeeeeeeeeeem longer, y'know what I mean? This is an okay picture as a bottom-bill, I s'pose, but Edward Norris - whoever he is - did nothin' for me. On the other hand, I've seen Miss Woodbury several times (including of course Brenda Starr, Reporter and some Charlie Chan movies) and I like her - she's got charisma. Tris Coffin makes a quick appearance as a mob lawyer. Funny, invariably when I watch an old prison picture it reminds me that I should break out Laurel & Hardy in Pardon Us again - that's a fine prison picture and doesn't get watched or shown enough. Million-dollar Dialog: New warden to the prison's new athletic director: "I think if you keep the men PHYSICALLY fit they'll stay MENTALLY fit." Hey, what can I tell ya? It's a routine programmer but one doesn't visit the Monogram room of In The Balcony for Shakespeare now, does one? |
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