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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951)

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison 1951 Another in a unrelated series of Warners penitentiary tours in three different decades This one is Californias notorious Folsom Prison prior to its 1944 reformation make over Ben Rickey, the prisons sadistic old school warden who believes that the prison system if for punishment rather than reformation, rules Folsom with an iron hand He highly resents his university trained assistant, Mark Benson, who does not share Rickeys beliefs Rickey, hoping the results will be disastrous, gives Benson permission to try his modern method He tolerates Bensons innovations until convict Red Pardue is killed by another prisoner Benson blames Rickey, who had refused Pardue protection after he had reported an escape attempt Benson resigns and Rickey brings back his concentration camp program Chuck Daniels, a hardened convict, then stage his long planned prison break A bloody riot ensues in which Rickey is murdered and the escapees are accidentally killed by a dynamite blast while taking revenge on a treacherous convict

Genre: Crime , Drama , Film-Noir

Actor: Steve Cochran , David Brian , Philip Carey

Director: Crane Wilbur

Country: English

Release: 18 May 1951

Duration: 87 min

Quality: HD

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