Prison Without Bars (1938)
1h 17m
Running Time
September 20, 1938Release Date
Prison Without Bars (1938)
1h 17m
Running Time
September 20, 1938Release Date
Plot.
Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.
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Cast & Crew.
Corinne Luchaire
Suzanne
Edna Best
Yvonne Chanel
Barry K. Barnes
Dr. Georges Marechal
Lorraine Clewes
Alice
Mary Morris
Renee
Sally Wisher
Julie
Brian Desmond Hurst
Director
Martita Hunt
Mme. Appel
Details.
Wiki.
Prison Without Bars is a 1938 British black-and-white crime film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Corinne Luchaire, Edna Best and Barry K. Barnes. It is set in a girl's reform school, and was based on a play by Gina Kaus, previously filmed in France as Prison sans Barreaux (1938). Corinne Luchaire starred in both versions.