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Prison Without Bars is a film of genre Drama directed by Brian Desmond Hurst with Glynis Johns
Prison Without Bars (1938)
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Add to a movie listPrison Without Bars is a 1939 British black-and-white, crime film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Ronald Shiner as a gendarme. It was produced by Alexander Korda Film Productions.
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A young modern woman comes to a reformatory dominated by the harsh previous head. A young girl is blackmailed by her acquaintance for her love for the head's fiancé, but is released to join him in the end, when all is revealed.Actors
Glynis Johns
(Nina)
Edna Best
(Yvonne Chanel)
Mary Morris
Barry K. Barnes
(Dr. Georges Marechal)
Martita Hunt
(Mme. Appel)
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