A paroled convict's infatuation with a gold-digger nurse working at a sanitarium leads him to crime.A paroled convict's infatuation with a gold-digger nurse working at a sanitarium leads him to crime.A paroled convict's infatuation with a gold-digger nurse working at a sanitarium leads him to crime.
Harry Morgan
- Garth
- (as Henry Morgan)
Harry Antrim
- Dr. Stone
- (uncredited)
Joe Besser
- Cook
- (uncredited)
Peggie Castle
- Crossroads Tavern Waitress
- (uncredited)
Stephen Chase
- Bartender
- (uncredited)
Paul Dubov
- Stick-Up Man
- (uncredited)
Frank Gerstle
- Stick-Up Man
- (uncredited)
Anne P. Kramer
- Bertie, the Waitress
- (uncredited)
Ralph Montgomery
- Bar Customer
- (uncredited)
Tudor Owen
- Watchman
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaJoe Besser appears uncredited as a the diner owner who is held up at gun point early in the film. He later gained fame as a member of the Three Stooges briefly from 1957-59.
- GoofsAt the end of the film when dying criminal Jack Bernard (played by John Hoyt) falsely and vindictively attempts to incriminate Larry Nelson (Richard Basehart) to the police as being his former accomplice in the armoured car robbery, all Larry would have had to do in order to clear himself would be to have his true identity verified by the authorities of the Philadelphia prison from which he had recently been released.
- Quotes
Charlotte Maynard: You've got hands like iron. A girl wouldn't have much chance if you really got sore.
Featured review
Free... To Do What?
Richard Basehart went into Cherry Hill Prison when he was 14. Now he's 29, and has just been pardoned. The world has grown noisy and strange, but he just wants to keep his head down, so he winds up in a small town working for almost nothing at a hospital that specializes in lungers. He vaguely hopes to get a girl friend, but doesn't know anything about women, so when nurse Marilyn Maxwell turns him down because she's looking for a rich man, he agrees to help armored-car robber Joseph Pevney get some money to his ex-wife in return for a bankroll. He impresses Miss Maxwell with the money, but the wife's mob wants all of the money from the robbery.
I'm so used to Basehart playing deep-voiced authority figures in the 1960s, that watching him play this young-old fish out of water is startling. Crane Wilbur directs his actors to very simple performances that lead you to think that this is all inevitable, while getting in a subtextual knock at society's unwillingness to accept ex-cons. With Signe Hasso, Dorothy Hart, Lloyd Gough and Harry Morgan.
I'm so used to Basehart playing deep-voiced authority figures in the 1960s, that watching him play this young-old fish out of water is startling. Crane Wilbur directs his actors to very simple performances that lead you to think that this is all inevitable, while getting in a subtextual knock at society's unwillingness to accept ex-cons. With Signe Hasso, Dorothy Hart, Lloyd Gough and Harry Morgan.
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Ins Leben entlassen
- Filming locations
- Eastern State Penitentiary - 2124 Fairmont Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA(early exterior and interior scenes)
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- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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