Prison Without Bars

Prison sans barreaux

France

1938

98 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

French

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SCR Léonide Moguy, Hans Wilhelm, Gina Kaus, Otto Eis, Egon Eis, Henri Jeanson, Hilde Koveloff

CAST Annie Ducaux, Roger Duchesne, Ginette Leclerc, Corinne Luchaire, Marthe Mellot, Madeleine Suffel, Alice Cortot, Maximilienne, Gisèle Préville, Marguerite Pierry

MUSIC Will Grosz

Venice (In Competition)

Synopsis

The only movie of the French thirties dealing with reform schools (for girls). The movie features two parts lasting about 45 minutes each.

The first part shows how a young daring headmistress mposes her "new " methods based on loyalty, courage and respect. The old one, a shrew, is almost a caricature like the other “tutors” : sinister-looking (only good-looking people are good?), treating her inmates as dogs (the scene when the girls undress before going to bed is the best).

The second part gets lost in second-rate melodrama ,one of the girls falling in love with the doctor (who is also the new headmistress’s fiancé), and one of the girls (Ginette Leclerc, who at 26, was cast as an adolescent!) blackmails her to get cigarettes and alcohol. —IMDb