Summary
A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes. Restored in 2020 by the Academy Film Archive with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts from a 16mm print donated by Giancarlo Esposito and Laurence Fishburne.
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+32)
Critics 100Audiences 68GoodWatch 87
Tomatometer100%
IMDb6.8
Running time
1 h 22 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 action movies, −26 min on the typical 108
typical 10882Half of all action movies run 96–127 min.
Released
1939
April 27, 1939
87 years ago
Genres
ActionCrimeDramaLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United States
Directing · 1
- Leo C. Popkin Director
Writing · 2
- Joseph O'Donnell Screenplay, Story
- Hazel Jamieson Story, Screenplay
Other crew · 1
- Zelda Young Additional Dialogue
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