The two fall in love, but Charlie goes ape when he sees them together and gets into fight with Joe. She feels sorry for him and goes to the superintendent, who transfers him to a soft job. Joe’s foreman is the screwy cruel drunk Charlie ( Stanley Ridges), who assigns him to the rock pile when he spots Joe with his pretty stepdaughter Mabel ( Priscilla Lane). Riding the trains as a tramp he’s brought to court as a vagrant and sentenced to labor at the Rosedale Country Work Farm. The embittered and cynical young adult Joe Bell (John Garfield) gets pardoned from prison after serving sixteen months for a burglary he didn’t commit. Lewis Seiler (“Charlie Chan in Paris”/”the Smiling Ghost”/”Guadalcanal Diary”) directs with expediency. The trite script greatly benefits from the star power of John Garfield, who plays the perfect role for him–an alienated, wise guy drifter. “ The trite script greatly benefits from the star power of John Garfield, who plays the perfect role for him–an alienated, wise guy drifter.”Ī Warner Brothers standard programmer social justice pic, a dapted from Jerome Odlum’s novel and written by Robert Rossen. (director: Lewis Seiler screenwriters: Robert Rossen/novel by Jerome Odlum cinematographer: James Wong Howe editor: Warren Low music: Max Steiner cast: John Garfield (Joe Bell), Priscilla Lane (Mabel Alden), Alan Hale (Mike Leonard), Frank McHugh (Caruthers), Billy Halop (Hank), Bobby Jordan (Jimmy), Charley Grapewin (Pop), Henry Armetta (Nick), Stanley Ridges (Charlie), John Litel (Prosecutor), Moroni Olsen (Slim Jones), Victor Kilian (Doc Saunders), William Davidson (Warden) Runtime: 88 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Louis F.
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