Prison Without Bars (1939)

8.0/10 • 85 min • Drama

Overview

1939 BBC studio production of Peggy Barwell’s play Prison without Bars, set in a girls’ reformatory, which was adapted from a German play by Gina Kaus and Otto Edgar Eis. An inmate of a girl's reformatory competes with its superintendent for the affections of its young doctor.

Cast

Nova Pilbeam

Jill Esmond

Sebastian Shaw

Margaret Yarde

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