Prison Without Bars

Name: Prison Without Bars
Genre: Drama
Released: 1939-07-29
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Jill Esmond, Sebastian Shaw, Margaret Yarde

1939, English.

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.

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Runtime: 1h 25m
Post-credits: None listed
Language: English
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Released: 29 July 1939
Country: United Kingdom
Written by: Peggy Barwell

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