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During the 1950s, two women inmates are sent to a maximum security state prison. One of the two women is a repeat offender who knows many of the inmates and guards at the prison. She almost feels like returning home to her prison family. The other woman is a decent person, a first-time offender whos no criminal.She unintentionally killed a child in a car accident. Shes very young, married, and is terrified of being in prison. Her mental state is very fragile. The womens prison is adjacent to the mens prison. The two prisons are separated by a high wall but there are secret ways of crossing from one prison into the other. Warden Brock is in charge of the mens prison while Amelia van Zandt is the heartless brutal director of the womens prison. The guards are severe and not very friendly, since, they too, fear the wrath of their female warden van Zandt. The only ray of hope and decency in this earthly inferno is the prison doctor, Dr. Crane. However, the good doctor has little power or say in the daily running of the prison.He tries as much as possible to protect his patients, the most vulnerable of all inmates. In this human hell, the two new arrivals, housewife Helene Jensen and forger Brenda Martin, must survive. Prison newbie Helene Jensen decides to stick close to veteran jail-bird Brenda Martin in order to learn the ropes of prison life but this might just not be enough to ensure Helenes survival.
One of the first and most influential of the many "women in prison" films that would become exploitation staples, this pulp shocker established many of the tropes that would define the genre (including then-daring intimations of lesbianism). is memorably sadistic as the psychopathic prison warden who takes out her sexual frustration on her women inmates. While a caring physician () tries to improve the jails brutal atmosphere, a pair of rebellious inmates ( and ) take matters into their own hands.
Ida Lupino
Amelia van Zandt
Jan Sterling
Brenda Martin
Cleo Moore
Mae
Audrey Totter
Joan Burton
Phyllis Thaxter
Helene Jensen
Howard Duff
Dr. Crane
Warren Stevens
Glen Burton
Barry Kelley
Warden Brock
Gertrude Michael
Chief Matron Sturgess
Vivian Marshall
Dottie LaRose
Mae Clarke
Matron Saunders
Ross Elliott
Don Jensen
Adelle August
Grace
Don C. Harvey
Chief Guard Tierney
Juanita Moore
Polyclinic 'Polly' Jones
Edna Holland
Sarah Graham
Murray Alper
Mae's Boyfriend
Wanda Barbour
Inmate
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