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Prison Farm (1938)

Directed by Louis King

Overview

Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future “Ma Kettle” Marjorie Main!)

Rated NR | Length 67 minutes

Actors

Shirley Ross | Lloyd Nolan | John Howard | J. Carrol Naish | Porter Hall | Esther Dale | May Boley | Marjorie Main | Anna Q. Nilsson | Robert Brister | Mae Busch | Edwin J. Carlie | Jimmy Conlin | Virginia Dabney | Dick Elliott | Ethyl May Halls | Carl Harbaugh | William Holden | John Hubbard | Betty Mack | Howard M. Mitchell | Blanche Rose | Bosy Roth | Vera Steadman | Archie Twitchell | Phil Warren | Ruth Warren | Pat West | Cecil Weston | Gloria Williams | Charles C. Wilson | Diane Wood | John Hart