Prison Without Bars

Prison Without Bars
Directed byBrian Desmond Hurst
Written byArthur Wimperis
Margaret Kennedy (dialogue)
Based onplay by Egon Eis
Otto Eis
Gina Kaus
Hans Wilhelm
Produced byAlexander Korda
StarringCorinne Luchaire
Edna Best
Barry K. Barnes
CinematographyGeorges Périnal
Bernard Browne
Edited byWilliam Hornbeck
Charles Crichton
Music byJohn Greenwood
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists Corporation (UK)
Release dates
  • 21 September 1938 (1938-09-21) (London, UK)
  • 9 April 1939 (1939-04-09) (US)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Prison Without Bars is a 1938 British black-and-white crime film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Corinne Luchaire, Edna Best and Barry K. Barnes.[1] It is set in a girl's reform school, and was based on a play by Gina Kaus, previously filmed in France as Prison sans Barreaux (1938).[2] Corinne Luchaire starred in both versions.[3]

  1. ^ "Prison without Bars (1938)". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009.
  2. ^ "Prison Without Bars (1938)".
  3. ^ "Prison Without Bars (1938, UK) - Prisonmovies.net".