Lloyd Nolan has just robbed a payroll, and one of the men has died. He tells girlfriend Shirley Ross he has a job in Canada, and they'll meet at a suburban train station that evening. On the way there, her car breaks down and she accepts a ride from a guy who turns out to be a guard on a prison farm. He assaults her, Nolan comes to her defense, and Nolan and Ross wind up on the guard's prison farm.

It's a pretty good little second feature from Paramount, directed by Louis King. there's a good cast: Porter Hall as the uncaring warden, John Howard as the sympathetic doctor, and Marjorie Main and Anna Q. Nilsson as tough women's matrons. William Holden has his first movie role, although I couldn't be sure I identified him as the prisoner whose fingers are busted from holding a rock drill; the print was a bit fuzzy. The standout role is May Boley as "Shifty Sue," an old woman on her fifth time in the joint, tough and compassionate.

Like many prison films, it urges better treatment of prisoners. I'm pretty sure the audience preferred the barely Code-compliant brutality.