Prisoners in Petticoats (1950) Poster

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Accidentally incarcerated.
mark.waltz22 January 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Who you associate does matter, and for sweet Valentina Perkins, it lands her in hot water. She's incarcerated at a medium security prison for being associated with racketeer Anthony Caruso, and because the fed's are on his trail, she's targeted as well. In one minute out of observation, and escaped in the next scene. This is a sloppily written crime thriller that doesn't establish enough of a serious back story to make the audience feel any connection to care about the characters.

Robert Rockwell's also involved, with Dani Sue Nolan appropriately bitchy as a married woman jealous of Perkins and out to discredit her with Rockwell. This only spends a few minutes behind bars, with an amusing bit by the always funny Queenie Smith. I liked the film noir style set-up, but saw no reason for the title, especially since there's obviously no petticoats and the women's prison subplot is extremely minor. Obviously influenced by the same year's "Caged", this pales in comparison.
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Maybe the best of Philip Ford
searchanddestroy-118 April 2023
Philip Ford belonged to the lousiest directors who worked for Republic Pictures, the less ambitious, the less talented too, he remained all long his career in grade Z pictures, unlike RG Springsteen, Harry Keller and Thomas Carr who finally raised - at least a bit - their own career, also after a beginning at she same company. Philip Ford, like, George Blair, I repeat, remained in the bottom of the basket. Fred C Brannon, John English, besides their serial contribution with the likes of Bill Witney and Spence Gordon Bennet, were more or less the same. So was Franklyn Adreon. So, concerning this little thriller, it is rather good, not comedy oriented as so many Republic films of this period. It is a petty crime flick, not that boring nor flat, with a good Tony Caruso, but the overall result remains unfortunately predictable.
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