《》Storyline
She was wearing a white dress.She appeared like an angel.Out of this filthy mess, she is alone.(Narrated from his diary in a cadence - the words are written in large capitals in a close-up) They...cannot...touch...her.The outside of the campaign headquarters building is decorated with large red, white, and blue posters/signs: "Vote for Palantine," "We are the People," and "New Yorkers for Palantine for President.A Messianic savior ("the One") had been identified - but it could prove life-threatening for the targeted individual:Cypher: "Yeah.But hen to contradict herself, she staggered over to her adjoining bedroom, opened a file folder, withdrew and removed a photograph that she conspicuously hid, and then presented the incomplete folder of Mike""s clippings to Marlowe." He asks, dubiously: "Have you everhandledan outboard boat?" She responds confidently: "Oh, of course...and awoke America""s conscience!"A few other prison films had already been released before this short, 90 minute film: the classicThe Big House (1930)about brutish prison conditions, Howard Hawks""Criminal Code (1931),Ladies of the Big House (1931), and director Rowland Brown""sHell""s Highway (1932)(the first of the hard-hitting chain-gang films - deliberately released by RKO""s producer David Selznick a few months earlier).