Dust Be My Destiny

When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.

An army trainer becomes captain of the prison yard and in time, falls for the sister of a hardened inmate.

The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.

A World War I veteran and aspiring engineer tries to re-enter civilian life. After being unwillingly caught up in a robbery, he suffers the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, struggling

Fed up with the inhumane prison living conditions, a general prison riot breaks out, leading to hostage-taking, a stand-off with the guards and eventual negotiations with the prison administration off

An ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers and thieves, but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught, framed for a policeman's murder, and sent to prison, where h

Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.

A gentle, naive, pregnant 19-year-old widow is slowly, inexorably ground down by the hardened criminals, sadistic guards, and matron at a woman's prison. Will she be the same person when her sentence

The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.