Best Prison Movies of the 1950s

Director: Richard Thorpe
Writers: Nedrick Young,Guy Trosper
Stars: Judy Tyler,Elvis Presley,Gloria Pall,Dean Jones,Mickey Shaughnessy,Jennifer Holden
IMDb ID: tt0050556
Genres: Musical,Drama,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1957-10-17
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Robert Wise
Writers: Nelson Gidding,Don Mankiewicz
Stars: Susan Hayward,Virginia Vincent,Simon Oakland,Theodore Bikel,Wesley Lau,Phillip Coolidge
IMDb ID: tt0051758
Genres: Film noir,Crime Fiction,Drama,Biographical film,Prison film,Trial drama
Subjects: Capital punishment,Law,Prison,Barbara Graham
Release date: 1958-11-18
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Hugo Fregonese
Writers: Michael Blankfort
Stars: Harry Morgan,Gilbert Roland,Millard Mitchell,Marshall Thompson,John Beal,Regis Toomey,Alf Kjellin,Jay Adler,Charles Bronson,Wesley Addy
IMDb ID: tt0044940
Genres: Biographical film,Comedy-drama,Drama,Comedy,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1952
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Richard Thorpe
Writers: Art Cohn
Stars: James Stewart,Carl Benton Reid,Wendell Corey,James Arness,Paul Stewart,Jean Hagen,Otto Hulett,Rhys Williams,Herbert Heyes,Porter Hall
IMDb ID: tt0044480
Genres: Biographical film,Drama,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1952-05
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Crane Wilbur
Stars: David Brian,Steve Cochran
IMDb ID: tt0043677
Genres: Drama,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1951
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

DIRECTED_BY: Robert Bresson
WRITTEN_BY: Robert Bresson
STARRING: Charles Le Clainche,François Leterrier,Roland Monod,Maurice Beerblock,Jacques Ertaud,Jean Paul Delhumeau
IMDB_ID: tt0049902
GENRE: Art film,World cinema,Docudrama,Drama,Prison film
SUBJECTS: Prison
INITIAL_RELEASE_DATE: 1956
COUNTRY: France
LANGUAGE: French Language

Director: Hugo Haas
Writers: Hugo Haas
Stars: John Agar,Cleo Moore
IMDb ID: tt0048174
Genres: Drama,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1955-11
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Neville Brand,Leo Gordon
IMDb ID: tt0047417
Genres: Drama,Prison film,Film noir
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1954
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Diana Dors,Glynis Johns
IMDb ID: tt0046535
Genres: Drama,Prison film,Biographical film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1953
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English Language

DIRECTED_BY: André Cayatte
STARRING: Antoine Balpêtré,Marcel Mouloudji
IMDB_ID: tt0044977
GENRE: Social problem film,Drama,Prison film
SUBJECTS: Prison
INITIAL_RELEASE_DATE: 1952
COUNTRY: France
LANGUAGE: French Language

Director: Renato Castellani
Writers: Renato Castellani,Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Stars: Giulietta Masina,Anna Magnani,Myriam Bru,Ada Passeri,Renato Salvatori,Cristina Gaioni,Milly Monti,Angela Portaluri,Manzilla Ercolani,Anita Durante
IMDb ID: tt0051986
Genres: Drama,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1959-01-29
Country: Italy,France
Language: Italian Language

Director: Edward L. Cahn
Stars: Frank Cady,Kim Spalding,Joan Dixon,Robert Shayne
IMDb ID: tt0042442
Genres: Mystery,Detective fiction,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1950-11-21
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Genres: Prison film,Drama
Release date: 1957