Now Barabbas Was a Robber

Plot

A popular British stage play by William Douglas Home was the basis for this out-of-the-ordinary prison picture. Richard Greene heads the cast as Turnfell, a murderer facing a death sentence. Turnfell is but one of several inmates whose joys and sorrows are detailed in anecdotal fashion: others include a cockney forger (William Hartnell), an embezzling bank clerk (Ronald Howard) and a bigamist (Lesley Dwyer). Also on hand is the Governor (or warden), played with a refreshing lack of genre cliches by Sir Cedric Hardwicke and an Irish terrorist, well-played by a very young Richard Burton. Now Barabbas was a Robber was eventually given a general release under the streamlined title Now Barabbas. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

• Richard Greene - Tufnell
• Cedric Hardwicke - Governor
• Kathleen Harrison - Mrs.Brown
• Ronald Howard - Roberts Bank Cashier
• Stephen Murray - Chaplain

William Hartnell - Warder Jackson; Richard Burton - Paddy; Beatrice Campbell - Kitty; Betty Ann Davies - Rosie; Leslie Dwyer - Brown; Alec Clunes - Gale; Harry Fowler - Smith; Dora Bryan - Winnie; Gerald Case; David Hannaford - Erb Brown; Kenneth More - Spencer; Dandy Nichols; Constance Smith - Jean; Percy Walsh; Julian D'Albie; Lilly Kahn - Woman; Victor Fairley; Glyn Lawson

Credit

Gordon Parry - Director, Gerald Turney-Smith - Editor, Leighton Lucas - Composer (Music Score), George Melachrino - Composer (Music Score), Otto Heller - Cinematographer, Anatole de Grunwald - Producer, Gordon Parry - Screenwriter, William Douglas Home - Play Author

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