“HYPE THE NEW FISH”
BETTY GARDE, ON SEEING ELEANOR PARKER FOR THE FIRST TIME
DIRECTOR: John Cromwell
BOTTOM LINE: “Hype the New Fish.” Innocent Eleanor Parker spends time in a women’s prison. You get the usual prison dyke topes on both sides of the equation. With Hope Emerson as the sadistic correctional officer, Agnes Moorehead as the enlightened prison warden, and Betty Garde as the inmate who gives Marie the advice she needs to survive on the inside, Its heart is in the right place, but, like many message movies, it has not dated well. Original screenplay by Virginia Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld from a story by Kellogg and Schoenfeld.
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