Jacktown
Cast & Crew
William Martin
Patty Mccormack
Richard Meade
Douglas Rutherford
Mike Tancredi
Johanna Douglas
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Synopsis
A juvenile delinquent and petty thief is caught by the police with a 15-year-old girl in the rear seat of his car and arrested for statutory rape. He feels that he has been unjustly accused since the girl had consented but had not revealed her age. Nevertheless, he is sentenced to 2 1/2 to 5 years in Southern Michigan Prison. To alleviate the tension he creates among the other convicts, he is allowed to care for the garden of the sympathetic warden and falls in love with his daughter. The warden discovers their relationship and transfers the young man to chauffeuring outside the prison. After a prison riot is quelled, a prisoner whom he is driving overpowers the guard, and the youth escapes. He goes to the warden's daughter but voluntarily returns to prison when she promises to wait for him.
Director
William Martin
Cast
Patty Mccormack
Richard Meade
Douglas Rutherford
Mike Tancredi
Johanna Douglas
John Anthony
Gordon Grant
Alice Gordon
Harry Newman
George F. Taylor
Russ Paquette
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
Filmed entirely on location in Southern Michigan Prison ("Jacktown") in Jackson, Michigan. Includes newsreel footage of the 1952 riots at that institution.
