Yield to the Night (1956)
(Blonde Sinner)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 99m
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
Synopsis:
A shop girl on Death Row looks back over the events that led to her killing her romantic rival, and anguishes over the state's delay in resolving her appeal.
Review:
Evolving attitudes to the death penalty no doubt influenced this potent plea for change, although filming also coincided with the Ruth Ellis case. The rawness of the central performance surprised everyone, and Mitchell also shines as the nicest in a carefully graded selection of female prison warders, but the novelettish title, backstory and first person voiceover have dated it. Thompson assembles the full gamut of expressionistic effects for the prison scenes: low angles, compositions in depth, occluded shots, and sound.
(Blonde Sinner)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 99m
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
Synopsis:
A shop girl on Death Row looks back over the events that led to her killing her romantic rival, and anguishes over the state's delay in resolving her appeal.
Review:
Evolving attitudes to the death penalty no doubt influenced this potent plea for change, although filming also coincided with the Ruth Ellis case. The rawness of the central performance surprised everyone, and Mitchell also shines as the nicest in a carefully graded selection of female prison warders, but the novelettish title, backstory and first person voiceover have dated it. Thompson assembles the full gamut of expressionistic effects for the prison scenes: low angles, compositions in depth, occluded shots, and sound.
(Blonde Sinner)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 99m
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
Synopsis:
A shop girl on Death Row looks back over the events that led to her killing her romantic rival, and anguishes over the state's delay in resolving her appeal.
Review:
Evolving attitudes to the death penalty no doubt influenced this potent plea for change, although filming also coincided with the Ruth Ellis case. The rawness of the central performance surprised everyone, and Mitchell also shines as the nicest in a carefully graded selection of female prison warders, but the novelettish title, backstory and first person voiceover have dated it. Thompson assembles the full gamut of expressionistic effects for the prison scenes: low angles, compositions in depth, occluded shots, and sound.