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Convict 99

Country: UK, Language: English, 91 mins

  • Director: Marcel Varnel
  • Writer: Cyril Campion; Jack Davis Jr.

CGiii Comment

Infantile...filmmakers of yesteryear certainly knew how to patronise their audiences.

There is not a thread of intelligence in evidence - cheap jokes and jibes at sexuality.

A convict dresses as a woman in order to escape - woeful.


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The(ir) Blurb...

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.

Cast & Characters

Will Hay as Dr. Benjamin Twist;
Moore Marriott as Jerry the Mole;
Graham Moffatt as Albert Brown;
Googie Withers as Lottie;
Peter Gawthorne as Sir Cyril;
Basil Radford as Deputy Governor;
Dennis Wyndham as Head Warder;
Wilfred Walter as Max Slessor;
Alf Goddard as Sykes;
Garry Marsh as Johnson;
Graham Soutten as Raymond;
Teddy Brown as Slim Charlie;
Kathleen Harrison as Mabel;
Roy Emerton as Colonial;
Bertha Belmore as Lady with Tiara