In the meantime, does anyone know the title of the following film. Here is the description I got from a correspondent:
"The story involves a man in jail who is due to be hanged the following morning. The prison governor offers him one last request and he asks for a woman to spend his last night with him in his cell. The prison governor is unhappy about this request but he is obliged to fulfil it. That evening the police happen to pick up a prostitute(?) who has just tried to commit suicide by drowning. The police offer her an amnesty if she will agree to spend the night in the cell of the condemned man. She agrees to this proposal, and the man and woman spend the night in the cell talking with each other.They discover they both have very sad backgrounds and despite having a tempestuous conversation they fall in love, and the following morning they get married just before the man goes off to be hanged."
The film was made in the US, and I think it was released in the late 1950s or the early 1960s. It is in black and white. None of the actors are household names. I tentatively think the leading man is played by an actor called John somebody."
Sounds interesting, no? Contact me at the blog's email if you happen to know the name of the movie. Thanks!
