City Without Men

City Without Men (1943)

Women fighting for their men, and their right to love them!

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.

Date of release
1943-01-14
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
Sidney Salkow

Casting

Interesting facts

City Without Men is a 1943 American film noir crime film directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Linda Darnell, Edgar Buchanan and Michael Duane. It was released by Columbia Pictures on January 14, 1943. A group of women lives in a boarding house near a prison where the residents are the wives of the prison inmates.

Production

Samuel Goldwyn Productions acquired the rights to the story by Albert Bein and Aben Kandel in 1939. Actor Jon Hall was originally set to star as the male lead and Jean Arthur was considered as his female co-star in the film. In 1942, Samuel Goldwyn Productions sold the rights to Columbia Pictures for $43,000. Columbia Pictures negotiated with actors Alan Marshal and Phillip Terry to play the male lead in the movie.

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