Men Without Souls
Men Without Souls is a 1940 black and white crime movie, starring Barton MacLane and Glenn Ford and directed by Nick Grinde. Plot 
Johnny Adams (Glenn Ford) goes to prison, under a false name, with the intention of killing the sadistic Captain White (Cy Kendall), a bastard guard, who had beaten Johnny's father to death just before the end of his sentence. Not knowing Johnny's true identity, White asks him to spy on his cellmate "Blackie" Drew (Barton MacLane), but Johnny and Blackie develop a mutual respect for one another. Rev. Thomas Stoner (John Litel), the prison's idealistic new chaplain, well-meaning but seen by the prisoners as a fink, learns of Johnny's plan and persuades him to give it up and do his time peacefully, but when "Blackie" quietly kills White, he frames Johnny out of misguided spite. The honesty of Rev. Stone ensures that Johnny gets convicted, and sentenced to the chair, but Stone has a feeling that Blackie is holding out some angle on the truth. Only Blackie can save Johnny, but will the truth set Johnny free, or an explosion in the prison boiler room? Cast

References 
Gunmen and gangsters: profiles of nine actors who portrayed memorable screen, by Michael Schlossheimer
The American movies reference book: the sound era, by Paul Michael, James Robert Parish, Prentice-Hall, inc

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1940 crime drama films
Columbia Pictures films
1940 films
American crime drama films
American black-and-white films
1940s English-language films
Films directed by Nick Grinde
1940s American films