EPILOGUE: "The film concludes with the following written acknowledgment: 'Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gratefully acknowledges the cooperation of the North Carolina prison authorities and wishes to state that the penal system existing in North Carolina today has been improved immeasurably over conditions depicted in the picture.'"
PROLOGUE: "The March, 1951 issue of Reader's Digest published an article in its series, 'The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met.' That character is David Marshall Williams----and this is his story as he lived it."