Sentences with phrase «chain gang prisoners»

Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis as escaped chain gang prisoners, shackled together and on the run, in the most Stanley Kramerish of all Stanley Kramer pictures.

The trick is that Everett Ulysses McGill is a chain gang prisoner, on the same chain as dumb Pete (Turturro and dumber Delmar (Nelson) and on the run from the police as they supposedly rush to get some loot from McGill's last heist before his old cottage is flooded by the opening of the Tennessee River by the TVA.

Not exact matches

The opening shot shows three prisoners escaping from a chain gang.

Hale Hamilton's most famous talkie assignment was as the clergyman brother of chain - gang prisoner Paul Muni in 1932's I Am a Fugitive.

The action begins with convicted prisoner Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney), working a Mississippi chain gang when he learns that his estranged wife Penny (Holly Hunter) is fixing to marry another man.

On screen, there are fewer pleasures, though the opening moments are undeniably impressive in an old - fashioned, epic - monolithic way, as the camera drifts up from underwater to reveal Valjean and a chain gang of prisoners hauling an enormous ship into port under the crash of waves and the glower of the police inspector Javert (Russell Crowe).

Social dramas or «message films» expressed powerful lessons, such as the harsh conditions of Southern prison systems in Hell's Highway (1932) and I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), the plight of wandering groups of young boys on freight cars during the Depression in William Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road (1933), or the lawlessness of mob rule in Fritz Lang's Fury (1936), or the resourcefulness of lifer prisoner and bird expert Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) in John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (1961), or the tale of a framed, unjustly imprisoned journalist (James Cagney) in Each Dawn I Die (1939).

3:15 am (5th)-- TCM — Cool Hand Luke One of Paul Newman's most memorable films, with Newman playing a renegade prisoner on a Southern chain gang who refuses to do what he's told, escaping time and time again only to be recaptured as the guards attempt to break him.

Several years ago, the Alberta government and other provincial governments considered the introduction of Alabama - style chain gangs as a form of employment for prisoners.