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.
Not exact matches
The first opens on a dusty road on the eve of the Civil War, as the avuncular Dr. Schultz (Christoph Waltz) claims
chain gang slave Django (Jamie Foxx) by violently disposing of his two owners (one of them is James Remar,
who crops up later in the second of these three films in a different role).
Along for the ride and a share of the money are two simple - minded felons (John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson)
who just happened to be part of Everett's
chain gang.
In awe of these «professionals,» no one in town notices that the «boys» are actually escapees from a West Texas
chain gang,
who have unwittingly rolled into town in a stolen RV, stocked mysteriously with a sewing machine, spandex, and sequins.
8:00 pm — TCM — I Am a Fugitive from a
Chain Gang Paul Muni plays an initially optimistic and energetic young man
who struggles to find a job during the Depression.
In Cool Hand Luke, Newman is once again the anti-hero, but this time he's a stubborn, rebellious convict
who stands up to The Man (in the person of cruel southern
chain gang warden Strother Martin).
7:30 am — TCM — I Am a Fugitive from a
Chain Gang Paul Muni plays an initially optimistic and energetic young man
who struggles to find a job during the Depression.
1:30 am (5th)-- TCM — I Am a Fugitive from a
Chain Gang Paul Muni plays an initially optimistic and energetic young man
who struggles to find a job during the Depression.
George Clooney comes on like a goofball Clark Gable as the fast - talking but slow - witted convict Everett, a greasy con - man
who escapes from a
chain gang, dragging along a couple of dim bulbs (a tetchy John Turturro and a sweetly stupid Tim Blake Nelson, both of whom spend much of the film with mouths agape and eyes glazed over).
At the table are Lisa Kudrow and Craig Robinson as a married couple
who own a diner, which the movie seems to think is the worst possible thing two people could do with their lives, akin to breaking rocks on a
chain gang.
Clooney is perfectly cast as Everett Ulysses McGill, a somewhat vainglorious Mississippi charmer
who breaks from a
chain gang, dragging two none - too - bright buddies (Turturro and Nelson) in his wake, purportedly to retrieve his booty, but actually to try to tempt his less than faithful Penelope (Hunter) away from her new suitor.
7:15 am — TCM — I am a Fugitive from a
Chain Gang Paul Muni plays an initially optimistic and energetic young man
who struggles to find a job during the Depression.
What are the elements of this bogus teacher education program for Memphis's poor children
who are locked down in
chain gang charters?
The jazz pianist,
who appeared on our podcast this winter, has made a committed shift into art these past few years; he and his wife, the sublime performer Alicia Hall Moran, lit up the 2015 Venice Biennale with «Work Songs,» a gruff and agitated synthesis of spirituals, diva ballads, and
chain -
gang folk songs.
Some of the students
who're completely disconnected or
who have become disconnected in the classroom, uhmm, their involvement in the
chain gang, the children respond positively to that.