Sentences with phrase «chain gangs as»

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.

Not exact matches

Berringer played for a Cornhuskers team that in 1995, when a number of players were involved in criminal incidents, was regarded as a chain gang dressed in red.

Bluegrass music is at the heart of the film, as it was of «Bonnie and Clyde,» and there are images of chain gangs, sharecropper cottages, cotton fields, populist politicians, river baptisms, hobos on freight trains, patent medicines, 25 - watt radio stations and Klan rallies.

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).

Keeping in perspective when it was made the film is not bad, Muni a fine actor when not in costume, say in Chain Gang, brings the hambone out as Zola ages and many of the rest of the cast are stiff and overly grand.

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.

In embracing this new locale, Scorsese creates a movie built on the foundations of GoodFellas and Mean Streets but not chained to it, a picture that feels as effortless as The Aviator and Gangs of New York felt effortful.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

The most dangerous, worthless, scum of our society, including gang members and drug dealers, overbreed them, fight them, use them as bait, beat them, starve them, chain them, lock them in cages and cut off their ears and tails without anesthesia by the millions every single second of every single day.

You're about a quarter prepared for Joe Pietruch's Chain Gang Chase, then, where you play with up to seven friends as convicts, physically chained together, running for freedom in this couch co-op game for Windows, Mac, Linux, and OUYA.

This is a multi-media project on the chain gangs that have been institutionalised as part of a prison system at Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix Arizona.

Ian F. Svenonius is the singer for underground music groups such as the Nation of Ulysses, the Make Up, Weird War, and Chain & the Gang.

Call them the chains gang: They're the top big box tenants in the nation and when it comes to where they choose to locate, whom they will accept as co-tenants and what they will pay, these powerful players call the shots.