Sentences with phrase «southern chain gang»

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.

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).

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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).