Castle on the Hudson (1940)
The big John Garfield thrill !
Género : Crimen, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 17M
Director : Anatole Litvak
Escritor : Seton I. Miller, Brown Holmes, Courtney Terrett
Sinopsis
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Rodeo-cum-prison movie about an ageing rodeo star bonding with a young rookie while they both serve time.
After getting sentenced with one month in prison for contempt of court, the lawyer Sbankh tries to take advantage of his jail time to establish many relations, most notably with drug dealer Hassouna,and Salim Abu Zaid, one of the centers of power in the 60s.
Eric Love es un adolescente problemático que ha sido transferido apresuradamente de un instituto de jóvenes delincuentes a una prisión para adultos. Allí se convierte en el candidato ideal para la rehabilitación de su comportamiento, y es admitido en un programa de control de la ira dirigido por el terapeuta de la prisión, Oliver, que trata de ayudar a Eric, a la vez que se ayuda a sí mismo.
A cowboy whose sister has been murdered by a gang of vicious outlaws seeks his revenge. But a venerable old lawman is about to teach the vigilante a lesson about taking the law into one's own hands.
Un hombre es injustamente condenado y enviado a cumplir la condena a una de las peores prisiones del territorio.
El severo juez Alejandro Luque se ve tentado por la sensualidad encarnada en Aurora Ruiz, una prostituta que él condenó a prisión y que ha logrado obsesionarlo. Cegado por la pasión, Luque cometerá una serie de delitos con tal conquistar a la cruel cortesana, sin importarle sacrificar toda una vida de rectitud.
The title is vital, since the bulk of the action consists of a well-dressed man magically producing a series of items to furnish a bare room, culminating in his summoning up a charming lady to share his meal. Hearing the guards approaching, the man reverses the process, ending with a bare room when the two men enter.
A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end with a death sentence. A close-up look at his emotional journey through the trial, imprisonment and beyond.
Dos niños (Holly Deveaux y Christian Martyn) son testigos de un asesinato en un viaje donde realizarán una acampada con un amigo de la familia (Daniel Kash). Cuando los criminales y también hermanos (Purcell y Suplee) comienzan a dar caza a los niños para matarlos e impedir que puedan declarar en su contra, aparece el padre para intentar salvarlos.
Biopic sobre Nelson Mandela, basado en su autobiografía titulada 'Long Walk to Freedom'. Escrita por el reputado guionista William Nicholson ("Gladiator"; "Les Miserables").
Billy Wade (James Brown) is an ex-gunslinger who is approached by his outlaw brother Matt (Robert Karnes), not long out of prison, to help him with a big-time robbery. Matt forces Billy's participation with an offer he cannot refuse, unaware that Billy is actually working on the side of the law.
The topic of this routine, romantic drama is a little unusual - it concerns what some prisoners do when they are allowed out of jail for two weeks before their sentences are up. Rather than receiving some special dispensation, it turns out that in Yugoslavia this was the custom. Most of the time, the men here are engaged in pursuits that forward their relationships with the fairer sex, as might be expected after a long and lonely incarceration. There is nothing particularly profound about their two weeks of liberty, and no deep message in the tale.
A young man who is thrown into jail simply because he displeases a police inspector. But even when he's eventually released, the police continue to persecute him until he feels he has no choice but to become a real criminal.
This delicate and impressive collection of life experiences centers on a group of foreigners -- Chinese, Peruvian, North American, Senegalese, Australians, French -- who are trapped in Brazilian jails.
When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take vengeance on those who wronged her, always staying however within the letter of the law.
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.
Thrown to rot in a narrow and gloomy cell of a hideous Soviet prison, a weary new inmate struggles to come to terms with the new reality. Within the grey cage, an unwelcoming fellow convict cautions the newcomer not to touch the intriguingly mysterious red wooden box which rests on the lower bunk, moreover, not even think of opening it. Why is there so much secrecy about the contents of the box? Could there be hiding the means to his escape?
Una chica de Kansas sobrevive a la masacre de su familia y testifica en contra de su hermano como el asesino. Veinticinco años después será visitada por una sociedad secreta que reclama la inocencia de su hermano. De algún modo, tan sólo reviviendo la tragedia podrá averiguar la verdad.
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.
Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.
