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Re: Best Prison Films
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Originally posted by Don Cardi: But one f my all time favorites has to be "Brute Force."
SC, Turnbull, TIS, Plaw, or anyone else, do you remember who the actor was who played Capt. Munsey? Hume Cronyn?
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Re: Best Prison Films
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11/07/04 06:41 PM
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Originally posted by Capo de La Cosa Nostra: The Great Escape (1963/Sturges)
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Re: Best Prison Films
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obviously Shawshank Redemption is at the top, but let's not forget thet The Green Mile wasn't so bad. it definatly brought a tear to my eye the first time i saw it in the winter of '99. and honestly i miss that winter. alot of great movies came out. american beauty, and then in february gladiator came out.
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Re: Best Prison Films
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Originally posted by SC: [quote]Originally posted by Don Cardi: [b] But one f my all time favorites has to be "Brute Force."
SC, Turnbull, TIS, Plaw, or anyone else, do you remember who the actor was who played Capt. Munsey? Hume Cronyn? [/b][/quote]You are the man SC!!!!!!! He was a real S.O.B. in that movie, huh? Don Cardi
Don Cardi Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.
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Re: Best Prison Films
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Originally posted by SC: If you're gonna include war prison films you should check out "Stalag 17" and "The Bridge Over the River Kwai". Both are excellent movies.
Also, "White Heat" (with James Cagney) had a very memorable prison scene! As Mr. Soprano mentioned, The Green Mile! How can I forget that one?!? Yes SC, as we discussed before, that prison scene in White Heat is defiantely "classic!" MAaaa! Another great war/prison movie : " The Dirty Dozen." What a cast! Don Cardi
Don Cardi Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.
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Re: Best Prison Films
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11/07/04 08:09 PM
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Originally posted by SC: If you're gonna include war prison films you should check ... "The Bridge Over the River Kwai". It's a very common mistake, but that would be The Bridge On the River Kwai. I was watching a Danish film the other night, Open Hearts, and the subtitles made the same mistake too. I almost jumped through the roof. Mick
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Re: Best Prison Films
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11/07/04 09:48 PM
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Originally posted by Capo de La Cosa Nostra: It's a very common mistake, but that would be The Bridge [b]On the River Kwai.[/b] (said in my best Steve Martin voice): Well, excuuuuuuuse meeeeeeee. :p
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Re: Best Prison Films
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11/07/04 10:07 PM
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I don't like prison films because they're only about hicks or thugs. The scene when Henry was in prison from Goodfellas is the best piece of cinema taking place in a prison.
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Re: Best Prison Films
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11/07/04 10:23 PM
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You all disapoint me.
For John Carpenter fans like me, we can name a couple:
First there is the 70's B classic ASSAULT ON PRECEINT 13 about a small police preceint office in Los Angeles and its 7 occupants(a cop, secretary, notorius deathrow prisoner in Napoleon Wilson, etc.) undersiege from a gang that wants a person inside the building(after he had killed some members of this gang). A film that reeks homages and reverence for movies like RIO BRAVO and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, it is coming out in 2005 as a remake starring Ethan Hawke and Lawrence Fishburne.
Second, though pretty dated in the funky retro-future style that WARRIORS is stuck with, lets not forget the 80's B action favorite ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. In the year 1997(this was made in 1981 after all) Manhattan Island is an enwalled prison for the police state that the nation has become. When Air Force One crashes on this island while on its way for a peace summit, the US government sends in wanted outlaw/former U.S. Special forces soldier "Snake" Plissken(one of Kurt Russell's first roles to escape his Mouse House past with success, methinks) to rescue the strangely British-accented American President played by Donald Pleasance.
Of course I could mention ESCAPE FROM LA and the f*cking awful GHOSTS OF MARS but screw that! However, I enjoyed EFLA despite the editing being all over the place(though its understandable from where people keep telling me that Paramount only gave Carpenter 2 weeks to edit his final cut for the movie). But ya, GHOSTS OF MARS was really really crappy. No wonder Carpenter hasn't directed since that Ice Cube-laced train wreck.
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Re: Best Prison Films
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Originally posted by QTN: Oh and I'm surprised that everyone has forgotten the 70's prison film that put the words "Turkish", "Prisons", "Hell", and "Fear" into the same setence. You know, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS? Duhhhh!! Thats a definite MUST-SEE for anyone wanting to see a great prison movie. (I can't believe I forgot it).
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Re: Best Prison Films
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11/08/04 02:35 PM
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Originally posted by Don Cardi: I love Shawshank Redemption. But one f my all time favorites has to be "Brute Force."
SC, Turnbull, TIS, Plaw, or anyone else, do you remember who the actor was who played Capt. Munsey?
Don Cardi DC, we seem to be on the same wavelength always. "Brute Force" is my all-time favorite prison movie, and I have a weakness for that genre. And SC: Hume Cronyn really showed his acting chops in that film--a little, harmless-looking guy made a totally convincing sadistic prison captain. ("Captain Monsey is now Warden Monsey"--"nyah, nyah, nyah!" Great stuff!) I want to include two others: 1. "Women's Prison" with Ida Lupino (very effective as a brutal, dykey jailer) and Howard Duff, plus an all-star cast of B-movie specialists. Every prison cliche known to man and woman in perfect harmony. Thoroughly enjoyable. Can't miss! 2. "Riot in Cell Block 11" with Neville Brand and Emil Meyer. Prison riot with socially redeeming message. A landmark for the Fifties.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: Best Prison Films
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11/08/04 03:58 PM
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The Shawshank Redemption is a very good movie, but extremely overrated. My personal favorite prison film is Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped.
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Re: Best Prison Films
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11/08/04 04:02 PM
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One of my fav is American History X because it shows us just how prison can change a mans views on life.
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Re: Best Prison Films
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11/08/04 05:21 PM
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I was going to name Midnight Express, but didn't for a number of reasons. It's a well-done movie, but with no redeeming qualities about it; the characters are ALL unlovely, the plot offers no hope whatsoever, and I may be wrong, but I believe it exaggerates the true story somewhat. Still, as I listed Scum, and thought it was horrible, I really should have put Midnight Express up there too.
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