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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Film-Noir /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Jules Dassin
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Actors:
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Burt Lancaster,
Hume Cronyn,
Charles Bickford,
Yvonne De Carlo,
Ann Blyth,
Ella Raines,
Anita Colby,
Sam Levene,
Jeff Corey,
John Hoyt
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Duration:
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98 min.
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Rating:
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(7.7/10)21
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Plot Summary:
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At packed Westgate Penitentiary, where barbarity and apprehension are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and primary prisoners, the least contented trusty is bully boy, isolated-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in consummate power. After whole infraction too uncountable, Joe and his chamber-mates are issue on the dreaded impair pipe factor; prompting an baffle scheme that has every happen of turning into a bloodbath.
In the Westgate Penitentiary, the Warden A. J. Barden is a frail chain, and the institution is ... as a matter of fact ruled next to the pushy and brutish Captain Munsey, who uses ferocity, venerate and treachery to control the prisoners. After the suicide of Tom Lister, one of the inmates of chamber R17, provoked by Captain Munsey, the prisoners loses their privileges and rest of the group of cell R-17 leaded at hand Joe Collins is sent to hard and insalubrious fashion in the sap spot. Joe uses a successful master plan of war worrisome to escape, attacking the tower of the penitentiary from the outside with his men, and from interior with the team leaded by the leader Gallagher. How, the arrangement fails, ending in a blood-letting.Read more Less
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