Lock Up Time: Prison Flicks.

[Smokey]

The guards, the bars, the exercise yard and the smell of human animals packed into cages. Welcome to the worlds of celebrated prison movies!

Not in any particular order:

Bad Boys (1983): Sean Penn at his roughest role as he quickly rises through the ranks in the prison.


South Central (1992): Glenn Plummer put in an amazing performance as a father who his son join a gang while he is prison. Once out he try to save his son from the gang, even if it kill him.


There Was a Crooked Man (1970): Kirk Douglas as a prisoner and Henry Fonda as warden match wit on this western territorial prison. The question here is who is more crooked, the prisoner or warden?


Penitentiary (1979): Leon Isaac Kennedy (Too Sweet) fight his way out of prison with his fist. Very raw.....with pictured guy (Half Dead) as his bunk bed mate!


Bird Man of Alcratraz (1962): A Very dark movie. But thanks to Burt Lnacaster, it does endure.


Dead Man Walking (1996): Sean Penn proves once again that he is one of the best actor in Hollywood.


Stalag 17 (1953): The movie that started Hogan’s Hero fever. Easily one of the best POW movie with mix of drama, suspense, anxiety and a twist of comedy.


The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957): Directed by David Lean. Alec Guinness as British Colonel Nicholson is torn between duty and honor.


Runaway Train (1986): Jon Voight is Manny, a prisoner on the run with the warden hot on the trail. A runaway train is his only way out and there is no turning back.

Honorable mention:

Midnight Express (1978) "I hate! I hate you! I hate your nation! And I hate your people!"