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Pages in category "Films about prison escapes" The following 107 pages are in this category, out of 107 total. ... Escape (1948 film) Escape from Alcatraz (film)
Additional discussion related to this cleanup effort can be found at Talk:List of prison films#Post-rescope content cleanup. ( August 2021 ) This is a list of prison films — films which are primarily concerned with prison life or prison escape or have at least one memorable prison scene.
Escape from Pretoria is a 2020 prison film co-written and directed by Francis Annan, based on the real-life prison escape by three political prisoners in South Africa in 1979, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Daniel Webber. It is based on the 2003 book Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison by Tim Jenkin, one of the escapees.
A prison film is a film genre concerned with prison life and often prison escape.These films range from acclaimed dramas examining the nature of prisons, such as A Man Escaped, Cool Hand Luke, Midnight Express, Brubaker, Escape from Alcatraz, The Shawshank Redemption, and Kiss of the Spider Woman to actioners like Lock Up and Undisputed, and even comedies satirizing the genre like Stir Crazy ...
In the Libby Prison escape, during the American Civil War, over 109 Union POWs broke out of a building at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia on the night between 9 and 10 February 1864. Fifty-nine of the 109 prisoners successfully made it back to the Union lines; two were drowned in the nearby James River , and forty-eight were recaptured.
The Escape Plan film series, [1] consists of American prison action-thrillers based on characters created by Miles Chapman and Arnell Jesko.The series is centered on Ray Breslin, a security analyst and escape artist who helps design supermax prisons by posing as an inmate to find their flaws; later films center on his security and hostage rescue firm.
Former prosecutor Ray Breslin is the founder and co-owner of Breslin-Clark, a security firm specializing in testing the security measures of supermax prisons.Posing as an inmate to study facilities from within and exploit their weaknesses to escape, Breslin is driven by the murders of his wife and child by an escaped convict he had successfully prosecuted, and has garnered a reputation as the ...
American prison films, a film genre concerned with prison life and often prison escape. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.