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Clooney did not immediately understand his character and sent the script to his uncle Jack, who lived in Kentucky, asking him to read the entire script into a tape recorder. [28] Unknown to Clooney, in his recording, Jack, a devout Baptist , omitted all instances of the words "damn" and "hell" from the Coens' script, which only became known to ...
The film takes place in 1822 in Tasmania and is loosely based on a true story. A group of transported convicts, suffering brutal treatment at the Sarah Island penal settlement on Van Diemens Land, as Tasmania was then known (until 1856), escape into the wilderness in hopes of reaching the settlements to the east. [3]
The Secret of Convict Lake is a 1951 American Western film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney, Ethel Barrymore and Zachary Scott. [2] The film was a critical and commercial success. The story is fiction, based on legends of Convict Lake, located in the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges of northern California.
Days of Heaven is a 1978 American romantic period drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick, and starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard and Linda Manz. [4] Set in 1916, it tells the story of Bill and Abby, lovers who travel to the Texas Panhandle for work harvesting crops for a wealthy grain farmer.
Convicts is a 1991 film directed by Peter Masterson. It stars Robert Duvall and Lukas Haas . It is based on the Horton Foote 1977 play Convicts which is part of The Orphans' Home Cycle .
William Sadler as Heywood: A member of Red's gang of long-serving convicts [4] [6] Clancy Brown as Byron Hadley: The brutal captain of the prison guards [7] [8] Gil Bellows as Tommy Williams: A young convict imprisoned for burglary in 1965 [4] [9] James Whitmore as Brooks Hatlen: The elderly prison librarian, imprisoned at Shawshank for over ...
Purgatory, also known as Purgatory West of the Pecos, is a 1999 American Western fantasy television film directed by Uli Edel. [1] [2] The film premiered on TNT on January 10, 1999.
Heaven received generally positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 73% approval rating, based on 88 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The story is the weakest link in this gorgeous and well-acted film."