From: Tony Williams
English
SIUC
 The Stallone movie is LOCKUP, I think.
  This is a really diverse and complex subject as all genres all. Since the
MISSING IN ACTION films have been cited, what about some of the following -
THE HANOI HILTON, P.O.W - THE ESCAPE, the TV movie about Robert Garwood
titled THE LAST P.O.W?; THE RACK (with Paul Newman, although the main
focus is the court-martial; HOGAN'S HEROES (TV series); PORRIDGE (the
feature film version of a popular British 70s TV series; THE POT CARRIERS
(a 50s British movie with Paul Massie).
  Didn't Ida Lupino star in a women's prison movie with Audrey Totter
sometime in the 50s? Also don't forget the Linda Blair prison movie made
after THE EXORCIST (title"escapes" also).
  Furthermore, what about the 60s British TV series THE PRISONER which
starred Patrick McGoohan now advising the expectedly dreadful feature
film remake starring either Mel Gibson or Harrison Ford? THE PRISONER was also
the title of a 1954 British film starring Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins, a
whitewash Cold War movie about an anti-semitic Hungarian Cardinal. Also,
Brendan Behan's THE QUARE (?) FELLOW was also filmed re. 1960 with Patrick
McGoohan as a prison warder, a role he would repeat in an upwardly mobile
manner in ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ. In its way, THE PURPLE HEART is also a
"prison" movie dealing with the captured Doolittle's Raiders bombers in
World War Two.
  In fact, the list is endless and acute classfication may be required in
terms of focus.TV movies abound - WOMEN OF SAN QUENTIN (1981), the docudrama d
ealing with Attica, etc, etc. Also Mai Zetterling's British female prison
movie SCRUBBERS.
 Good hunting,
   Tony Williams
 
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