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1) Papillon
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Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for 'butterfly' (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly). A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in 'Guiane' (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to...
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Framed for manslaughter after he breaks a story about city corruption, reporter Frank Ross is sure he₂ll prove his innocence. But that₂s not how the system works at Rocky Point Penitentiary. There, cellblock guards are vicious, the jute-mill labor is endless, and the powers Ross fought on the outside conspire to keep him in. Frank₂s hope has turned to hopelessness. And he₂s starting to crack.
4) The rack
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Wounded and weakened in Korean prison camps, GIs descend from the plane that returned them to U.S. soil. It is a time of tearful family reunions. A time of uncertainty about how to help traumatized men. And a time of reckoning: Capt. Edward W. Hall Jr., a silver-star hero and ex-POW, faces trial for collaboration with the enemy.
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"The big prison break is scheduled for Saturday. But superstitious Sing Sing inmate Tommy Gordon won't be busting out: Saturday has always been his hard-luck day. Tommy doesn't know it, but despite the muscle of his mobster connections and the love of his devoted moll, he'll never see a good-luck day again"--Container.
6) The Hook
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During an evacuation in the waning days of the Korean War, three American soldiers retrieve an enemy airman and take him prisoner aboard the civilian ship returning them to their lines. When an order comes down from their superiors to kill the prisoner, the sergeant in charge, Briscoe, orders his men, Dennison and Hackett, to carry out the execution. But first one and then the other refuse to follow the order. A tense stand-off ensues between the...
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Big city blues: A free-wheeling chorus girl hooks up with the ultimate hick.
Hell's highway: A cool convict works the road crew for a corrupt warden.
The cabin in the cotton: Sharecroppers are taken advantage of by the planter who keeps them as virtual slaves.
When ladies meet: A female novelist whose latest work extols the virtues of extramarital amour has a fling with her married publisher.
I sell anything: A Second Avenue auctioneer gets played...
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"Three thousand men are crammed into cells designed to hold 1800. And with the overcrowding comes the hard-time toughness, the mess-hall ritual, the dark agony of the hole, the cigarettes as currency, the hidden shivs, the hushed voices in the yard, the scheming and desperation of men with nothing to lose. Included in this historic triple-feature set are the rarely seen French- and Spanish-language 'parallel production' versions"--Container.
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Finding the strength to pack up her three kids and leave an abusive husband, Marie works her way through college and lands a job with the State of Tennessee. Hard work moves her up to the appointment as the first woman to head the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, but she soon learns that justice and politics don't always mix. When she uncovers a cover-up operation that allows for the Tennessee elite to get a kickback in exchange for letting killers...
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"Surrounded by the conflict in Northern Ireland, Kathleen Quigley has managed to stay clear of it, devoting herself to her three children. Yet in a single moment, the war claims her as one of its living victims. Kathleen is caught in an inescapable political crossfire when her son, actively involved with the IRA, is jailed by the British"--