One of the best prison movies ever. This movie combines race, prison life, freedom and friendship that crosses cultural boundaries and norms in America before the Civil Rights Act was passed.
Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier are chained together and escape after a prison bus accident. Curtis and Poitier learn to depend and eventually trust each other while they are chained together during their escape.
This is one of the best movies ever made.
Starring Clint Eastwood and based on a true story, this movie is about the only escape from Alcatraz by 3 convicts.
Their bodies were never found, and no trace of them on the mainland. No one really knows if they made it or not. If they did make it, they’d be in their 80’s by now.
Chained Heat (1983) Linda Blair, Sybil Danning, Henry Silva, and John Vernon (Dean Wormer from Animal House) lead the cast which has Linda Blair making our head spin by going to prison for an accidental murder. This film has everything a prison film buff could want including prison riots, fights, torture and of course sex.
This quote from http://www. imdb.com says it best
“The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are sadistic crack-selling lesbian rapists and the guards and warden are no better. Racial tensions are high as the inmates is divided into two factions, blacks and whites, who must either join together against the management or kill each other trying. A sleazy blend of sexploitation and blaxploitation make this movie a real winner.”
I can’t say it any better myself
We couldn’t have Prison Movie Month without some Women Prison Movies. This one is from 1982 and stars Amy Madigan.
Based on a true story, Amy plays Terry Jean Moore who gets busted for participating in an armed robbery and gets sent to prison. While in prison, she gets it on with a Prison Guard played by Beau Bridges and gets pregnant. The story involves her fight to have and keep the baby while being in prison.
Look for Mackenzie Phillips who plays a great role as J. J. She plays a fantastic role as a butch who befriends Terry Jean Moore.
This movie has everything for a Prison Movie Afficionado including fights, as well as sex.
One of the best prison movies ever. Paul Newman plays Luke who while drunk gets busted for cutting off parking meters with a pipe cutter to get change for a soda.
So begins his adventure on a Chain Gang in the rural south.
One of the most famous movies lines that has been parodied to the end of time is from this movie. Luke refuses to break or conform and is constantly getting beaten and thrown into the cooler. The Warden gives the line “What we have here is a failure to communicate.”
George Kennedy won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor in this movie.
The egg eating scene is classic where Luke eats 50 hard-boiled eggs.
Hands down one of the best prison movies ever made. If you have not seen Cool Hand Luke it is a must see.
Is it me, or is does Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent always seem to be involved with the best whack scenes. Either Pesci whacks Vincent (Goodfellas), or Vincent whacks Pesci.
Today we feature one of the best scenes ever filmed. Why is it so good? Because it is based on a true story of Tony Spilotro. Tony was sent to Las Vegas starting in the 1970’s to protect the Chicago Casino interests and insure money was flowing back to the bosses from their “Investment.”
Tony’s activities got out of hand over time and the order was given. The Movie Casino is loosely based on this. But I remember when the bodies of the Spilotro brothers were found in an Indiana cornfield not too far from Chicago.
One of the things that gets me is how real this scene feels.
My brother lives in Las Vegas and knows many people who were around from back then. My brother told me that Tony Spilotro was one of the nicest people in the world as long as you didn’t owe him money. Even if you owed him a nickel, he’d be after you and on you until you paid up & it could get very ugly very fast.
The power of Twitter knows no bounds. We are pleased to announce a mutual partnership with contractflicks.com. We will be exchanging links and profiling features from each other’s sites.
One of the most impressive thing about their site is they are able to get exclusive interviews from players in the movie genre.
We are pleased to welcome Contractflicks to the family.
Below is an interview of Vinnie Vella. Vinnie played Artie Piscano in Casino.
John Travolta was nominated for an Academy Award for his role of Vinnie Vega in Pulp Fiction. Samuel Jackson played his partner, Jules Winnfield. To me, Jackson was the better actor in this movie and should have gotten the nomination.
This classic hit scene involves Jules (Jackson) and Vinnie (Travolta) confronting Brett (Frank Whaley) who has ripped off Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), they have come to collect and eliminate Brett and his colleagues.
It is this scene, in my opinion, that should have given Jackson the Academy Award nomination. The diner scene also added to his stature as an excellent actor.
Ezekiel 25:17
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
Watch carefully as they shoot Brett. Jules and Vinnie ar estanding across from each other, one mis-fire and the other is a goner.
Pulp Fiction Haiku – Jules quotes the bible / That is a tasty burger / Execution looms
In Chicago, this time of year, everyone has cabin fever. We’ve had frigid weather since before Thanksgiving and you are stuck inside after work (if you are working at all). We tend to go a little crazy itching for the weather to change.
It is with this mood that we bring you Whack Month at mobflix.
Frank Vincent (Billy Batts) and Joe Pesci (Tommy) have an altercation that doesn’t end so well for Billy Batts. Billy, a made man, comes home from prison after 6 years and insult Tommy. Tommy used to be a shoe shine boy, and Billy wont let him live it down. Tommy reacts by whacking Billy. One of the best whack scenes ever filmed.
