Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
- prison
- undercover
- liberation of prisoners
- arkansas
- prison warden
- based on true story
- prison brutality
- abuse
- 1960s
- prison farm
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- David Keith — Larry Lee Bullen
- Morgan Freeman — Walter
- Matt Clark — Purcell
- Tim McIntire — Huey Rauch
- Richard Ward — Abraham
- Jon Van Ness — Zaranska
- M. Emmet Walsh — C.P. Woodward
- Albert Salmi — Rory Poke
- Linda Haynes — Carol
- Everett McGill — Caldwell
- Val Avery — Wendel
- Directed
- Stuart Rosenberg
- Written
- W.D. Richter, Arthur A. Ross
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 528 ratings
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
