Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
- prison
- dying and death
- florida
- based on novel or book
- escape
- loss of loved one
- rebel
- harassment
- imprisonment
- barbed wire
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Harry Dean Stanton — Tramp
- Dennis Hopper — Babalugats
- Lou Antonio — Koko
- Robert Drivas — Loudmouth Steve
- Strother Martin — Captain
- Jo Van Fleet — Arletta
- Clifton James — Carr
- Marc Cavell — Rabbitt
- Richard Davalos — Blind Dick
- Robert Donner — Boss Shorty
- J.D. Cannon — Society Red
- Directed
- Stuart Rosenberg
- Written
- Frank Pierson, Donn Pearce, Hal Dresner
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 1,635 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Jalem Productions
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.
