Twelve convicts, serving life sentences, are recruited for a suicidal commando raid in Robert Aldrich's film. Louis Malle directed this film, his last, about a group of actors rehearsing an adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya . Based on a true story, the film methodically follows Eastwood's efforts. Directed by Don Siegel. With Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, Sam Elliott and many others.
Prisoners stage such a powerful revolt that army tanks have to be called in.
Gregory La Cava directed. Unsettling film noir , perhaps emblematic of the genre, about a man convicted of a murder and the search for an elusive witness. With Franchot Tone, directed by Robert Siodmak. Marilyn Monroe and Charles Coburn co-star. The first, and perhaps least ironic, of Douglas Sirk's extraordinary 1950s melodramas, starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson.