Posts Tagged ‘chain-gang’



O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Music
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Clooney, George | Hunter, Holly | Turturro, John | Root, Stephen | Goodman, John | Durning, Charles
Directors: Coen, Joel
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Loosely based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bankrobber George ‘Babyface’ Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that “the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find.”

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Monday, October 6th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Newman, Paul | Kennedy, George | Cannon, J.D. | Antonio, Lou | Drivas, Robert | Martin, Strother | James, Clifton | Woodward, Morgan | Askew, Luke | Cavell, Marc | Davalos, Richard | Donner, Robert | Warren Finnerty | Hopper, Dennis | McLiam, John
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Luke is sent to a prison camp, where he gets a reputation as a hard man. The head of the gang hates him, and tries to break him by beating him up. It doesn’t work, and he gains respect. His mother dies, and he escapes, but is caught, escapes again, and is caught again. Will the camp bosses ever break him ?

Take the Money and Run (1969)

Friday, February 16th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Margolin, Janet | Hillaire, Marcel | Hyde, Jacquelyn | Chapman, Lonny | Merlin, Jan | Anderson, James | Beck, Jackson | Storm, Howard | Gordon, Mark | Murphy, Micil | Moskowitz, Minnow | Jacobson, Nate | Bauer, Grace | Leff, Henry
Directors: Allen, Woody
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This photograph is presented as a documentary on the being of an unqualified, petty villainous called Virgil Starkwell, played near Woody Allen. It describes the original childhood and young womanhood of Virgil, his insolvency at a tuneful career, and his fixation with bank robberies. The blur uses a participation over account and interviews with his house, friends and acquaintances.