Convict

The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008)

Actors: Chris Haywood (actor), Adrian Dunbar (actor), Suresh Ayyar (editor), Bill Young (actor), Tony Llewellyn-Jones (actor), Dan Wyllie (actor), Ciarán McMenamin (actor), Nial Fulton (actor), Roger Mason (composer), Nial Fulton (writer), Nial Fulton (producer), Chris Hilton (producer), Bob Franklin (actor), Chris Hilton (actor), Don Hany (actor),

Plot: In 1824 and the British penal colony of VanDiemen's Land is little more than a living hell. Chained to a wall in the darkness of a Hobart cell, Pearce is visited by Father Connolly,the parish priest of the fledgling colony and a fellow Irishman. The harrowing confession Pearce makes, shocks the priest and the British establishment to the core.

Keywords: aborigine, arms-tied-overhead, australia, bare-chested-male-bondage, brutality, cannibal, cannibalism, character-name-in-title, clone, confession
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Horror, Western,
Taglines: Hunger Has No Limit

Quotes:

Alexander Pearce: A Full Belly is prerequisite to all manner of good. Without that, no man knows, what hunger will make him do.

Philip Conolly: Whatever has been said and continues to be said about him, this much is true. Alexander Pearce, an Irish convict incarcerated on Sarah Island, twice managed the inconceivable, the unforgiveable and escaped.

Philip Conolly: Let the wicked forsake his way, the unrighteous man his thoughts, return unto the Lord and He will have mercy.

Philip Conolly: The world is always easier understood held at a distance, with tales of monsters and the like. This is how Alexander is remembered, not as a man. Yet few truer, words have been spoken; a full belly is prerequisite to all manner of good. Without that, no man knows what hunger will make him do.

Philip Conolly: Today shalt thou be with me in paradise. Die condemned on earth, but acceptable to God...

Philip Conolly: Alexander Pearce, this is the last Lord's day which you can expect to spend on earth. When another Sabbath morn shall dawn you will be numbered with the dead; you will be where you can no longer repent, nor seek salvation. You will then be either saved or lost; in Christian Paradise, or unending torment...

Philip Conolly: The ignominious results of disobedience to law and humanity cannot be ignored. Blood must atone blood, society requires it. Pearce's crimes are confirmed and systematic. They can't be met with leniency. Indeed they should be pursued with vengeance and made good with his death. Yet what I have seen is dreadful suffering often drives desperate men to horrific acts. This man, I prepare for the gallows, arrived here depraved, already proficient in distilling lawless habits, but here in Van Dieman's Land took succor amongst the most unprincipled people in the universe. A wicked and perverse generation addicted to adultery, blasphemy, idleness, malice, dishonesty and drunkenness. A recalcitrant amongst reprobates, Pearce was sent to Sarah Island, a place of secondary punishment. If flogging can school a man, Pearce should be principled for two thousand lashes were applied to his back, more than any man before or since. Instead he absconded. He witnessed murders, murdered himself, escaped and murdered again. He has eaten human flesh. He is a beast made mad by beatings. He will die here, in a strange land, alone, caged, having learnt nothing but pain, piss, shit, blood and death. It's inhuman from start to finish. I'm sickened by it. But yes I offer him comfort as he awaits death at His Majesty's pleasure. I do it for fear Mrs Brown.

Philip Conolly: We're Irish, We were born hungry. God spare this colony the famines of Ireland. A whole country's crops failing. Absentee landlords without a degree of mercy. Orphans. Jesus, Mary and Joseph. But hunger's never been a reason to eat another man.

Alexander Pearce: Try to kill a man, he'll either die, or put up fight. That's how it is. That's what happened.

Alexander Pearce: When it came time there was only panic. We took our bread but it was baked to rot. I had the thought we'd forage but God never put down food out there, no animals, nor anything in the ground. This is a hollow land. That's what we walked into, eight of us...

Laitakaupungin valot (2006)

Actors: Tommi Korpela (actor), Aki Kaurismäki (director), Jan-Eric Nyström (miscellaneous crew), Aki Kaurismäki (editor), Kati Outinen (actress), Aki Kaurismäki (producer), Pertti Sveholm (actor), Matti Onnismaa (actor), Aki Kaurismäki (writer), Aarre Karén (actor), Sulevi Peltola (actor), Antti Reini (actor), Juhani Niemelä (actor), Marja Packalén (actress), Ilkka Koivula (actor),

Plot: Koistenin is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He's a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near his work. Out of the blue, a young sophisticated blonde woman attaches herself to Koistenin. He thinks of her as his girlfriend, he takes her on her rounds. She's in league with a crook who's planning a jewel robbery, and Koistenin is their patsy. Will he ever wise up?

Keywords: betrayal, big-city, burglary, café, femme-fatale, frame-up, grill, jewels, loneliness, neo-noir
Genres: Crime, Drama,

Quotes:

Shift Manager: And what was your name?::Koistinen: Koistinen. Just like before.

Bank Manager: [Bank manager is reviewing Koistinen's application for a small-business loan] Tell me, Koistinen... Are you some kind of comedian?::Koistinen: Why?::Bank Manager: Did you come to cheer us up? What are these papers? A trade school diploma... Did you think it will give you a loan of two hundred thousand - without any security, any guarantors?::Koistinen: I'll guarantee it myself, until the company gets going and...::Koistinen: [Interrupting him] Guarantees from trash like you are worthless.::Koistinen: But I've got an account here.::Bank Manager: I won't even take your application further. It's rejected. You're only wasting my time and yours. Go away.

Mirja: [Worried that Koistinen will squeal] He'll talk. He'll tell them about me.::Lindholm: Koistinen will never betray you. He's loyal as a dog, a sentimental fool. My genius lies in understanding that.

Reis Bey (1990)

Actors: Murat Soydan (actor), Sümer Tilmaç (actor), Nevin Aypar (actress), Haluk Kurtoglu (actor), Mesut Uçakan (writer), Mesut Uçakan (director), Ümit Acar (actor), Özkan Turgay (composer), Necip Fazil Kisakürek (writer), Ali Moroglu (producer), Saritas Koral (composer),

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Mercy...

E Dio disse a Caino (1970)

Actors: Antonio Margheriti (director), Nella Nannuzzi (editor), Carlo Savina (composer), Mario Giorsi (costume designer), Luciano Pigozzi (actor), Peter Carsten (producer), Antonio Margheriti (writer), Antonio Cantafora (actor), Klaus Kinski (actor), Peter Carsten (actor), Luigi Bonos (actor), Furio Meniconi (actor), Giacomo Furia (actor), Osiride Pevarello (actor), Renzo Pevarello (actor),

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Western,

Chain Gang (1950)

Actors: Stanley Blystone (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Benny Burt (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Harry Cheshire (actor), James Conaty (actor), George Eldredge (actor), William Fawcett (actor), Eddie Foster (actor), Thurston Hall (actor), John Hart (actor), Don C. Harvey (actor), Charles Horvath (actor), Douglas Kennedy (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor),

Plot: Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts (Douglas Kennedy), masquerades as a prison guard and gets a job attached to the chain gang. Using a tiny camera in the shape of a cigarette lighter, he takes pictures of and documents the miserable conditions. The sadist guard captain, Captain Duncan (Emory Parnell), learns about Cliff's activities and has him beaten by the other guards. Roberts escapes to write his expose that brings about some prison reforms.

Keywords: bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, bloodhound, camera-in-cigarette-lighter, chain-gang, cigarette-smoking, convertible, fistfight, leg-iron, lunch-counter
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: It was legal murder until a reporter and his girl dared to get the inside story!

Quotes:

Capt. Duncan: We have ways of making you sweat here.

Capt. Duncan: Maybe if you mess him up a little, he'll talk.

Capt. Duncan: Cold? A night in the sweat-box will fix that up.

Guard Adams: Better check to see if you've got everything that's coming to you. Should be a couple of uniforms, a rifle, billy-club, and Black Annie.::Cliff Roberts: What's Black Annie?::Guard Adams: Black Annie's a whip.::Cliff Roberts: Guess I'm all fixed then.::Guard Adams: [nodding toward whip] You'll find that your best friend, Granger. These cons are pretty thick but Black Annie's one language they all understand.

Capt. Duncan: [to Cliff Roberts] Three lashes ain't enough. Keep going.

Roy Snead: What did you come here for? Just to torture me some more?::Cliff Roberts: I want to be your friend, Snead.

Deep Valley (1947)

Actors: Willard Robertson (actor), John Alvin (actor), Clancy Cooper (actor), Leonard Bremen (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Dane Clark (actor), William Haade (actor), Henry Hull (actor), Douglas Kennedy (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Ian MacDonald (actor), Rory Mallinson (actor), Wayne Morris (actor), Jack Mower (actor), Harry Strang (actor),

Plot: Uneducated and poor, Libby lives a sheltered life in a broken down shack with her unloving parents. When a work crew of San Quentin convicts arrives to put in a new road, she takes an interest in Barry, a wild and uncontrollable young man. Despite the advances of upstanding engineer Jeff Barker, Libby opts for Barry and helps hide him when he escapes. However, with the posse hunting she can't hide him forever.

Keywords: based-on-novel, fugitive, love, man-hunt, orchestral-music-score, stuttering
Genres: Drama,

Fugitive at Large (1939)

Actors: Dwight Caldwell (editor), Leon Ames (actor), Lewis D. Collins (director), Ernie Adams (actor), Donald Douglas (actor), Stanley Fields (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), Weldon Heyburn (actor), Arthur Hohl (actor), Jack Holt (actor), Jack Holt (actor), Cy Kendall (actor), Edward LeSaint (actor), Dick Rush (actor), Hal Taliaferro (actor),

Plot: George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because the daring holdup is successful because the gang leader, Tom Farrow , is an exact-double for Storm. Eye-witnesses testify that the gang leader was the company's most-trusted construction engineer George Storm. The latter has no alibi as Tom Farrow has sent his wife, Patricia Farrow , over to distract Storm during the holdup. Storm is convicted and sent to prison.

Keywords: 1930s, alibi, archive-footage, b-movie, chain-gang, choir, cigarette-smoking, circumstantial-evidence, construction, convict
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: Get Out The Bloodhounds! The Chain Gang's Busted Loose! Twenty Years At Hard Labor!

Rio (1939)

Actors: Eddy Chandler (actor), George Davis (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Henry Armetta (actor), Leo Carrillo (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Franco Corsaro (actor), Paul Bryar (actor), Robert Cummings (actor), Sidney D'Albrook (actor), Martin Faust (actor),

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir,
Taglines: Exiles From Life...Fugitives From Love

Those High Grey Walls (1939)

Actors: Steve Clark (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Jack Chapin (actor), Harry A. Bailey (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), William Bakewell (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Stanley Brown (actor), Griff Barnett (actor), Burr Caruth (actor), Walter Connolly (actor),

Plot: DR. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police. A man, whom he had brought into the world many years before. At Filmore prison he is assigned to work in the jute mill after the prison doctor, Frank Norton, spurned his request to work in the hospital. "Lindy" Lindstron, MacAuley's co-worker in the mill, has a suddenly heart attack and Dr. Norton declares him beyond help. MacAuley administers adrenalin and Lindstrom recovers. News of the recovery spreads and MacAuley is besieged by fellow convicts with real and imaginary ills, and Norton requests his transfer to the hospital. Lindstrom, suffering greatly, begs MacAuley to give him an overdose of sedative, and offers him $10,000 he claims to have hidden "outside." MacAuley refuses, but is so touched by Lindstrom's agony that he talks over the possibility of a mercy death with Norton. Nightingale, a prison trusty, has overheard Lindstrom's request and he promises to obtain the sedative in return for the $10,000. The next day, Lindstrom is found dead. Norton, who scoffed at MacAuley's request, believes that MacAuley gave Lindstrom the fatal dose.

Keywords: 1930s, adrenaline, agony, arrest, b-movie, baggage-handler, bribe, bullet-removal, color-in-title, convict
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: FROM A MAN IN WHITE...TO A "CON" IN STRIPES! (original poster-all caps)

The Whole Town's Talking (1935)

Actors: Eddy Chandler (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Eddie Baker (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), Edward Brophy (actor), Joseph E. Bernard (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Harry Bowen (actor), Ed Brady (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Ivan Christy (actor),

Plot: Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.

Keywords: african-american, black-cat, bookkeeper, bound-and-gagged, cigar-smoking, city-room, criminal, deception, detective, district-attorney
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama,

Quotes:

Arthur Ferguson Jones: You know something, a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Miss Clark: [to her co-workers] So long, slaves!

Miss Clark: [referring to Jones] I always told you that rabbit had something.