We've got a failure to communicate: Best prison film

Started by celedhring, August 22, 2016, 07:03:38 PM

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What's the best movie set inside a prison or similar facility?

The Shawshank Redemption
9 (33.3%)
Cool Hand Luke
2 (7.4%)
Midnight Express
3 (11.1%)
The Great Escape
5 (18.5%)
Escape From Alcatraz
1 (3.7%)
The Green Mile
1 (3.7%)
Papillon
3 (11.1%)
Dead Man Walking
0 (0%)
Hunger
0 (0%)
In The Name of the Father
0 (0%)
Write-in (name)
3 (11.1%)

Total Members Voted: 27

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Agelastus

#30
August 23, 2016, 02:46:44 PM
Write in for "Escape to Victory" given the real soft-spot I have for it and it seems to fit the conditions for the poll.

Feel free to laugh at my lack of taste.
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The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Duque de Bragança

#31
August 23, 2016, 04:57:22 PM Last Edit: August 24, 2016, 12:42:41 AM by Duque de Bragança
Quote from: Agelastus on August 23, 2016, 02:46:44 PM
Write in for "Escape to Victory" given the real soft-spot I have for it and it seems to fit the conditions for the poll.

Feel free to laugh at my lack of taste.

Some Yanks may also complain about your choice of the "European" title.  :P

Savonarola

#32
August 23, 2016, 05:17:49 PM
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

#33
August 23, 2016, 05:22:27 PM
Quote from: Tyr on August 23, 2016, 02:00:35 AM
There's a reason the Great Escape is a cultural cornerstone

Love the Cooler King, but I think I'd put A Man Escaped or The Grand Illusion ahead of that for a POW movie (maybe even Stalag 17.)
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Ed Anger

#34
August 23, 2016, 08:18:59 PM
I forgot about Stalag 17. Time for a rewatch.  :)
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celedhring

#35
August 24, 2016, 03:35:57 AM
Stalag 17 is great. Gotta run a POW movie poll at some point, too.  :hmm:

When I was a kid I was addicted to "Colditz". I think that was the first WWII-anything I saw.

lustindarkness

#36
August 24, 2016, 08:40:46 AM
Some great films here, not sure I can decide. Maybe I have to re-watch some of these.
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Brazen

#37
August 24, 2016, 10:52:01 AM
Chicken Run  :P

CountDeMoney

#38
August 24, 2016, 11:06:32 AM

Malthus

#39
August 24, 2016, 11:08:54 AM
Quote from: Brazen on August 24, 2016, 10:52:01 AM
Chicken Run  :P

Isn't that covered under The Great Escape?  ;)
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