Castle on the Hudson

Feb 17, 1940

1h 17m

★ 6.8

The big John Garfield thrill !

Overview

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Tommy Gordon

John Garfield

Kay Manners

Ann Sheridan

Warden Walter Long

Pat O’Brien

Steve Rockford

Burgess Meredith

District Attorney

Henry O'Neill

Ed Crowley

Jerome Cowan

Mike Cagle

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Prison Chaplain

John Litel

Ann Rockford

Margot Stevenson

Ragan

Willard Robertson

Black Jack

Edward Pawley

Pete

Billy Wayne

His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a maximum security prison, he meets a revolutionary who changes his life. Now a reformed man, James is released only to find that his own son has assumed a life of crime and violence. Can a father haunted by his past redeem his family from the very streets he created, or will he be forced to make the ultimate sacrifice?

5.3

Blues Brothers 2000

Feb 5, 1998

Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops.

7.0

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Nov 7, 1963

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

6.0

Another 48 Hrs.

Jun 8, 1990

For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day.

7.4

The Life of David Gale

Feb 21, 2003

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

6.5

Instinct

Jun 4, 1999

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.

5.9

3000 Miles to Graceland

Feb 23, 2001

It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. With $3.2 million at stake, the Marshals Service closing in, Michael must track down Murphy.

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3.0

The Third Eye

Jan 1, 2001

Michael is supposed to go to prison for 18 months, but escapes from the police officer. On the run, he meets Malika, who has also committed "stupid things." Together, they flee from the "third eye" of her mother, who, according to Malika, can see into the distance.

7.8

The King of Comedy

Dec 18, 1982

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

8.7

The Shawshank Redemption

Sep 23, 1994

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

7.5

Bang, Boom, Bang

Aug 26, 1999

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth.

7.9

La Strada

Sep 23, 1954

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.

5.8

Bandyta

Nov 7, 1997

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside the facility.

6.3

Johnny Handsome

Sep 12, 1989

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.

7.7

The Blues Brothers

Jun 16, 1980

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

4.8

Visiting Ours

Feb 22, 2017

Every month, women go to a prison on the outskirts of Paris to visit their loved ones: sons, fathers, brothers, partners. They wait in the summer heat. As they move through security checks, relationships are made and broken, tongues loosen, tension mounts… until finally a riot erupts behind bars.

6.7

Ruby & Quentin

Oct 22, 2003

After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin, Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.

7.2

Murder in the First

Jan 20, 1995

A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.

7.6

Carandiru

Mar 21, 2003

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.

5.8

Rivals

Feb 6, 2008

The story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favourite.