The Chase

Feb 18, 1966

2h 15m

★ 7.1

A breathless explosive story of today!

Overview

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Horizon Pictures

The Chase Trailers

Cast

Sheriff Calder

Marlon Brando

Anna Reeves

Jane Fonda

Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves

Robert Redford

Val Rogers

E.G. Marshall

Ruby Calder

Angie Dickinson

Emily Stewart

Janice Rule

Mrs. Reeves

Miriam Hopkins

Mary Fuller

Martha Hyer

Edwin Stewart

Robert Duvall

Damon Fuller

Richard Bradford

Briggs

Henry Hull

Elizabeth Rogers

Diana Hyland

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

6.9

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7.5

Birdman of Alcatraz

Jul 4, 1962

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.

7.7

Cool Hand Luke

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When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

7.7

The Ox-Bow Incident

Mar 11, 1943

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

7.3

Cape Fear

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Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

6.3

The Way of the Gun

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7.1

Brubaker

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The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

7.7

Mississippi Burning

Dec 8, 1988

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7.3

Down by Law

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A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

0.0

Prison Babies

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Prison crime sexploitation tale of women in prison.

6.4

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4.4

Wild Seed

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A man who escaped from a prison comes to his inmate's village to find his wife, after having been told how wonderful she is. He hides at her place only to find out that she receives "night visits" from the village men. He starts a killing spree, causing panic among the locals.

7.2

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5.3

No Good Deed

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6.5

The Gift

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5.7

The Real McCoy

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2.8

Orgasmo perverso

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3.8

Contrainte par corps

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