Movies tagged as "chain gang"

Cool Hand Luke [1967, USA ] starting from $1.99

"What we've got here is failure to communicate."

Genres: Crime, Drama Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Strother Martin, Clifton James, Morgan Woodward, Luke Askew, Marc Cavell, Richard Davalos, Robert Donner, Warren Finnerty, Dennis Hopper, John McLiam Directors: Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   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 ?

Defiant Ones, The [1958, USA ] starting from $1.99

One of the great ones!

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Charles McGraw, Lon Chaney Jr., King Donovan, Claude Akins, Lawrence Dobkin, Whit Bissell, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, Kevin Coughlin, Cara Williams, Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young, Directors: Stanley Kramer Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck prison accident, they flee and are pursued by the police. While they're chained, the two are dependent on one another. When they eventually get rid of their chains, their hostility has been changed into fellowship and respect.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? [2000, USA, UK, France ] starting from $1.99

Sometimes, you have to lose your way to get back home

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music Actors: George Clooney, Holly Hunter, John Turturro, Stephen Root, John Goodman, Charles Durning, Directors: Joel Coen Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   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."

Take the Money and Run [1969, USA ] starting from $1.99

crime lives!

Genres: Comedy, Crime Actors: Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire, Jacquelyn Hyde, Lonny Chapman, Jan Merlin, James Anderson, Jackson Beck, Howard Storm, Mark Gordon, Micil Murphy, Minnow Moskowitz, Nate Jacobson, Grace Bauer, Henry Leff Directors: Woody Allen, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell, played by Woody Allen. It describes the early childhood and youth of Virgil, his failure at a musical career, and his obsession with bank robberies. The film uses a voice over narrative and interviews with his family, friends and acquaintances.