Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "miserable-chain-gang-conditions"

1. Cool Hand Luke (1967)

GP | 127 min | Crime, Drama

A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon

Votes: 188,596 | Gross: $16.22M

2. I Live for Your Death (1968)

R | 94 min | Western

Mike Sturges and his younger brother, Roy, are sentenced to Yuma Penitentiary on a trumped-up train robbery charge. Both endure cruel treatment before Mike escapes to extract revenge on their enemies.

Director: Camillo Bazzoni | Stars: Steve Reeves, Wayde Preston, Guido Lollobrigida, Mimmo Palmara

Votes: 421

3. Ambush at Dark Canyon (2012)

R | 90 min | Drama, Western

U.S. Marshall Duke Donovan is imprisoned, accused of being an accomplice in a bank robbery. After discovering that his partner is planning to kill his wife, he must escape prison in time to save his wife and clear his name.

Director: Dustin Rikert | Stars: Ernie Hudson, Sydney Penny, Courtney Gains, Andrew W. Walker

Votes: 517

4. Chain Gang Women (1971)

R | 85 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A murderer escapes from a chain gang, forces his co-inmate to go along, and aggressively rapes the latter's girlfriend. The desperate duo next invades the home of an older farmer and his teenage wife.

Director: Lee Frost | Stars: Michael Stearns, Robert Lott, Barbara Mills, Linda York

Votes: 296 | Gross: $0.04M

5. Hell's Highway (1932)

Passed | 62 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Chain gang prisoners forced to construct a "liberty highway" for their overseer chasten under his brutal stewardship, causing Duke Ellis to mastermind a mass riot.

Directors: Rowland Brown, John Cromwell | Stars: Richard Dix, Rochelle Hudson, Tom Brown, C. Henry Gordon

Votes: 822

6. Devil's Canyon (1953)

Approved | 92 min | Western

In 1897 Arizona, an ex-marshal is sent to the territorial prison where many of his enemies, among guards and inmates alike, are eager for a chance at payback.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson, Stephen McNally, Arthur Hunnicutt

Votes: 487

7. Chain Gang (1950)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Douglas Kennedy, Marjorie Lord, Emory Parnell, William 'Bill' Phillips

Votes: 109

8. The Honor System (1917)

100 min | Drama

A man is convicted unjustly of a crime and then subjected to inhumane torment in the Yuma Territorial Prison in the Arizona Territory, run by corrupt administrators.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Milton Sills, Cora Drew, James A. Marcus, Arthur Mackley

Votes: 20

9. Life in a Western Penitentiary (1914)

Documentary, Western

A documentary that takes viewers inside the Yuma Territorial Prison in the Arizona Territory.

10. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: The Last Stagecoach Robbery (1964)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

Pearl talks her boyfriend into robbing the stage coach that travels between Globe and Florence, Arizona.

Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Anne Francis, Jesse Pearson, Bill Zuckert, Perry Cook

Votes: 32