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  2. Category:Films about prison escapes - Wikipedia

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    Escape (1948 film) Escape from Alcatraz (film) Escape from Fort Bravo; Escape from New York; Escape from Planet Earth; Escape from Pretoria; Escape from Segovia; Escape from Sobibor; Escape Plan (film) Escape Plan 2: Hades; Escape Plan: The Extractors; Eskapo; Eternity in Flames

  3. List of prison films - Wikipedia

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    Additional discussion related to this cleanup effort can be found at Talk:List of prison films#Post-rescope content cleanup. ( August 2021 ) This is a list of prison films — films which are primarily concerned with prison life or prison escape or have at least one memorable prison scene.

  4. Brute Force (1947 film) - Wikipedia

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    The staff at Variety magazine gave the film a positive review, writing, "A closeup on prison life and prison methods, Brute Force is a showmanly mixture of gangster melodramatics, sociological exposition, and sex...The s.a. elements are plausible and realistic, well within the bounds, but always pointing up the femme fatale.

  5. Category:American prison films - Wikipedia

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    American prison films, a film genre concerned with prison life and often prison escape. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.

  6. Netflix rebroadcast of prison escape series revives interest ...

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    Netflix has brought back a 2018 series called 'Escape at Dannemora' and created a burst of interest in a New York jailbreak with a unique feature -- the prisoners had inside help.

  7. The Hole (1960 film) - Wikipedia

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    The film is based on a true event concerning five prison inmates in La Santé Prison in France in 1947. Becker, who died just weeks after shooting had wrapped, cast mostly non-actors for the main roles, including one man (Jean Keraudy) who was actually involved in the 1947 escape attempt, and who introduces the film. [ 1 ]

  8. Alcatraz Island in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    : Scooby and the gang investigate Alcatraz prison in order to solve the mystery regarding San Franpsycho, the ghost of a former Alcatraz inmate; X-Men: The Last Stand features Alcatraz as the development center for a "cure" for mutants; The 1984 movie Electric Dreams features the two lead characters on a date going on a tour of the facility ...

  9. Pre-Code crime films - Wikipedia

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    Two main types of crime films were released during the period: the gangster picture and the prison film. A triumvirate of gangster pictures were released in the early 1930s—Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932)—which were built on the template created by the first gangster movie, 1927's Underworld. All featured ...