Stallone had other ideas and wrote one of the most outrageous scripts of the '80s. That should have been the end of the story. The Vietnam veteran stood up for his principles and willingly paid the price for resisting disrespect on the home front. John Rambo went to prison at the end of "First Blood" (1982). “Down by Law” (1986)ĭirector Jim Jarmusch offers a bizarre comedic peek at an odd trio of cellmates (played by Tom Waits, John Lurie and Roberto Benigni) who escape a Louisiana jail cell to become buddies on the run in an offbeat netherworld of light and shadow.Sylvester Stallone stars in "Rambo: First Blood Part II." (TriStar Pictures) Digging out, the escape genre's exit of choice, is but one element of a masterful plan that requires negotiating frigid San Francisco Bay. try to foil a cruel warden (Patrick McGoohan). The prisoners are the good guys as Eastwood & Co. It's a battle of San Francisco icons as Clint Eastwood takes a break from "Dirty Harry" punk-busting duties to play an inmate, Frank Morris, who takes the measure of the Rock, the allegedly inescapable island fortress. The seven-part drama, directed by Ben Stiller and starring Patricia Arquette, Benicio del Toro and Paul Dano, is a worthy inductee in the escape-artist hall of fame as it delves into the minutiae of an escape scheme while revealing the fascinating pathology of a self-destructive character triangle. More: Review: Ben Stiller directs a masterpiece in NY prison-break drama 'Escape at Dannemora' Ignore the 2017 remake and watch Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman as safecracker and indefatigable breakout artist Henri “Papillion” Charriere and his prison compatriot, the forger Louis Dega, two unlikely partners in a frequently thwarted effort to get off notorious Devil's Island. The 1993 film squeezes Kimble's escape and effort to find his wife's killer into a taut Chicago thriller memorable for an acidic, Oscar-worthy response from Tommy Lee Jones’ marshal, Sam Gerard, when Harrison Ford’s Kimble proclaims his innocence: “I don’t care.” (A forgettable 2000 TV remake was a time-slot companion to a different kind of breakout: sleeper hit "CSI.") 8. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) is the archetypal innocent man fleeing the law in this '60s anthology that succeeds despite Janssen’s perpetually guilty look, a giveaway for a fugitive. More: The craziest prison escape in decades is now a Showtime miniseries. Stop laughing the first season made for an excellent thriller. This one makes the list for its first and best year, an almost comically complex but mesmerizing story of a man (Wentworth Miller) who goes to jail in order to break out his wrongfully convicted brother (Dominic Purcell) with an intricate set of instructions tattooed on his body. Here’s where "Dannemora" ranks in a dandy dozen of the best films and TV shows that deal with escapes and inmates on the run (You can’t go wrong with any of them.): 12. “Dannemora,” based on a daring 2015 breakout that captured the nation’s attention, follows two men (who escape from an upstate New York prison with the help of a female employee before heading on an ill-fated run from authorities. (To be honest, we don’t need much of an excuse.) The arrival of Showtime’s “Escape at Dannemora” (Sunday, 10 EST/PST) provides a great opportunity to look at a thrilling entertainment genre, the prison-escape drama.
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