Heavy on character and dialogue and with limited sets, this one definitely feels novelesque or theatrical. Like a lot of movies before the 80’s, not much happens. The climax of the movie is Luke eating eggs? Or Luke digging a ditch?
Parallels with The Shawshank Redemption. Prisoner wins over the other prisoners, befriends one specifically, and then escapes. Newman kind of gives the same sort of soft-spoken, smart performance that Robbins gave. Lou Antonio (Koko) in this one reminds me a lot of Gil Bellows (Tommy) in Shawshank.
A few times, you can hear that awful foley sound they used in 70’s movies when people fell to the ground.
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