Country: US
Technical: col 142m
Director: Frank Darabont
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
Synopsis:
A banker, wrongly imprisoned for murdering his wife, survives by doing the warden's accounts; meanwhile he meticulously prepares his escape.
Review:
Careful, efficient prison movie with sentimental leanings, a masterly piece of storytelling from a Stephen King novella, which slavishly follows every turn of the book so that when justice finally comes it is a hard heart that fails to be moved. It curiously became something of a sleeper hit on the video shelves and appeared high up a national viewers' top ten in 2001. In retrospect it did more for Freeman's career than it did for Robbins's, and Darabont did the whole thing again with The Green Mile.
Country: US
Technical: col 142m
Director: Frank Darabont
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
Synopsis:
A banker, wrongly imprisoned for murdering his wife, survives by doing the warden's accounts; meanwhile he meticulously prepares his escape.
Review:
Careful, efficient prison movie with sentimental leanings, a masterly piece of storytelling from a Stephen King novella, which slavishly follows every turn of the book so that when justice finally comes it is a hard heart that fails to be moved. It curiously became something of a sleeper hit on the video shelves and appeared high up a national viewers' top ten in 2001. In retrospect it did more for Freeman's career than it did for Robbins's, and Darabont did the whole thing again with The Green Mile.
