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A convict serving time comes forward to give the Cold Case unit information about the murder of a policeman, committed years before.
Gilliam's flair for the phantasmagorical works with the script by David and Janet Peoples to play with your head as much as it does with poor James Cole (Willis at his most Steve McQueen-like -- better than McQueen, even!), a time-traveling convict from the future who literally doesn't know whether he's coming or going as a team of scientists keeps sending him back to the wrong eras while trying to prevent a 1995 plague that's deadly to humans but harmless to animals.
Richard Cramer (uncredited) appeared in other L&H flicks, and he is delightfully threatening here as the convict Nick Granger.
The scene I speak of, comes at about the 30 minute mark and involves a dead convict shackled to John Candy.
As the escaped convict who is the only person around who can save Sullivan's life (he is trapped under a pier, and the tide is rising), Ralph Meeker is more energetic than usual.
A dying convict in the state penitentiary reveals that he stole a block of heroin from the car after the shooting.
After they find one they like, we find out that convict Nick Grainger (Richard Cramer) has just escaped...I'll stop there and say this was as good a finale for L & H's longtime home as one could hope for.
It cleverly jumps between future and the past, and the story it tells is about a man named James Cole, a convict, who is sent back to the past to gather information about a man-made virus that wiped out 5 billion of the human population on the planet back in 1996.
So a current convict named James Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent as a "volunteer" to get some samples from above.
In this case, desperation leads to a convict, which leads to her evolution into a mob prototype.
The movie, which is more than a bit sanctimonious, comes alive only in the scenes when Harris is interrogated by the attorney for another convict.
Even a convict wouldn't enjoy this.
Stephen Baldwin, futuristic convict (but he's actually an excessively good guy) gets abandoned on a desolate planet by the futuristic prison people. . .
The same sense of working from first-hand knowledge is omnipresent in this drama about Alain Delon's paroled convict trying to start a new life with the help of prison educator Jean Gabin and almost making a go of it until Michel Bouquet's local flic goes all Inspector Javert on him and does everything in his power to engineer his return to crime.
Riddick, who was just a simple convict in "Pitch Black", is now transformed into something called a Furyan, some sort of super warrior race that was wiped out by the other races or by the big bad Necromongers (what a stupid name!) - after seeing it twice, I still can't figure that one out.
The profound isolation of the family is shortly to come to an end, because one of those California coastal highways is being constructed, with much dynamiting, landslides, and convict labour with picks on the obdurate rocks.
The love-starved and pathetic Lupino falls for an escaped convict, brilliantly portrayed by Dane Clark.
the Forensics are only used to identify chemicals and finger prints CSI is not the only place to use CSI and if they didn't have the Foresics in the show it would be fake, and we should just let out all the criminals as we cant convict them because CSI is the only place to use forensics.
Woman is unjustly jailed while driving cross-country, escapes prison with the help of convict Tommy Lee Jones.
39013, an escaped convict, carries out his revenge on the man who put him in prison, by imprisoning Granville and impersonating him, with the aid of Granville's traitorous aides.
Turkus was an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn who became known to the mob as Mr. Arsenic because of his incorruptibility and ability to convict organized crime figures.
One of the first films produced (but not directed) by Roger Corman is marginally okay tale of convict (John Ireland, who directed) who escapes from prison and then kidnaps Dorothy Malone and uses her and her sports car as a cover for entry into a race that will get him across the border and to freedom.
VD is a convict, who escapes from a jail bus & then helps Rosanna arquette.
An escaped convict protects a widow from greedy land developers who want the property for something.
Along the way the escaped convict falls for the widow and becomes a father figure for her two children.
Some evil men are out to take her land, but Jean-Claude, and escaped convict on the lam, is here to be her savior!
Stanwyck gets about a zillion clues - enough circumstantial evidence to convict O.J. Simpson in front of a sex-starved black female jury - yet she still has doubts.
These eclectic individuals include a vengeful escaped convict whom Bradford put in jail, a meek geeky bank teller who's trying to embezzle $50,000 bucks, a mean, ruthless mobster who also wants to get his grubby paws on the hot loot, a young couple who are planning to get married, and the huffy, overbearing, disapproving father of the bride-to-be.
Vampires, ghouls, a decapitated convict, bad-ass Old West Sheriff and deputies, lost gold, all make for an interesting story, much more than your standard slasher flick.
Rapper NORE plays a decent part as a convict, who looses his head when chased him down off horseback with a cavalry saber!
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