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From thriller to horror and comedy to drama, there's no genre the prison movie hasn't conquered, delivering films as diverse as Stalag 17, The Rock, Chicago, Escape from New York and even Chicken Run. Collecting the greatest tales of incarceration ever committed to film, BLOCKBUSTER Online(TM) presents such timeless classics as Bridge on the River Kwai, The Shawshank Redemption and Papillon, along with more recent hits like Animal and The Longest Yard. Lock yourself in with this little lot.
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 | Stalag 17(1952)
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Billy Wilder's classic resulted in a Best Actor award for Holden. He plays a cynical sergeant in a World War II POW camp, who is suspected of being a ...
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 | Rock, The
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A military madman seizes control of the old Alcatraz prison and threatens to launch deadly poison gas missiles at San Francisco. Only a chemical weapo...
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 | Escape From New York
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New York city exists as a maximum security prison. A daring rescue attempt is conceived when the President's plane crashes inside it's perimeters.
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 | Chicken Run(Animated)(2000)
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Set on a Yorkshire farm in the 1950's, this is the story of a group of repressed chickens who are owned by the evil Mr and Mrs Tweedy. Things start to...
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 | Bridge On The River Kwai, The(1957)
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Set in Burma during World War II, the story follows British P.O.Ws forced to build a large bridge for the Japanese, while Allied commandos are sent to...
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 | Shawshank Redemption, The
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City Banker Andy Dufresne is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder. There he meets Red and also forms friendship...
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 | Animal
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A father's legacy of crime and violence must end for his son's life to begin...
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 | Longest Yard, The
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Adam Sandler remakes this classic underdog film pitting the inmates of a tough prison against their guards in a full on game of American Football.
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Ex professional footballer, Danny Mehan, lands in prison on an assault charge and discovers that he is banged up with a few inmates who haven't forgiv...
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 | Escape From Alcatraz(2001)
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A fascinating account of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison, Alcatraz.
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