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Article: `Chains' brims with suspense
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 30, 1987
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The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) (STAR)
Robert Elliot Burns Val Kilmer
Warden Hardy Charles Durning
HBO presents a made-for-cable movie, directed by Daniel Mann and
written by Michael Campus. To be shown from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow on
the HBO pay-cable station.
What is this strange fascination with prison movies?
Nothing sustains interest or curiosity better than a good,
old-fashioned prison yarn, full of the clamor of chains, the
simmering undercurrent of violence and a few brutal guards thrown in
for good measure.
Now, in the grand tradition of "Cool Hand Luke," "Papillon" and
"The Defiant Ones," comes the gripping HBO pay cable movie, "The Man
Who Broke ...