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Bookmark this pageThe Jericho Mile (1979)
Director: Michael Mann
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Made for TV, this is part gritty prison movie, part equally gritty fairytale (sympathetic killer obsessively runs to Olympic standard). It's generally upbeat without being remotely wimpish or excessively naive: the walls don't simply fall, and the optimism has to seep through a quasi-documentary context of racism and violence. It's really well acted by pros and inmates, crafted to manipulative perfection; and it beats Rocky every which way. See it, be suckered, be entertained.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Mann
Producer: Tim Zinnemann
Cast: Peter Strauss, Richard Lawson, Roger E Mosley, Brian Dennehy, Geoffrey Lewis, Billy Green Bush, Ed Lauter, Beverly Todd, William Prince full cast
Duration: 97 mins
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