Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames

When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives, who have fled by foot and boat and now have begun to turn on each other.
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“Run convict. Run from the sun. ... the cry is escape now or die!”

The Violent and the Damned (1962) | Trailer
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Allan Lima
Allan Lima