Donald Woods and Carlyle Moor, Jr. get railroaded into prison after being taken
along on a jail break and being held hostage by the man really escaping. They
get five years for the crime.
The film was done by Warner Brotherrs which did that best of all prison films, I Was Fugitive From, A Chain Gang. Road Gang is a smaller more compact version of the classic. It truly delivers the goods.
It's also set in a northern state. I guess that's to sooth any feathers ruffled by the former film showing the north could have brutal prisons also.
Woods who is sometimes bland on the screen is pretty powerful here. Check this one out.
The film was done by Warner Brotherrs which did that best of all prison films, I Was Fugitive From, A Chain Gang. Road Gang is a smaller more compact version of the classic. It truly delivers the goods.
It's also set in a northern state. I guess that's to sooth any feathers ruffled by the former film showing the north could have brutal prisons also.
Woods who is sometimes bland on the screen is pretty powerful here. Check this one out.