Lock Up1989

Director
John Flynn

Acters

Sylvester Stallone (Frank Leone)
Donald Sutherland (Warden Drumgoole)
John Amos (Captain Meissner)
Sonny Landham (Chink Weber)
Tom Sizemore (Dallas)
Frank McRae (Eclipse)

How much can a man take…before he gives back?
Frank Leone is an auto mechanic who just wants to play with the neighborhood kids and marry his sweetheart Melissa. But when a bunch of punks kill the old man who took Frank off the streets and acted as his mentor when he was fourteen, Frank seeks out the criminals and beats them up. Frank is arrested and sentenced to six months in a minimum-security prison. Frank figures he’ll serve out his time and marry Melissa, but the fates are against him. Hateful Warden Drumgoole, who has an old score to settle with Frank, has him transferred from the minimum-security prison to a maximum-security hellhole, Gateway Prison. Drumgoole walks ominously through a fetid mist to greet Frank with the words, “Welcome to Gateway, Leone. This is Hell and I’m going to give you a guided tour”…
“For torture and violence freaks, every clank and thud is duly and hyperbolically registered.” – Chicago Reader
“A hard-boiled version of Rocky.” – Empire
“Vicious, violent story set in corrupt prison, starring Stallone and Sutherland.” – Video-Reviewmaster.com