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Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1992.

Notes: Originally released in 1971 (102 mins.);

Summary: An unflinching look at prison life, writer John Herbert’s drama plunges us into a sinister, brutal world where strength and intimidation rule and reason and compassion are laughed at. The central portrait is of a young man called Smitty — sentenced to six months for smoking pot — who quickly learns that self-preservation means becoming the sexual slave to a stonger inmate. Pulled inexorably into the ugliness and hopelessness, Smitty survives. But at what price.

OCLC #: 27197175