It's Never Too Late to Mend
An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.
An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.
Tod Slaughter
Squire John Meadows
Jack Livesey
Tom Robinson
Marjorie Taylor
Susan Merton
Ian Colin
George Fielding
Laurence Hanray
Lawyer Crawley
D.J. Williams
Farmer Merton
Roy Russell
Rev. Mr. Eden
John Singer
Matthew Josephs
Cecil Bevan
Prison Inspector
An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.
Tod Slaughter is in his element as the 19th century English country squire ("Meadows") who just happens to be the local Justice of the Peace (so sends folks to jail) and who also has his eye on a young lady from the village who in turn has her eye on a local beefcake. "Squire Meadows" contrives to have her beloved deported to the colonies and sets about winning her for himself; meantime having quite a bit of fun making "Mr. Bumble" look like Mother Theresa. The dialogue is a wee bit saggy, but his facial expressions with some help from Lawrence Henry and Jack Livesey make for quite an entertaining little period drama.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
In revolutionary Iran, as fundamentalists tighten their grip on society, a professor secretly gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to read and discuss forbidden classics of Western literature, including Lolita and Pride and Prejudice. Based on the bestselling memoir by Azar Nafisi. A film by Eran Riklis starring Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson), Zar Amir (Holy Spider), and Mina Kavani (No Bears).
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the form of The Ten, a secret group of the elite students. They want Pearce to leave on his own free will, but are prepared to torture him to make it 'his free will'. Will is forced to help Pearce and he is prepared to risk his own career to do so.
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.
A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team