
Arnie Judlow, an inmate at San Quentin prison serving a life sentence for murder, devises a daring plan with his wife and his brother Bill to help him escape, part of which involves Bill and Arnie's wife posing as a married couple and moving to a house near the prison. Although the plan appears to go smoothly at first, it soon runs into a few snags--the couple move next door to a suspicious prison guard who knows Arnie and, more importantly, Bill and his brother's wife begin ... (Full plot summary below)
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Arnie Judlow, an inmate at San Quentin prison serving a life sentence for murder, devises a daring plan with his wife and his brother Bill to help him escape, part of which involves Bill and Arnie's wife posing as a married couple and moving to a house near the prison. Although the plan appears to go smoothly at first, it soon runs into a few snags--the couple move next door to a suspicious prison guard who knows Arnie and, more importantly, Bill and his brother's wife begin to find themselves attracted to each other.
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| User ReviewAllan CIt's the prison version of "The Parent Trap" with Jack Palance in the Hayley Mills role. So what do you do if you want to break your identical twin brother out of prison? Switch places with him of course. It's a petty ridiculous premiss for a prison story but it does have a good cast besides Palance that includes the great Timothy Carey, Bill Erwin Edward Platt, and an uncredited Joe Turkel, who modern audiences will know as Lloyd the Bartender from "The Shining" or as Dr. Tyrell from "Blade Runner". |