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Canon City

  • 1948
  • Approved
  • 1h 22m
ÉVALUATION IMDb
6,5/10
472
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Scott Brady in Canon City (1948)
Film NoirActionCrimeDramaThriller

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueTwelve inmates plan a prison break from the Colorado State Penitentiary but one of them reluctantly joins the group.Twelve inmates plan a prison break from the Colorado State Penitentiary but one of them reluctantly joins the group.Twelve inmates plan a prison break from the Colorado State Penitentiary but one of them reluctantly joins the group.

  • Director
    • Crane Wilbur
  • Writer
    • Crane Wilbur
  • Stars
    • Scott Brady
    • Jeff Corey
    • Whit Bissell
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  • ÉVALUATION IMDb
    6,5/10
    472
    MA NOTE
    • Director
      • Crane Wilbur
    • Writer
      • Crane Wilbur
    • Stars
      • Scott Brady
      • Jeff Corey
      • Whit Bissell
    • 18Commentaires d'utilisateurs
    • 9Commentaires de critiques
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    Rôles principaux53

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    Scott Brady
    Scott Brady
    • Jim Sherbondy
    Jeff Corey
    Jeff Corey
    • Carl Schwartzmiller
    Whit Bissell
    Whit Bissell
    • Heilman
    Stanley Clements
    Stanley Clements
    • New
    Charles Russell
    Charles Russell
    • Tolley
    DeForest Kelley
    DeForest Kelley
    • Smalley
    Ralph Byrd
    Ralph Byrd
    • Officer Gray
    Mabel Paige
    Mabel Paige
    • Mrs. Oliver
    Roy Best
    • Self
    • (as Warden Roy Best)
    Henry Brandon
    Henry Brandon
    • Freeman
    Alfred Linder
    • Lavergne
    Robert Bice
    Robert Bice
    • Morgan
    Ray Bennett
    Ray Bennett
    • Willie Bennett
    Robert Kellard
    Robert Kellard
    • Officer Winston R. Williams
    Richard Irving
    • George Hernandez
    Bud Wolfe
    Bud Wolfe
    • Officer Clark
    Reed Hadley
    Reed Hadley
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Bob Reeves
    Bob Reeves
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    • Director
      • Crane Wilbur
    • Writer
      • Crane Wilbur
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    Commentaires des utilisateurs18

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    dougdoepke

    Entertaining Docu-Drama

    Noirish docu-drama based on 1947 Colorado State Prison break.

    The movie's best parts are the location shots in and around the Colorado State Pen. We get at least a flavor of prison routines and the small town atmosphere. At the same time, the chase sequence at the Royal Gorge provides a scenic, if fictionalized, passage. Then too, ace photographer Alton's studio recreation of the actual winter-time blizzard lends good noirish atmosphere. There's also some tension around convict Schwartzmiller's home invasion; otherwise, the movie's a pretty routine slice of thick ear.

    To me, the screenplay surrounding the break and its aftermath seems muddled. Scenes follow in no particular developmental order. Characters are glimpsed and then dropped. It may be that writer Wilbur felt constrained by the film's factual basis and hurry-up schedule. After all, the movie wrap-up came only four months (January-May) after the breakout itself. (Contrast this rather disjointed narrative with the streamlined smoothness of the fictional, albeit thematically similar, Crashout {1955}.)

    As a youngster growing up a few miles from Canon City, I still have a recollection of the hubbub surrounding the breakout. The name Sherbondi suddenly became a household alarm, though I'm not sure he was the sympathetic character of the screenplay. Guns abruptly sprouted across the Arkansas (river) Valley like deer season. Speaking of those memorable few days, I'm glad the movie re-creates the blizzard that certainly hampered the getaway. That rural part of the state seldom made Denver news, let alone national headlines. So it was a pretty big deal for us living there. (In passing--- Warden Roy Best, featured in the movie, later suffered big professional damage when his liberal use of a whipping post for unruly prisoners got statewide exposure.)

    Choppy narrative and personal recollections aside, the film remains an interesting example of noirish docu-drama, which the results here strongly resemble.
    8ripleys-double

    Great period piece!

    For anyone who enjoys mid-20th century movies, "Canon City" is a perfect choice. I had the good fortune to watch this movie in the wee hours of the morning, when old black-and-white movies are best viewed. Tension abounds in this surprisingly gripping story. That it's based on real events and filmed on location is a plus. If you have ever visited the Royal Gorge Bridge and tram in Colorado, you will enjoy the cat-and-mouse chase scene near the end of the movie. The women are heroic in this film, much more so than the men. With their calming words, warm food, hot cocoa, and hammer-wielding ways, they demonstrate courage in the face of danger. "Star Trek" fans will find a treat in the prisoner known as Smalley. He is played by DeForest Kelley, best known to Trekkies everywhere as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy. "Canon City" is a thoroughly enjoyable film. Catch it on late-night TV if you can.
    6Xploitedyouth

    A Canon City Resident Reviews CANON CITY

    I've lived in Canon City, Colorado for the last five years or so, and the experience of watching the film is a unique, slightly surreal one for me. Not only does the film take place in my tiny little town in the middle of nowhere, it takes place in MY NEIGHBORHOOD! The prison is a mere two blocks from my house, the movie theater three blocks, the Elk's Club where the prison guards eat in the film is right next door to the restaurant where I work. Seeing these familiar landmarks (as well as the fantastic shot of Main Street, which has aged little) gives me a small rush, and makes me inclined to declare CANON CITY an under-appreciated cult classic. Without the haze of nostalgia, I realize that the film, while certainly competent, is one of a series of mostly-forgotten B-pictures, focused on mostly by film nerds like me. I was actually quite impressed with the cinematography and lighting, which was surprisingly sophisticated and compelling, and the film rarely drags, but it just feels kinda same-y. Still, how cool is it that I'm still seeing movies in that old theater that's showing Abbott and Costello in 1948?
    6hitchcockthelegend

    Filmed With The Naked Fury Of Fact!

    Filmed With The Naked Fury Of Fact! So screams the poster for this semi-documentary styled pic. Barely a year previously a dozen prisoners escaped from the Colorado State Penitentiary, Canon City, this is the story of that break and subsequent hunt for the escapees.

    Written and directed by Crane Wilbur, it stars Scott Brady, Jeff Corey and Whit Bissell. Cinematography is by John Alton and Reed Hadley provides the stentorian narration. Plot is exactly what it says on the cover, men escape prison and as a blizzard rages outside they encounter various members of the public whilst trying to escape capture.

    The various convict character splinters, as we follow the principal escapees, makes for suspenseful scenes as they impose themselves on the homes of good honest folk. The moral dilemma heartbeat comes via Brady's Jim Sherbondy, a man who was reluctant to escape but ultimately got caught up in the whirlpool. The characterisations are standard for this type of picture, but well performed all the same, with Corey particularly striking as a weasel type. The various women in the story are well written, proving to be of strong will and minds, while Alton and Wilbur enhance the fatalistic mood with low lights and close ups.

    A decent pic from the pantheon of prison noir, but not a patch on the likes of Brute Force and Riot In Cell Block 11. 6/10
    6evanston_dad

    Prison Break Docudrama from 1948

    "Canon City" (spelled c-a-n-o-n but pronounced as "canyon") is an example of a type of film prominent in the late 1940s: the docudrama. Usually these films had a noirish sensibility and were almost always about gritty subject matter. They were part documentary and part fiction -- filmed on location in actual locales with objective third-party narration, stripped-down production values and a journalistic focus on presenting events matter-of-factly and without superfluous emotion.

    "Canon City" tells the story of a famous prison break from a Colorado penitentiary. The first part of the film gives us a tour of the prison and introduces us to men who were the actual inmates at the time the movie was filmed; the chief warden of the prison likewise plays the warden in the movie. After this extended prologue, actors take over to portray the actual escape and the subsequent manhunt that put families living nearby at risk as the escaped cons used their homes as hideouts.

    The film is very spare and terse, which is not a criticism from me. It's a refreshing break from the Hollywood melodrama that characterized glossier, studio-backed movies at the time. But the film is SO bare bones that it's difficult to feel strongly one way or the other about it. Its bargain-bin look is a nice compliment to the story it's telling, but one can't help but miss the style that artists who came with a higher price tag might have brought to the same material.

    Grade: B

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    • Anecdotes
      Film debut of Scott Brady.
    • Gaffes
      Immediately after the prison break, there's a shot of a crowd of people leaving a movie theatre, with Abbott & Costello in The Noose Hangs High (1948) (another Eagle-Lion release) prominently displayed on the readerboard. Only problem is, the break took place 30 December 1947, and The Noose Hangs High wasn't released until the end of the following April.
    • Connexions
      Referenced in Let's Go to the Movies (1949)

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 30 juin 1948 (United States)
    • Pays d’origine
      • United States
    • Langue
      • English
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Blood on the Snow
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Canon City, Colorado, États-Unis
    • société de production
      • Bryan Foy Productions
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    • Budget
      • 424 000 $ US (estimation)
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    • Durée
      1 heure 22 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.37 : 1

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