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Convicts 4, also known as Reprieve, is a 1962 American neo noir crime film starring Ben Gazzara and directed by Millard Kaufman. The film is a fictionalized version of the life of death row convict John Resko, who wrote his autobiography: Reprieve.
With Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston, Vincent Price. After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko (Ben Gazzara) is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora Prison where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Millard Kaufman
- 1963-02-07
After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.
- Millard Kaufman
- 105 min
- 8
Convicts 4 posits a situation in which all of these grievances have been addressed, and yet the essential injustice remains. Let the Stuart Whitmans of the world implement all their reforms-you are still left with the fundamental inhumanity of putting men into cages.
When his demise sentence is converted to life in jail, John Resko (Ben Gazzara) is altered from Sing-Sing to Dannemora Prison where, with the assistance of a humane jail guard, he becomes a transformed man and a prosperous painter.
- Millard Kaufman
John (Ben Gazzara) is on death row at Sing Sing for murder. In December 1930, he killed a toy store shopkeeper (Arthur Malet) over a teddy bear he wanted to get as a Christmas present for his two-year-old daughter, Cathy, but for which he could not pay.
Overview. After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.
