Plot

At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.

At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail; prompting an escape scheme that has every chance of turning into a bloodbath.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

In the Westgate Penitentiary, the Warden A. J. Barden is a weak man, and the institution is actually ruled by the ambitious and sadistic Captain Munsey, who uses violence, fear and treachery to control the prisoners. After the suicide of Tom Lister, one of the inmates of cell R17, provoked by Captain Munsey, the prisoners loses their privileges and rest of the group of cell R-17 leaded by Joe Collins is sent to hard and insalubrious work in the drain pipe. Joe uses a successful strategy of war trying to escape, attacking the tower of the penitentiary from the outside with his men, and from inside with the team leaded by the leader Gallagher. However, the plan fails, ending in a bloodshed.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Joe Collins is a convict in the State penitentiary who decides he's had enough and wants to break out. All of them are fed up with the the Captain of the Guard, Mr. Muncey, who uses both physical and psychological torture to get his way with the men. When Joe and his cell mates are assigned to work in the drainpipe located just outside the prison gate, Joe uses a tactic from the US military during World War II in Italy as the basis of the break out.—garykmcd

Kept on a short leash by the sadistic, manipulative, and power-hungry chief guard, Captain Munsey, the rebellious and tough-to-break inmate, Joe Collins, and his doomed fellow prisoners, find themselves with their backs to the wall. As a result, against the backdrop of a volatile situation at the underfunded and overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, Joe summons up the courage to crack the wall open; however, no one has ever escaped from the impenetrable prison and lived to tell the tale. But, in the end, when precious freedom is so expensive, no one knows what great lengths one can go to break free. Will Joe, the condemned prisoner of the cramped cell R17, ever taste the air of freedom?—Nick Riganas