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The Violent and the Damned

  • Drama

January 1, 1962 (US)

0h 58m

Run convict. Run from the sun. ... the cry is escape now or die!

When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives, who have fled by foot and boat and now have begun to tur...

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