An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the French border.
亚卡拉监狱位于美国旧金山海湾，是当时防卫密度最高的监狱，里面关押的都是十恶不赦的罪犯。这座监狱被称为是史上最难逃脱的监狱。 弗兰克（克林特·伊斯特伍德 Clint Eastwood 饰）因为抢劫银行的罪名而被关进了亚卡拉监狱，在这里，他结识了擅长驯养老鼠的利姆图斯（弗兰克·罗茨 Frank Ronzio 饰）以及拥有卓越的艺术细胞的天才画家“医生”（罗伯茨·布洛瑟姆 Roberts Blossom 饰）。因为良好的表现和高超的智商，弗兰克被典狱长派往监狱的图书馆工作，在那里，他遇见了囚犯领袖英格理士（保罗·本杰明 Paul Benjamin 饰）。典狱长专治而粗暴的统治让囚犯们渐渐心生怨怼，在一系列过激事件发生后，弗兰克决定带领大家越狱。
《行尸走肉》女星劳瑞·侯登(《寂静岭》《迷雾》)加盟梅尔·吉布森、文斯·沃恩主演新片《Dragged Across Concrete》，讲述吉布森和沃恩饰演的两位警探发现自己被停职，原因是一则录像被媒体曝光，展现了他们在执法上的“强硬手段”。两人在缺少资金跟外界帮助的情况下决定深入地下犯罪集团，却发现有更多意想不到的事情笼罩在阴影之下。劳瑞·侯登将饰演吉布森的妻子，同时也是一名前警官。S. Craig Zahler编写剧本同时执导本片，本月底温哥华开拍。
Ben Gazzara plays a successful lawyer who is told by his doctor in the first episode that he will die in one to two years. He decides to do all of the things, for which he has never had time. The program becomes a series of plays in which he meets a wide variety of people from bums riding the rails, to gigolos, to orphans, and becomes a man who has little fear of death, and everything but time.
