#Lock up 1989 movie#
Subverted when Frank doesn't even bother escaping the prison at all, but leaves hints that that's how he went out. Frank gives said pipe a long, meaningful look before leaving the area. Foreshadowing: Frank, after bemusedly listening to Dallas' escape plan, points out all the things that are wrong with it, leaving a frustrated Dallas to dispose of the copy of the prison blueprints that he had swiped down the cistern pipe leading to the prison's sewer works.Forced to Watch: After convincing First Base to stop the escape attempt, Drumgoole orders the car to be destroyed by Chink's gang in front of many inmates, including Frank.Driven to Suicide: At least Dallas took Manly with him via an Electrified Water Pit.As a result, Drumgoole has to hire out to the leader of the local prison gang to be his hitman. The Dragon: Chink Weber serves as one for Warden Drumgoole in place of Meissner, the chief guard, who is simply not willing to go along with outright illegal orders.Disproportionate Retribution: Prisoner escapes in his last two weeks at Treadmore to visit his dying friend and exposes your misconduct? And he gets another five years? If you're Warden Drumgoole, that's obviously not enough the answer is to get the prisoner randomly transferred to a Hellhole Prison, repeatedly attacked, stabbed, hassled, tortured, lured into a trap to extend his sentence for the rest of his life, and have his friends murdered to provoke him into lashing out.Didn't Think This Through: Drumgoole never seems to realize that his revenge scheme would lead to his own downfall not one bit throughout the film.Despair Event Horizon: Frank Leone gets this when Chink's goons bust up the car at least, the former was more brave than them.Then he ties his hands to the switch, so he can make his speech about all the bad things the Warden did to the guards while they're unable to shoot him. Dead Man's Switch: In the climax, Frank takes Drumgoole hostage and throws him into the reactivated electric chair in the prison's defunct death row section.
Cool Car: A newly rebuilt 1965 Ford Mustang repainted from white to red christened Maybelline, courtesy of Eclipse too bad it gets destroyed.Bowdlerize: Chink Weber's name gets censored in syndicated airings.
Big Bad: Warden Drumgoole causes the conflict by endlessly hounding Frank for the purposes of petty revenge.Better to Die than Be Killed: Something that Dallas decides to do upon learning he will be Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves, he takes the first opportunity to save Frank from Manly but at the cost of his own life.Award-Bait Song: " Ever Since the World Began ", by the late Survivor vocalist Jimi Jamison.As Leone tries to sit out the remainder of his sentence, Drumgoole resorts to increasingly evil means to make sure Leone's stay will be a living hell. Drumgoole still has a bone to pick with Leone over humiliating him by escaping one of his prisons years ago, and wants nothing more than to see Leone rot in prison for the rest of his life. One day he is sent to the maximum security Gateway Prison on trumped-up grounds by the vindictive, brutal Warden Drumgoole (Sutherland). Lock Up is a 1989 prison film directed by John Flynn, starring Sylvester Stallone and Donald Sutherland.įrank Leone (Stallone) is a convicted criminal who is nearing the end of his sentence for model behavior.
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