The Glass House (1972)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Vic Morrow	...	Hugo Slocum
	Alan Alda	...	Jonathon Paige
	Clu Gulager	...	Brian Courtland
	Billy Dee Williams	...	Lennox
	Kristoffer Tabori	...	Allan Campbell
	Dean Jagger	...	Warden Auerbach
	Scott Hylands	...	Ajax
	Edward Bell	...	Sinclair
	Roy Jenson	...	Officer Brown
	Alan Vint	...	Bree
	Luke Askew	...	Bibleback
	Tony Mancini	...	Steve Berino

Storyline

Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As in the outside world, there is a "system"; and just as on the outside, there is accommodation, honesty, cynicism, violence and all the other factors that make up our society. Three new convicts act as the catalyst for the events that follow; a college teacher, convicted of accidental manslaughter; a young man, sentenced for possession of marijuana; a new guard, interested in changing the system. Inside prison, the 'establlishment' presents itself. The warden doesn't want to rock the boat of the small society within prison walls. A convict dictator controls activities among the inmates thanks to a control of the narcotics traffic. A leader of the black convicts seethes in his own world of racial tension when there is no difference between convicts and authorities... Written by alfiehitchie  

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