The Violent and the Damned

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Carlos Hugo Christensen

Status Released

Release Date 1962-01-01

Storyline

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 turn on each other.

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