- Actors: Vic Morrow, Alan Alda, Clu Gulager, Billy Dee Williams, Kristoffer Tabori
- Directors: Tom Gries
- Writers: Tracy Keenan Wynn, Truman Capote, Wyatt Cooper
- Producers: Rick Rosenberg, Robert W. Christiansen, Roger Gimbel
- Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Import
- Language: English
- Region: All Regions
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Vci Video
- Release Date: Jan 25 2000
- Run Time: 90 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6305698902
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EXCELLENT!!
Jun 16 2002
Format:DVD
This is WOW...Good Job Alan Alda!! I recommend this to anyone wanting to have an understanding of prison...and yes this is realistic!!
Uncompromising, Brutal Film is Powerful and Shocking
Oct 18 2000
Format:DVD
Man, after 30 years, this film still retains the power to shock and unsettle viewers. It's amazing to think that this was even televised back in the early 1970's, when most of t.v. was variety shows and comedy. This is a powerful film, telling the story of a college professor (Alan Alda) who is sent to a maximum security prison for accidentally killing a man in self defense. The horrors that await Alda are numbing, from gang attacks, rapes and stabbings, to indifferent guards and physcotic inmates. This is one of the fineset performances Alda has ever given, and the gritty, on-location shots and use of real prisoners gives it an all-too real atmosphere. If you enjoy terrific character studies, coupled with grim reality and a shocking, unpredictable story, this is the film for you.
'Glass House' is also probably one of the best 'prison' movies ever made, and certainly an intelligent indictment on the human condition. I saw this on it's original 1970's airing when I was a kid. Maybe it 'scared me straight' and help me stay on the straight and narrow. If so, I commend it's power. And after all these years, it still entertains and is as good as any contemporary drama.
Disturbing and depressing!
May 26 2000
Format:VHS Tape
This movie is by far the one of the most disturbing movies that I have ever seen. The protagonist, Jonathan Paige (masterfully played by Alan Alda) suffers both mental and physical pain to save the least. He is innocent and yet he pays dearly for his bad timing and luck. Vic Morrow also does an excellent job as the evil Hugo Slucum. The rape and suicide scenes are among the most realistic and disturbing ever filmed. I would give this movie 5 stars for its sheer realism, but that would assume then that I would recommend it, which I don't. It is too disturbing. I did not help that I first saw it when I was 11.
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no captions!
If you like or need or want subtitles or closed captions, do NOT get this DVD! No subtitles. No closed captions for the deaf. Read more
Published on Mar 18 2000 by b mcb
One of Alan Alda's best!
A must for any Alan Alda fan! This all-star cast depicts prison life as it is, unglamorous and violent. Read more
Published on Jan 17 2000 by Jacqueline
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