Before breaking out of a new prison with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Escape, Sylvester Stallone was already established in the corridors of a high-security penitentiary.
Released in theaters in 1989, John Flynn’s High Security tells the story of Frank Leone, an inmate with impeccable behavior who is released from prison after six months in prison with a light sentence.
But just days before his release, Frank is transferred to a maximum-security prison under the orders of Warden Drumgoole, an obnoxious warden who also happens to be his worst enemy. The latter forces him to suffer all kinds of humiliation, intimidation and cruelty for a specific purpose: to push him to commit a crime.
And who better than actor Donald Sutherland to portray this lecherous and vengeful on-screen guardian with piercing blue eyes? in turn Sylvester Stallone Represents a prisoner who is at once fragile, tormented and tortured… but never submissive.
Stallone at the gates of the penitentiary
Frank Leone, this deeply wounded character, was born a year before Rocky III and a year after Rocky V. and as always Sylvester Stallone It offers the audience action scenes worthy of the name and draws us, not with some cruelty, as close as possible to the atmosphere of the prison.
And don’t think Frank Leone’s character lets himself walk. Because after months of physical and psychological torture, the model prisoner engages in furious bare-knuckle combat against his worst enemy.
A fascinating prison film in which Sylvester Stallone Sows the seeds of his future great escape (which will see the light of day after twenty-four years High security).
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Source: Allocine
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