DIRECTED BY: Gilliam Armstrong

WRITTEN BY: Ron Nyswaner

MEL GIBSON AS: Ed Biddle

GENRE: Drama, Romance

TAGLINES:

- A true story.

PLOT SUMMARY:

Peter Soffel is the stuffy warden of a remote American prison around the turn of the century. His wife, Kate, finds herself attracted to prisoner Ed Biddle. She abandons her husband and children to help Ed and his brother Jack escape and accompanies them into the wintery wasteland. –IMDB

RELEASE DATES:

1984 December 26 (United States)
1985 February – (West Germany, Berlin Film Festival)
1985 May 10 (West Germany)
1985 November 8 (Finland)
1985 November 15 (Japan)

TRIVIA:

- A very old, closed, unused bridge in the village of Elora, Ontario was refurbished for the movie, and now serves as a pedestrian bridge there.

- The jail used in the movie is the actual Allegheny County Jail that figures in the story. Designed by noted architect Henry Hobson Richardson, built between 1884-1888, it served as a jail until 1995 and is now used by the juvenile and family sections of the Common Pleas Court.

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