
Avengement(2019)
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.


“5 KILLER CONVICTS BREAK OUT!”
A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.
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Broderick Crawford
Rollo Lamar

Ralph Meeker
Geraldo 'Jerry' Barker aka Iceman

Reed Hadley
Special FBI Agent James Madden

William Talman
William 'Machine Gun' Mason

Lon Chaney Jr.
Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith

Charles Bronson
Benny Kelly

Felicia Farr
Emily Euridice Evans

Roy Roberts
Chief Ranger Will Erickson

Willis Bouchey
Robertson Lambert

Peter J. Votrian
Danny Lambert
Big House, U.S.A is a action, thriller, crime film released in 1955 exploring themes of ransom, prison escape. Directed by Howard W. Koch, it stars Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Reed Hadley. A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.
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