First of a two-part drama based on a true story starring Val Kilmer
First World War veteran
Robert Elliot Burns is sentenced to hard labour in a brutal Georgia work camp after being forced to participate in an armed robbery. Caught in the tedium and hopelessness of life on a chain gang, Burns yearns for his freedom.
Final part and cast list tomorrow at 9.30pm. Director Daniel Mann (1987)
FILM REVIEWS pages45-51