starring
Timothy Bottoms Kay Lenz
Colleen Dewhurst
Caught at Mexico City
Airport with a concealed package of cocaine, Dwight Worker , an American citizen, is incarcerated without trial in the notorious Lecumberri
Prison. Brutally beaten by the wardens in an attempt to extort money from him for better treatment, Dwight is finally visited by an American girl, Barbara, who instils in him a new hope for the future. Together they plan a daring jail break from the escape-proof jail....
Timothy Bottoms stars in this engrossing drama based on the true story of Dwight
Worker's attempt to be the first man to escape from Lecumberri Prison since Pancho Villa in 1913. Dwight Worker. TiMOTHY BOTTOMS
Screenplay by MICHAEL ZAGER based on the book by DWIGHT AND BARBARA WORKER
Produced by MICHAEL JAFFE Directed by ROBERT LEWIS
(First showing on British Television)
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