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Convicts 4 is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 15 september 1962 with Ben Gazzara
Convicts 4 (1962)
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Add to a movie listConvicts 4 is a 1962 prison film drama starring Ben Gazzara and directed by Millard Kaufman. The film is a fictionalized version of the life of death row convict John Resko, who wrote his autobiography: Reprieve.
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It is Christmas and John Resko (Ben Gazzara) wants to give his baby daughter a new teddy bear. He goes, without money, into a shop and tries to get the shopkeeper to give it to him saying he will pay him later. The shopkeeper refuses, Resko grabs a gun he saw in the till and points it at the man. The shopkeeper lunges at Resko and is shot. Resko is condemned to the electric chair at the age of eighteen.Actors
Ben Gazzara
(John Resko)
Stuart Whitman
(Principal Keeper)
Vincent Price
(Carl Carmer)
Rod Steiger
(Tiptoes)
Ray Walston
(Iggy)
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