The Prisoner (1963)
- Directed by
- William Sterling
- Country
- Australia
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man is put on trial by a totalitarian state. He must defend his conscience against a judge who demands he confess to crimes he did not commit.
tenseseriousslow-burncerebralbleakclaustrophobic
What happens
The Prisoner is a 1962 Australian television play based on a play which had been filmed with Alec Guinness. Many Australian TV dramas at the time were based on overseas stories. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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