{"id":36890,"date":"2024-09-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36890"},"modified":"2024-09-28T22:36:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T02:36:43","slug":"the-glass-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36890","title":{"rendered":"“The Glass House” (1972) directed by Tom Gries, screenplay by Tracy Keenan Wynn, starring Vic Morrow, Alan Alda, Clu Gulager & Billy Dee Williams \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Glass House<\/b><\/i><\/em><\/strong> aka<\/b> Truman Capote’s The Glass House<\/b><\/i><\/em> (1972)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director: Tom Gries<\/strong><\/p>\n

Screenplay: Tracy Keenan Wynn;<\/strong> story by Truman Capote, Wyatt Cooper<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stars: Vic Morrow, Alan Alda<\/strong>, Clu Gulager, Billy Dee Williams, Kristoffer Tabori, Scott Hylands, Roy Jenson, Alan Vint, Luke Askew, G. Wood <\/strong>and Dean Jagger.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tagline: The most brutal prison story ever filmed!<\/em><\/p>\n

The Plot…<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s Brian Courtland’s (Gulager) first day on the job as a prison guard.\u00a0 The same day a new\u00a0 bus load of prisoners arrive. In the new group is college professor Jonathan Paige (Alda) and a nineteen year old named Allan Campbell (Tabori).\u00a0 Paige is there on a manslaughter charge for accidentally killing a man.\u00a0 Campbell was caught selling marijuana.\u00a0 Neither Paige nor Campbell are built for prison.\u00a0 The jury is still out on Courtland.<\/p>\n

All three quickly learn that Hugo Slocum (Morrow) is the inmate who runs things.\u00a0 Slocum leads a gang of convicts.\u00a0 He also has at least one guard on the take.\u00a0 What Slocum says goes.\u00a0 Failure to fall in line leads to a beating or worse.\u00a0 Slocum and his crew think nothing of killing to keep their power.<\/p>\n

Paige warns Allan about Slocum.\u00a0 Allan is young and naive and doesn’t see how he’s being played. Slocum is treating Allan good, offering protection with no strings attached.\u00a0 Or so it seems.<\/p>\n

The Warden (Jagger) wants Paige put to work in the prison pharmacy.\u00a0 Courtland warns against that.\u00a0 He knows Slocum’s man works there.\u00a0 To switch him out will cause problems for Paige.\u00a0 The warden doesn’t want to hear it.<\/p>\n

When Paige starts work in the pharmacy, he learns about Slocum’s system to get drugs into the prison.\u00a0 Paige refuses to play along.\u00a0 He becomes a marked man.\u00a0 Slocum decides to make an example out of Allan in the worst possible way.<\/p>\n

What chance does Paige have?\u00a0 He’s a college professor in a corrupt prison, marked for death by the con who runs things.\u00a0 Don’t expect a happy ending.<\/p>\n

Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Glass House<\/em> was nominated for three Primetime Emmys<\/em> and won one…<\/p>\n