Synopsis
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.
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Cast
- Sylvester StalloneFrank Leone
- Donald SutherlandWarden Drumgoole
- John AmosCaptain Meissner
- Sonny LandhamChink Weber
- Tom SizemoreDallas
- Frank McRaeEclipse
- Darlanne FluegelMelissa
- William Allen YoungBraden
- Larry RomanoFirst Base
- Jordan LundManly
Recommendations
- 60
Chicago Reader
For torture and violence freaks, every clank and thud is duly and hyperbolically registered. - 60
Empire
A hard-boiled version of Rocky, with enough anti-Balboa brutality to keep our interest. - 60
Washington Post
The film is a sort of prison fantasy, in which all the most popular boys in the cellblock have a high time together, smoking cigarettes, working on cars and spraying each other with paint guns...All the while you're thinking, "What is this, ancient Greece?" - 60
Washington Post
Put the whole movie down to cartoonery...This is a drive-in theater battle of wills between the forces of evil and the forces of good. - 40
Variety
Lock Up is made in the same, simplistic vein as most other Sylvester Stallone pics - putting him, the blue-collar protagonist, against the odds over which he ultimately prevails. - 38
TV Guide Magazine
With nothing in the way of performance to cling to, the audience is left to marvel at the mounting inanity of each scene.
