The Glass House

TV Movie
1972
Not Rated
1h 30m

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Corrections officer Brian Courtland, naive drug pusher Alan Campbell, and college professor Jonathan Page convicted of manslaughter report to prison and soon learn the truth about the prison... Read allCorrections officer Brian Courtland, naive drug pusher Alan Campbell, and college professor Jonathan Page convicted of manslaughter report to prison and soon learn the truth about the prison system. From a Truman Capote story.Corrections officer Brian Courtland, naive drug pusher Alan Campbell, and college professor Jonathan Page convicted of manslaughter report to prison and soon learn the truth about the prison system. From a Truman Capote story.

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7.1/10

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Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 wins & 4 nominations total

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Alan Alda on his autobiography "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed - and Other Things I've Learned" claims that this movie was shot in real prison with real prisoners as extras. During the filming of the movie, its director Tom Gries made jokes with prisoners that they should take Alan Alda as their hostage because that is the only way they can escape from prison. On the last day of shooting, two prisoners approached Alda and put an improvised knife on his throat telling him that he is their hostage. Luckily prison guard arrived shortly after and carefully negotiated with prisoners to let Alan Alda go. They let him loose telling him that they were just joking. Alda also states that no prisoner was punished for the incident.

Goofs
The word 'fictitious' is misspelled as 'ficticious' during the opening disclaimer.

Quotes
Lennox: That thing you did over there did sure took a lot of style. And I'm gonna tell you something: it's not gonna end there and you're gonna have to answer to some people.

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[prologue] "This motion picture was filmed entirely in a state prison. Most of the faces and voices are those of actual prisoners. The story and characters are fictitious, but the situations are real".

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Featured in The 24th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1972)

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Exceptional early tv

I wish I had the video in my library but it's very hard to find...Rented copies are suspected 'pirated' copies from tv. Very poor quality. This is Morrow's best role. Alda's best role and Gulager's best role. The most believable prison movie ever made. No heroes here just heavy reality crammed into 90 minutes on network tv! Makes "The Shawshank Redemption" look like "Mary Poppins". Kudos to Morrow (the most vile characterization ever captured on film). Think "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" without the comic relief. Too depressing to make my top 10 list but it's in the top 20.