Word: wardens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Have you heard the one about the hippies, the mobsters, the convicts, the politician, the warden, the moll', LSD, the balloon and the gangster chief called "God"? Well, that's it. End of joke. It's called Skidoo, and the only conceivable reasons to see it are 1) to hear each and every credit, from cameraman to copyright date, sung on the sound track; 2) to see actors like Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Burgess Meredith, Peter Lawford and even Groucho Marx make fools of themselves; and 3) just to believe that it exists. Ostensibly a comedy, Skidoo...
...high and try to seduce one another in a cell block called Queens Row. The character that Bruce called "the handsome but mixed-up prison doctor, H. B. Warner," has been replaced by a sissified head-shrinker whom the men lovingly refer to as "that faggot psychologist." The warden, usually portrayed as tough but sympathetic, is played as a brutal martinet by Frank Eyman, who is a real-life warden...
Morgan's return to prison set the stage for his crowning achievement. While at Leavenworth, he brought a lawsuit against the warden and the chief medical officer. Both, he contended, had ordered "unqualified inmates" to inoculate him with a drug that gave him permanent injuries. Claiming that they were acting "under color" of federal office at the time, the two men got their case removed from a state to a federal court...
...WARDEN threw a party in the county jail." Lieber-Stoller. Mike and Jerry. Then practically made Elvis. So many songs: "Hound Dog," "Heartbreak Hotel," "Little Egypt," on and on and on. "Jailhouse Rock," according to Peter Hayes, who anyone who is at all hip in Cambridge should know, or at least heard of, says: 'Jailhouse Rock' is the greatest song ever written." It's true...
...solid achievements. A committee of the Colorado state legislature has just announced that it will soon propose two laws to help the convicts. One will reform parole procedures; the other will permit indeterminate sentences so that a prisoner can win an early release if he shows signs of rehabilitation. Warden Patterson says that it is too early to tell whether his program has really changed the inmates. But he does give the men credit for sincerity. "They believe that they are saving kids from a life of crime. And that begins to work at a prisoner's innards...