A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
Acting
James Woods at peak unlikable-weasel energy.
Direction
Harris brings Sidney Lumet's leftovers to life.
Writing
Dialogue that needs a shower afterwards.
Director
James B. Harris
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Ernest Brawley's novel 'The Rap,' which the studio made Harris change because it sounded too much like prison rape. Their title fix? 'Fast-Walking.'
Harris produced early Kubrick films; this shares DNA with 'The Killing's' grubby criminal underworld but stripped of romanticism.
US
