The Violent and the Damned (1962)

The Violent and the Damned: Directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen, Jerry Warren. With Arturo de Córdova, Carlos Cotrim, Sadi Cabral, Tônia Carrero. When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil’s infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives, who have fled by foot and boat and now have begun to turn on each other.

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