Jailhouse rock

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows jailhouse rock

poster Alice the Jail Bird
Alice the Jail Bird
8mn - Animation
Alice and Julius are riding along on a turtle until they notice someone has left a pie to cool on their third-storey window sill. They swipe it with the aid of the turtle and his elongated neck, but are p…
poster Souls on the Road
Souls on the Road
(3.3/5)
91mn - Drama
A small town boy dreams of being a famous fiddler; Meanwhile, two convicts escape from prison and hide in the woods.
poster My Old Kentucky Home
My Old Kentucky Home
(3.1/5)
7mn - Animation
This 1926 Fleischer Song Car-Tune encouraged movie going audiences to follow the bouncing ball, or racist caricature, and join in on a minstrel classic. In this way, the short joined sentimentality, a sen…
poster An Awful Moment
An Awful Moment
12mn - Drama
After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken forcefully out of the courtroom. Later the gypsy follows the…
poster Detained
Detained
18mn - Comedy
When a convict forcibly changes places with our hero Stan, he's taken to the pokey in the prisoner's place. Run-ins with pies, pickaxes, and the electric chair follow. Will the warden find Stan innocent o…
poster Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison
Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison
4mn - Drama, History
This early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.
poster Scarlet Days
Scarlet Days
(2.7/5)
77mn - Adventure, Romance, Western
Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with the murder of one of her fellow entertainers. Because her daughter, who knows nothing of her mother's s…
poster He's In Again
He's In Again
24mn - Comedy
A tramp enters a cabaret and orders a drink, but then is thrown out when he cannot pay for it. After trying again, he is told by the manager that if he wants to avoid being charged and sent to jail, he wi…
poster Buried Alive
Buried Alive
62mn - Crime, Drama, Romance
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed fo…
poster Tracked by Bloodhounds; or, A Lynching at Cripple Creek
Tracked by Bloodhounds; or, A Lynching at Cripple Creek
4mn - Western
A tramp kills a generous woman. In revenge, her husband tracks down and lynches the tramp.
poster Girl on a Chain Gang
Girl on a Chain Gang
96mn - Drama
Three young travelers driving through the Deep South encounter corrupt police who frame them on false charges, subjecting them to a brutal ordeal of racial hatred and systematic abuse that exposes the dar…
poster Kansas Saloon Smashers
Kansas Saloon Smashers
1mn - Comedy
A gilded saloon, with a fancy bar, forms the background. A nobby bartender with white coat and apron is dispensing drinks to customers. Behind him are polished plate glass mirrors. A comical Irishman ente…
poster They Made Me a Criminal
They Made Me a Criminal
(3.4/5)
92mn - Thriller, Crime, Drama
A champion boxer wrongfully accused of murder flees to a remote Arizona farm where he finds unexpected redemption working with troubled youth, but when a relentless detective picks up his trail, he must c…
poster The Ex-Convict
The Ex-Convict
(2.9/5)
9mn - Drama
A recently-released convict attempts to do right but struggles to support his wife and ailing daughter.
poster Until They Get Me
Until They Get Me
(3.2/5)
58mn - Drama, Western
In an effort to reach his wife's deathbed, Kirby is forced to kill a man in self-defense. He is arrested by Selwyn, a member of the North West Mounted Police, who allows him to say a last farewell to his …
poster The Testing Block
The Testing Block
60mn - Western
The tough outlaw 'Sierra' Bill falls in love with the traveling girl violinist Nelly Gray. Sierra forces her into marrying him. They have a child, but family life is interrupted by the gambler Ringe, who …
poster The Hoose-Gow
The Hoose-Gow
18mn - Comedy
Stan and Ollie arrive as new inmates at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a raid they tell a prison officer they were only watching. The usual mayhem ensues.
poster The False Road
The False Road
67mn - Drama, Crime
Roger Moran, a member of a gang of thieves headed by Mike Wilson, is released from prison after having served a two-year sentence. He has learned his lesson and vows to leave his life of crime, but his gi…
poster Moan & Groan, Inc.
Moan & Groan, Inc.
(3.1/5)
20mn - Comedy
The gang goes digging for treasure in an old abandoned house against Kennedy the Cop's wishes.
poster Deadwood '76
Deadwood '76
97mn - Western
A young drifter is mistaken for Billy the Kid. The concequences prove deadly.
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