A superb but grim film depicting life in a US prison in the early seventies. This was shown a few nights ago on the Movie4Men channel and surprisingly at 2.30 in the morning. Its the first time I have seen this film, and can only compare it to two British films made seven years later, namely Scum which has a very similar scene to The Glass House, that of buggery and suicide and McVicar with Roger Daltery from The Who playing the main character, two grim prison films that will make you think twice about committing a crime. The same can be said for The Glass House, Alan Alda is brilliant as the sensitive but intelligent type who is in the wrong place, the prison scene at the starting where he is sitting in his tiny cell is overpowering and claustrophobic, the sounds and distractions just dawning on him, of what a hell hole he's incarcerated in. Alda's performance is really refreshing as his normal genre is usually comedy, its nice to see him in a realistic drama. This film is not for the faint hearted.
Review of The Glass House
