The Last Mile

The Last Mile

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  • Release Date: 2018-01-31
  • Runtime: 68 minutes
  • Production Company: TELUS STORYHIVE
  • Production Country: United States of America
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The ITU long distance triathlon course, World Championships will test stamina, motivation and desire. Will they be able to overcome their challenges to realize their high stake dreams?

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  • CinemaSerf

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    By CinemaSerf
    Reduced to the status of being a number not a name, “Walters” (Howard Phillips) has been sentenced to death for a murder he protests that he did not commit. Into prison he goes, to share a cell with “Mears” (Preston Foster) who makes no such claims to innocence. Therefore he reckons he has little to lose when he organises a prison revolt against the hitherto fairly benign rule of it’s governor (Walter Walker). Whether he likes it or not, “Walters” is going to be caught up in this drama - damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. With the armed officers now lined up outside and his thuggish, hostage taking, fellow inmates desperate and ruthless inside, what chance he - or any of them - can stay alive? Also, thanks to a fainting spell from the terrified “Walters”, we get a flashback of the events that led up to his imprisonment and from then on in I thought that Phillips delivered fine in the latter scenes with the slightly wooden Foster also working adequately. This is a very wordy drama that does benefit from quite a lively, poignant even, last twenty minutes as it showcases the only solution to the hopelessness for those incarcerated with no chance of reprieve or parole, and illustrates that prison wardens were often at considerable risk if things went wrong in the cell blocks. Much of the rest of this, though, is over-dramatised to the point that it might have been better made as a silent film. Some of the contorted facial expressions and histrionics are nowadays more likely to raise a smile than any sense of sympathy, but it still sends a clear message suggesting that prison reform is essential to any possibility of rehabilitation for people who really do think life is cheap.

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