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(aka "Glass House" or "The Glass House")


Directed by Tom Gries
USA 1972

 

Filmed entirely on location at Utah State Prison, this is one of the most brutal prison stories ever filmed. A taut, tense trip down nightmare alley and as devastating an experience as one could stomach, making this film one of the most shocking of its genre. In grim and often graphic detail, the film follows the introduction into the system of a new prison guard (Clu Gulager, The Killers. The Other Side of Midnight), a man full of high ideals and moral intentions, but totally ill-equipped and unable to contain the corruption and degradation he encounters within. When two new inmates, a college professor (Alan Alda, The Mephisto Waltz, The Seduction of Joe Tynan) and a young teenager become the target for the brutal and sadistic gang leader (Vic Morrow, Combat, Twilight Zone: The Movie), they find nowhere to run and no one to run to. Even the aging Warden (Dean Jagger, I Heard the Owl Call My Name, My Son John) is bought and paid for by the gang leaders. Their fate is inevitable and terror reigns supreme, it is the law of the jungle, the law of gang rapes, scalding and vicious knifings. Legendary Truman Capote’s (In Cold Blood) The Glass House is a relentless, devastating and above all, a damning portrayal of life and death as it exists in one of America’s toughest prisons. Directed by Hollywood veteran Tom Gries (100 Rifles, Lady Ice, Breakout) and co-starring Billy Dee Williams (The Empire Strikes Back, Hit!), Scott Hylands (Fools, Death Hunt) and Luke Askew (Dune Warriors). Now see this groundbreaking TV movie for the first time in HD!.

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Theatrical Release: February 4th, 1972

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Review: Scorpion Releasing - Region 'A' - Blu-ray

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Distribution Scorpion Releasing - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
Runtime 1:30:38.516      
Video

1.33:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 23,868,458,480 bytes

Feature: 21,040,748,544 bytes

Video Bitrate: 27.50 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
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Audio

DTS-HD Master Audio English 1815 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1815 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) 
Subtitles English (SDH), None
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Studio: Scorpion Releasing

 

1.33:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 23,868,458,480 bytes

Feature: 21,040,748,544 bytes

Video Bitrate: 27.50 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

 

Edition Details:

• Interview with Clu Gulager (33:58)

• Scorpion Trailers


Blu-ray Release Date: November 6th, 2018
 Standard Blu-ray Case

Chapters 13

 

 

Comments:

NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

Scorpion Releasing have brought the interesting prison TV movie "The Glass House" to Blu-ray. It's on a single-layered disc with a reasonable bitrate and looks okay without any film-level restoration. There are a few scratches, speckles and inconsistencies - sometimes close-ups look sharper than others but I have no evidence this is the fault of the transfer.  I suspect this is a faithful rendition with imperfections due to age and storage of the elements used.

The film is presented with a (24-bit) DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel mono track. Despite the topic aggressive effects are not abundant and everything comes through consistent and flat. I did notice what I thought was some sync issues but they were sporadic. The score by TV-composer Billy Goldenberg (The Legend of Lizzie Borden, Spielberg's Duel, some Columbo, Smile Jenny, You're Dead etc.) . There are optional English subtitles on this Region 'A' Blu-ray.

There is a half-hour interview with star Clu Gulager who plays the new guard, Brian Courtland. He's quite open about the film and it's softening in the screenplay process. I thought he gave a good interviews. There are also a handful of Scorpion trailers.

This is an above-average prison film with Alda as the sheepish professor thrust into the corruption of the penal system - starting with the Warden on down. It is less-shocking than I would have imaged (perhaps I am jaded) but still effective. This Scorpion Releasing Blu-ray release lets you see this solid Prison picture in 1080P - very much worth it for fans of the genre.

Gary Tooze

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