Movies and TvShows featuring "prison-trustee" theme.

Brubaker is a drama crime movie released in 1980. It is based on the true story of Henry Brubaker, a prison warden who goes undercover in a prison in Arkansas to expose corruption and improve the conditions for prisoners.

Nevada Smith, an orphaned cowboy, embarks on a journey of revenge after his parents are brutally killed. He faces numerous challenges, including sadistic psychopaths, tough gunfights, and the exploration of his own identity as a biracial man in the Wild West. With determination and skill, Nevada fights for justice and retribution while unraveling the mysteries of his past.

In this pre-code crime film, a man is wrongly accused of manslaughter and sent to prison. While in prison, he experiences love, betrayal, and tries to prove his innocence.

A man is sentenced to prison for murder and discovers the importance of honor and redemption while serving his sentence in a New York prison. He forms relationships with other inmates and struggles against corruption within the prison system.

Public Hero Number 1 (1935) is a crime drama film set in the 1930s. The story revolves around a heroic public figure who pretends to be drunk and infiltrates a gang of robbers to bring them to justice. Along the way, he must navigate prison riots, escape attempts, and a flooded river. With the help of a government agent and a prison cellmate, he takes down the gang leader and reunites with his long-lost sister.

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.

A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks like him is delivered back to the prison and receives attention, especially from Ann, the warden's daughter who leads the prison glee club.

Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold Huber) hires him to take the $107,000 winnings of the gambler's syndicate on the game to Chicago. On the way the money bag falls out of the airplane and lands in the state penitentiary. Herry now has to figure out how to get into the prison and get the money out of the prison.