Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As in the outside world, there is a "system"; and just as on the outside, there is accommodation, honesty, cynicism, violence and all the other factors that make up our society. The film follows the three newcomers, it records the grim, terrifying, sometimes fascinating events that occur.
Alan Alda
as Jonathon Paige
Vic Morrow
as Hugo Slocum
Clu Gulager
as Brian Courtland
Billy Dee Williams
as Lennox
Kristoffer Tabori
as Allan Campbell
Dean Jagger
as Warden Auerbach
Scott Hylands
as Ajax
Edward Bell
as Sinclair
Roy Jenson
as Officer Brown
Alan Vint
as Bree
Luke Askew
as Bibleback
