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Convictsis a 1962 prison film drama starring Ben Gazzara and directed by Millard Kaufman. The film is a fictionalized version of the life of death row convict John Resko, who wrote his autobiography Reprieve.

Pardoned by the governor at the last minute, Resko is sentenced to Dannemora Prison, where he has difficulty adjusting to life behind bars. It becomes even less bearable after hearing that his wife Carmen Phillips has left him and that his father Jack Kruschen has died.Resko does long stretches in solitary confinement. But he is befriended eventually by fellow convicts like Iggy Ray Walston and Wino Sammy Davis Jr. who help him to pass the time. When he takes up art as a hobby, Reskos work is seen by an art critic, Carl Carmer Vincent Price, who believes him to have promise. ........

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