This weekend we also watched Alan Parker's Midnight Express (1978); there's got to be some comparisons to be made with his Birdy (1984). Guys in prison helping each other through the agony. With homoerotic overtones. Brad Davis' Billy Hayes is really awfully unsympathetic, as Prison Flicks explains, but it's still quite a watchable film. Even if the script was Oliver Stone's, for which he won an Oscar, it's OK, although there's a scene of someone clicking his heels in glee at the end that's a little hokey.

And finally, The Ladykillers (1955); unfortunately I somehow got the impression that because it was another Ealing comedy with Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood would be in it too, since she was in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). No such luck. Both movies look pretty old now although they have their moments.