Dallas offers to help Leone escape to warn Melissa but instead delivers Leone to the utility basement right into Drumgoole's hands where he finds out that Drumgoole wanted him to try to escape so he would receive a mandatory 10-year sentence for the second escape attempt and the inmate who was going to rape Melissa was just a corrupt prison guard called Mastrone who was part of the warden's scheme to set Leone up. Whilst Leone recovers in the prison infirmary, one night a stranger, an inmate who claims to be an old friend from Treadmore, says that Chink has paid him to rape and murder Melissa. Since Leone didn't kill Chink one of Chink's friends stabs Leone from behind with a shank. ![]() Leone fights and defeats Chink, but he spare's Chink's life because he knows that's precisely what Drumgoole wants. Upon release, the warden wants an excuse to slap Leone with more time, so he allows prisoner Chink Weber (Sonny Landham) and his bullying friends to kill First-Base in the gym. The warden orders that the letters sent to him from his girlfriend Melissa be stashed away but as Leone is released Braden the good conscientious prison guard secretly delivers them to Leone. Drumgoole has them watch as inmates destroy the car and Leone is subsequently sent to solitary confinement for six weeks. After Leone reluctantly allows First-Base to start the car he refuses to turn it off and drives the Mustang out of the garage. The foursome refurbish a Ford Mustang, which Eclipse nicknames "Maybelline". Leone befriends fellow prisoners Dallas (Tom Sizemore), Eclipse (Frank McRae) and First-Base (Larry Romano). Leone went to the press about the warden's treatment of his prisoners, resulting in Drumgoole's transfer to Gateway and Leone serving in minimum security before his transfer. Leone escaped because his mentor and friend was dying Leone was refused even one hour to see him. Drumgoole explains that Leone will serve hard timeLeone was the only person to escape from Treadmore and did so on Drumgoole's watch. One night while sleeping in his cell, guards arrive and forcibly take Leone to maximum security Gateway Prison run by Warden Drumgoole (Donald Sutherland). ![]() Melissa drives him back dropping him off at prison and gives him a lucky charm necklace. He also spends time with his girlfriend Melissa (Darlanne Fluegel) and he goes to the park playing football with kids in the neighbourhood. He occasionally spends time outside prison in his garage fixing cars and looking at pictures of his childhood and high school football years and pictures of him with his father. I had no problem whatsoever with him".Frank Leone (Sylvester Stallone), a skilled mechanic and football player, in Hoboken, New Jersey is a model prisoner nearing the end of his sentence in Norwood, a low security prison. If I ever needed a better line, he'd come up with one. Stallone is a smart guy and a very underrated actor. So we sat around and bullshitted with the prisoners. I had my movie star, all these extras and a great location - and the pages were on their way. There was one day when I was on the third tier of a cell-block in Rahway Penitentiary and I had nothing to shoot. Jeb and Henry were writing the script as we were making the movie. We finally found one in Rahway, New Jersey. Meanwhile, I'm going around scouting prisons. So we all go back to New York City, and move into a hotel where Larry 'tortures' Jeb and Henry Rosenbaum into writing a script in record time. Now we have a star, a theme, a shooting date, a budget, a studio, but we still have no script. So we hire Jeb Stuart, who was then one of the hottest writers in Hollywood, to rewrite the script and we go off looking for prison locations. All we have is a theme - a guy escaping from prison. ![]() So we have a director and a star, but no script. Woods says yeah, he's a good director and you ought to work with him. Stallone calls James Woods and asks if I'm any good as a director. Larry Gordon had a terrible script set in a prison. Stallone had a 'window' which means the guy was available for a certain window of time. Chartrand for Shock Cinema: " Lock Up (1989) is a strange lesson in how Hollywood movies are made. Director John Flynn has said of this movie, in a 2005 interview with Harvey F.
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