Stir
Hated... Desperate... Brutalised... ...They can't stop now!
1980 · 1h 37m · N/A
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Stephen Wallace
Overview
Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
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