Story about Murder in the First / 黑狱风云 / 1996黑狱风云 / 一级谋杀
An eager and idealistic young attorney defends an Alcatraz prisoner accused of murdering a fellow in...
An eager and idealistic young attorney defends an Alcatraz prisoner accused of murdering a fellow inmate. The extenuating circumstances: his client had just spent over three year in solitary confinement.
Henri Young stole five dollar from a post office and ended up going to prison - to the most famous, or infamous, prison of them all: Alcatraz. He tried to escape, failed, and spent three year and two months in solitary confinement - in a dungeon, with no light, no heat and no toilet. Milton Glenn, the assistant warden, who was given free reign by his duty-shirking superior, was responible for Young's treatment. Glenn even took a straight razor and hobbled Young for life. After three year and two months, Young was taken out of solitary confinement and put with the rest of the prisoner. Almost immediately, Young took a spoon and stabbed a fellow prisoner in the neck, killing him. Now, Young is on trial for murder, and if he's convicted he'll go to the gas chamber. An eager and idealistic young attorney, James Stamphill, is given this impossible case, and argues before a shocked courtroom that Young had a co-conpirator. The true murderer, he says, was Alcatraz.
