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Stir Crazy
- Director: Sidney Poitier
- Writer: Bruce Jay Friedman
- Producer: Francois De Menil; Melville Tucker
CGiii Comment
The intensely annoying Gene Wilder does what he does so well - using his voice like fingernails being dragged down a blackboard.
The humour is dated and predictable - forgettable.
Look who directed this - simply weird.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.
Cast & Characters
Gene Wilder as Skip Donahue;
Richard Pryor as Harry Monroe;
Georg Stanford Brown as Rory Schultebrand;
JoBeth Williams as Meredith;
Miguel Angel Suarez as Jesus Ramirez;
Craig T. Nelson as Deputy Ward Wilson;
Barry Corbin as Warden Walter Beatty;
Charles Weldon as Blade;
Nicolas Coster as Warden Henry Sampson;
Joel Brooks as Len Garber;
Jonathan Banks as Jack Graham;
Erland van Lidth as Grossberger;
Lewis Van Bergen as Guard #1;
Karmin Murcelo as Teresa Ramirez;
Franklyn Ajaye as Young Man in Hospital