Mean Dog Blues

Year: 1978

Runtime: 108 mins

Language: English

Director: Mel Stuart

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Prison camp #4 has claimed that no inmate has ever broken free, but Paul Ramsey, a country‑and‑western musician caught by circumstance, is determined to be the first. Sent to a Southern chain‑gang, the reluctant singer weighs his love of music against the brutal reality of hard‑law labor as he plots an escape.

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