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Budget. $95,000. Punishment Park is a 1971 American pseudo-documentary drama film written and directed by Peter Watkins. The setting is of a British and West German film crew following National Guard soldiers and police as they pursue members of a counterculture group across a desert.
Jun 22, 2023. Rated: 5/5 • Apr 25, 2019. Feb 28, 2019. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares ...
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- Peter Watkins
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- Paul Alelyanes
Actor. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Stan Armsted is known for Punishment Park (1971). More at IMDbPro. Contact info.
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The anti-oppression rhetoric of the seven #638 defendants, who include a singer-songwriter (Catherine Quittner), a pacifist (Scott Turner) and a black militant (Stan Armsted), burns with passion, as do the law-and-order rebuttals of the tribunal members.
- Peter Watkins, Peter Smokler
- Patrick Boland
Written by Watkins. Cast includes Carmen Argenziano, Stan Armsted, Jim Bohan, Frederick Franklin and Gladys Golden. 89 minutes. Colour. Set in the Near Future, Punishment Park concerns a group of young political dissidents who are forced to endure a government-controlled "run of the gauntlet" before they can attain amnesty for their political ...
The firing by National Guardsmen upon unarmed civilians recalls similar events at Kent State University in 1970, the binding and gagging of black prisoner Charles Robbins (Stan Armsted) during his own hearing alludes directly to the same treatment meted out to Bobby Seale during the Chicago 10 Conspiracy Trial of 1969 and the so-called McCarran ...
In a desert zone in southwest California, a civilian tribunal passes sentence on groups of dissidents and gives them the option of participating in law enforcement training exercises in the Bear Mountain National Punishment Park.
