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Convicts 4, also known as Reprieve, is a 1962 American neo noir crime film starring Ben Gazzara and directed by Millard Kaufman. [1] [2] [3] The film is a fictionalized version of the life of death row convict John Resko, who wrote his autobiography: Reprieve .
Mini Bio. John Resko was born on February 16, 1911 in New York, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Convicts 4 (1962), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) and Here's Hollywood (1960). He died on March 10, 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- February 16, 1911
- March 10, 1991
A remarkably satisfying book by a convicted murderer whose death sentence was commuted in 1932 to life imprisonment. Resko, once a rough kid from the Lower East Side of New York, wrote vividly and, odd as it seems, entertainingly about the seventeen years he spent as a prisoner in Dannemora, the nearly inaccessible northern "Siberia" of the New York State prison system.
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Convicts 4: Directed by Millard Kaufman. With Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston, Vincent Price. After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko (Ben Gazzara) is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora Prison where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Millard Kaufman
- 1963-02-07
John Resko Sketches And Paintings Made During His Prison Years And Right Aftercaps - Allan Grant — Google Arts & Culture. Allan Grant 1962. LIFE Photo Collection. New York City, United States....
The New Yorker, October 18, 1952 P. 103. REPORTER AT LARGE about John Resko, a murderer who was released from Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York, after serving 19 years of a life sentence. A...
Synopsis. During the Great Depression, John Resko kills a storekeeper for trying to prevent him from taking a toy for his infant child. As he awaits execution at Sing Sing, his sentence is commuted to life imprisonment, and he is transferred to Dannemora Prison.
