Gulag

In this made-for-TV thriller, a sportscaster engineers a daring escape from a Soviet prison camp after being snared by a KGB scheme. Mickey Almon (David Keith), a sports star-turned-journalist, arrives in Moscow to cover an international tournament. Soon, though, he's tempted to play the hero once ...more

A lightweight but well-produced entry in the venerable foreign-prisons-are-hell genre, this TV movie boasts a strong supporting performance from Malcolm McDowell, but suffers from a queasily patriotic streak. Handsome, boy-scoutish David Keith is perfectly cast as Mickey Almon, a golden boy athlete whose need to play the big shot ends him up in a Soviet prison camp. Although Dan Gordon's script has plenty of fun disabusing Mickey of the notion that he's got all sorts of inalienable rights as an ...more