一级谋杀

1938年，犯人亨利（Kevin Bacon 饰）试图从著名的阿尔卡特兹监狱逃出，但最终失败。典狱长格伦对威胁自己地位的亨利恨之入骨，将其抛入封闭的地牢中长达三年，期间伴有不计其数的殴打行为。亨利终于得以离开地牢，但他所做的第一件事是用勺子杀死背叛自己的犯人，于是被控一级谋杀。 　　刚离开校门的律师詹姆斯（Christian Slater 饰）受命为亨利辩护，长年的折磨让后者几乎丧失沟通能力，詹姆斯不放弃任何机会，逐渐拉近了两人的距离。初次开庭，詹姆斯将矛头对准非人道的狱方，引发媒体关注，也招惹来各方阻碍，女友与亲兄在压力下先后背离他而去。詹姆斯唯一仰仗的只剩下对正义的执着，但最后关头，亨利却表示自己宁愿被判死……Henri Young stole five dollars from a post office and ended up going to prison - to the most famous, or infamous, prison of them all: Alcatraz. He tried to escape, failed, and spent three years and two months in solitary confinement - in a dungeon, with no light, no heat and no toilet. Milton Glenn, the assistant warden, who was given free reign by his duty-shirking superior, was responsible for Young's treatment. Glenn even took a straight razor and hobbled Young for life. After three years and two months, Young was taken out of solitary confinement and put with the rest of the prisoners. Almost immediately, Young took a spoon and stabbed a fellow prisoner in the neck, killing him. Now, Young is on trial for murder, and if he's convicted he'll go to the gas chamber. An eager and idealistic young attorney, James Stamphill, is given this impossible case, and argues before a shocked courtroom that Young had a co-conspirator. The true murderer, he says, was Alcatraz.