![]() Jim, a slave who helps him: “Free? Free to get killed when weesee caught. It’ll be the gallows for us.”Īunt Deliah,upon spotting the escapees: “They’re demons. They’re not going to throw us back in the stockade this time. You may not see the walls, but every Rebel for miles will be looking for us now. ![]() Hoover: “We are deep in Confederate territory, Tom. We just exchanged one prison for another.” boy and a young girl fall for each other onboard a train bound for Chennai. Joseph Hoover: “We are out of the camp, but we’re far from free. Disney+ Hotstar>Watch Super Hit Full Movies & Trailers Online on Disney+. Robert Spencer: “What does literature have to do with dysentery?” Thomas Ryan, proposing the three captives pretend to have dysentery in order to escape: “Are you an idiot? Of course, I don’t mean it literally.” The material could have made a much, much better film in the right hands with the right cast. In another scene, an elderly slave woman immediately recognizes Jim Young as her son, even though he was sold to another slave owner 18 years earlier at age 12.Īll of which is a shame. MacIntosh, a southern lady who pretends to offer our escaped soldiers a taste of southern hospitality, when she’s really just trying to keep them around until she can cash in on the bounty on their heads. Z-grade acting from some members of the supporting cast doesn’t help. Or, for that matter, even dirty or haggard enough for the roles they’re playing. They never look hungry or desperate or hopeless. Our main characters keep saying they’re hungry and desperate and running out of hope. ![]() Unfortunately, is also lacks the grit and realism needed to turn that true story into a captivating film. The film is a true story based on the diary of Joseph Hoover, stars the son of acclaimed director Oliver Stone and features a captivating soundtrack. And they’ll need the underground railroad those slaves are using as a path to freedom if they’re ever going to make their way back North. They’re still in the deep south, in unfamiliar territory, with no guns, no food and the likelihood of being shot or hung if they’re found. Ryan hatches an escape plan and it works, at least for he and Hoover.īut fleeing the prison camp hardly means freedom, Hoover realizes. On the way there, he makes acquaintances with two fellow captives, young Robert Spencer (Christian Fortune) and fellow officer Thomas J. Joseph Hoover, a Union soldier captured during the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864.Īfter four months at Andersonville Prison, he’s transferred to a POW camp in Florence, S.C., that’s still under construction. ![]()
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