It's Rocky behind bars as Frank Leone (Sylvester Stallone) fights to survive the tortures of a sadistic, vindictive warden played by Donald Sutherland. The warden has it "in" for Frank, because he is the only man ever to have escaped the warden's high-security, living-hell of a prison. When Frank is transferred back to the warden's prison he has just six months left to serve on his sentence, and he is determined to make it.

Animal action: 

Guard dogs on leashes, pigeons and rats are mostly atmosphere. In one scene the prisoners are wagering on racing cockroaches. The roaches were brought to the set by a bug wrangler, who took them all back after the scene was completed.