DEADLOCK

DEADLOCK. Lewis Teague, dir. USA: HBO Pictures, 1991. Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, star. Made for TV by HBO, first shown 28 Sept. 1991.

"Recombinant cinema," where the main clichés are from heist and prison films, esp. THE DEFIANT ONES (1958). In DEADLOCK the shackles are near-future, high-tech collars that explode if the prisoners are separated by more than 100 yards (cf. the collars in F. Pohl and J. Williamson's Reefs of Space [1963] and Starchild [1965]—listed under Fiction).