DEADLOCKED: ESCAPE FROM ZONE 14

DEADLOCKED: ESCAPE FROM ZONE 14. Premiere 9 May 1995, Fox-TV. Graeme Campbell, dir. Canada: Pacific Motion Pictures / Spectacor [sic] Films / Jaffe/Braunstein / Signboard Hill (prod.), 1995. Esai Morales, star.

In a near-future California a cybernetic-data thief is framed for murder and sent to the "State Correctional Facility at Playland": an open-air prison where convicts are kept in by collars that explode 45 seconds after they get over one-half mile from a central radio transmitter. He has been sent on the trail of, and Deadlocks himself to the heroine. Cf. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and DEADLOCK—esp. DEADLOCK; the two films share the same premise. The collars go back to F. Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's "Risks" in Reefs of Space.

(RDE, 09/05/95)