This week on “Picture Perfect,” we’re bustin’ out of the joint, with an hour of films about prison breaks.
Indomitable Steve McQueen does hard time on Devil’s Island in “Papillon” (1973), with music by Jerry Goldsmith. Paul Newman sticks it to The Man in “Cool Hand Luke” (1967), with music by Lalo Schifrin. Tim Robbins makes good use of a Rita Hayworth poster in “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994), with music by Thomas Newman. And an all-star cast, led by a barbed-wire hopping McQueen (again), flee their Nazi captors in “The Great Escape” (1963), with music by Elmer Bernstein.
Face it, nobody looks good in orange. Grab a shank and a file, and join me this Friday evening at 6:00 EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

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