I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

A lot of fun.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

"The Prisoner" is a tour de force between two superlative actors Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins. It's an unusual sort of movie in that it is set in an unnamed communist country following WWII and all of the characters do not have names.A Cardinal (Alec Guinness) is arrested for treason against the government. He had been a hero of the resistance against the Germans in WWII and now is accused of rallying the people against the new totalitarian regime. He is to be question by master interrogator Jack Hawkins.Over a period of three months the interrogator tries to break the priest's resolve and force him to sign a bogus confession of his guilt. He uses sleep deprevation, relentless badgering, bright lights and even bringing the Cardinal' s mother into play. But the Cardinal is the interrogator's equal in intelligence.Eventually the Cardinal's own self doubts are brought to the forefront and he is broken and put on trial. He is found guilty and is sentenced to death but..................................................................................................................The ending of the movie is particularly poignant leaving the question: Did anyone really win this verbal battle of the minds?Although this is essentially a two actor performance, there are some interesting supporting players as well. Wilfred Lawson plays the somewhat likeable jailer, Kenneth Griffith is Hawkins ambitious secretary, Jeanette Stark and Ronald Lewis play a young couple trying to make sense of it all and Raymond Huntley is the General.The story was supposedly based on the Cardinal Mindszenty trial in Hungary in 1948.

because it is a great artistic duel between Alec Guiness and Jack Hawkins, remembering, in few scenes, "Beckett". because the performance of Wilfrid Lawson is really seductive. because it use as symbol, maybe, the example of Jozsef Mindszenty, Archibishop of Esztergom, but, in same measure , it is an inspired story about the conflict between the State and the Church under Communism. it represents one of of films with a precise target. almost a refuge. because it is slow, uncomfortable, simple and far to give answers. one of films who must see it. because it is a large window to the essential things defining each of us.

It is difficult to understand why the producers thought that this talky snail pace drama was more appropriate to the cinema than TV.Didn't cinemas already have enough problems without screening this hall clearing feature.In fact the only reason that I watched it was to see one of my favourite actors,Wilfred Lawson.there sure enough he was acting his socks off whilst Alec Guiness was doing his silent bit.He lights up every scene he appears in.He has this funny knack of starting each sentence on a high note and working his way down.As for the rest of the film,sorry to say it is a total bore.Jack Hawkins was always watchable but Alec Guiness I find a little of him goes a long way.Guiness is not necessarily good for you.

'The Prisoner,'is a film version of the play by the same title, and is widely based on the life of Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary. It addresses the topic of religious freedom and therefore, also authentic human rights. Alec Guinness in the role of a Catholic cardinal and Jack Hawkins as his interrogator who represents an atheist, totalitarian state (i.e. a state under communism) are brilliant. The supporting actors are also excellent. The film is tense; it addresses man's inhumanity to man (Jack Hawkins) and the frailty of the human spirit when it is subjected to physical, emotional and mental torture (Alec Guinness). It is the story of one man's battle to preserve his interior freedom and every man's battle with himself; and it shows how a good man's courage and even his frailty unwittingly change the lives of his interrogator, his jailer and a guard. The film's one weakness was that the cardinal's appearance did not adequately reflect the horrific torture to which he was subjected: though tortured for months on end, he is always clean-shaven and there is no gradual deterioration to give credence to his utter physical and mental exhaustion.That said, I loved the film and found it very moving, particularly the scene close to the end when the cardinal looks into the guard's eyes and humbly says 'Try not to judge the Priesthood by the priest.' (It is necessary to have watched the film to understand the poignancy of this remark which cleverly responds to a comment made earlier by the guard).