This is an ill-conceived account of the escape from Durham prison of notorious armed robber John McVicar. The Who's Roger Daltrey was one of the producers and the band had a hand in the noisy, inappropriate rock score. Daltrey also attempts the role of McVicar, while another pop singer, Adam Faith, plays his mate, Walter. Tom Clegg directs it all in slam-bang Sweeney style but you can't help feeling that British producers should leave jail-break yarns to the Americans. It might have been a lot more interesting to learn how McVicar turned his criminal life around and came to gain his BSc in the clink (this is merely a revelation in the film's end credits).

John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the true story of his life, his criminal exploits and his eventual rehabilitation.