Mrs. Soffel (1984) (MOD) "Looney Tunes"

Mrs. Soffel (1984) (MOD) "Looney Tunes"No one thought death row inmate Ed Biddle would escape the hangman's noose. Most of all, no one in 1901 Pittsburgh imagined his accomplice in a daring jailbreak would be Kate Soffel, the warden's wife. Directed by Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career, 1994's Little Women), Mrs. Soffel is the astonishing true story of two people, two prisons. One inmate is handsome, desperate Ed (Mel Gibson), who, along with his brother Jack (Matthew Modine),

the star earned his Euro Western spurs playing mixed-race twin brothers: drifter Johnny Moon and Comanche renegade Notah

Mamie Van Doren - "built like a platinum powerhouse" the film's publicity raved - and Lori Nelson portray the sisters

Techno-terrorists with a shocking link to the past

is freed from his slumber

a duck teaching chickens to swim

Ping-ponging between the two men

with 16 song -and-dance numbers that run the gamut from "Yankee Doodle Dandy" to "Hoe Down" to the Oscar®-nominated "How About You

it's a bold

using sound waves to call the dogs

cat-loving confirmed bachelor Simon Haldane (Horton) is used to having his excellent ideas ignored by his abusive boss Trundle (E

Joe's not all bad

Off the court