Lockup: Tropes

Signature tropes

The ones that say the most about Lockup. Pick one to read it.

• Wardens Are Evilin 190 titlesWarden Drumgoole (played with gleefulsmugness by Donald Sutherland) has a grudge against Stallone's character Frank Leone for getting him demoted by successfully escaping a previous prison he was res…Read →
• False Confessionin 151 titlesSubverted as it's an attempt to claim that a genuine confession is actually false.Read →
• Restrained RevengeRare · in 42 titlesFrank Leone's style. He refuses to kill a murderer, settling for beating him up in front of the whole yard.Read →
• Tautological TemplarRare · in 52 titlesThe Warden is determined to destroy Frank's life.Read →
• Dead Man's Switchin 103 titlesIn the climax, Frank takes Drumgoole hostage and throws him into the reactivated electric chair in the prison's defunct death row section.Read →
• Revenge Myopiain 103 titlesDrumgoole wants to destroy Frank's life for humiliating him at Treadmore and getting the Warden transferred to the hellish Gateway Prison.Read →