Actor-turned-director Buscemi has gathered a formidable cast for what turns out to be a quality prison drama in which a young drug-dealer is befriended by a long-time con.

Back in the l960s, Bob Crane was the star of the TV series, Hogan's Heroes, about a group of Americans held in a German PoW camp. It was totally bereft of wit but it ran and ran and ran and was popular.

Spider-Man villain Willem Dafoe has a new bad guy role.