Deathwatch (film)

A 1966 English language film directed by Vic Morrow.

While incarcerated in a hellish French prison, petty thief Lefranc (Leonard Nimoy) competes with his cellmate Maurice (Paul Mazursky) for the attentions of their third cellmate, the murderer Greeneyes (Michael Forest).


 * Everyone Wants Bad Boys: Greeneyes is in for murder; Lefranc and Maurice are both in for lesser crimes. Neither one can stop talking about how awesome Greeneyes is.
 * Character Filibuster: Greeneyes.
 * Flash Back: To the robbery that landed Lefranc in prison.
 * Ho Yay
 * Murder the Hypotenuse:
 * Selective Obliviousness: Greeneyes assumes that when his cellmates look at him in a not-quite-heterosexual way, it's because they're imagining what his girlfriend looks like.
 * Selective Obliviousness: Greeneyes assumes that when his cellmates look at him in a not-quite-heterosexual way, it's because they're imagining what his girlfriend looks like.