| A rebellious convict is sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation in 1963 Oregon, and encourages his docile companions to take more control of their lives and defy the tyrannical head nurse. |
| Crime / DramaStuart Rosenberg W.D. Richter / Arthur A. Ross / Thomas O. Murton / Joe Hyams / Bob Rafelson The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. |
| A newly elected District Attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner. |
| A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. |