Directed by Sidney Poitier. Stars Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as New Yorkers who head west and end up in an Arizona prison for a crime they didn't commit.
Gene Wilder shows a cartoonish ability to ride a mechanical bull. He and Pryor and some prisoners they befriended plan to escape during an inter-prison inmate rodeo the warden forces him to participate in.
I've seen the same problem in other prison escape comedies. In this one, they befriend an enormous terrifying mass murderer (Erland van Lidth) who killed his extended family then murdered people who reminded him of his family. He's a great help to them as they break out, but they leave him behind without a thought. They couldn't very well unleash him on the world, but it seems rude to just leave him.
They did help Georg Stanford Brown escape. He said he murdered his stepfather.
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