
TT Film Fest Film of the Day Thurs 20th
Thursday, September 20, 2018 Filed in: BC on TV
Today’s film is:
Hall (Rommel Hall/ 2017/ Barbados / Documentary feature / 95 mins/ Unrated), 6pm Sc 8, MovieTowne POS.
filmmaker Rommel Hall’s documentary about Barbados’ best known – and,
it has to be said, best-loved – convicted murderer and jailbreaker is
remarkable.Classified as a “true crime documentary” it is far closer to a
true social mirror.Hall, who escaped from Bridgetown’s Glendairy Prison
three times, was one of three young men convicted, probably under what
lawyers call “the felony-murder rule”, of the murder of Cyril Sisnett,
at Sisnett’s Francia Plantation Great House.
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