Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

MARIO GAUCI The celebrated Dreyfus affair of turn-of-the-20th-century France gets the British TV treatment courtesy of one of its past masters, Ken Russell (thankfully restrained), and starring a famous (and alleged) relative of the man himself, American actor Richard Dreyfuss (albeit playing a different role)! Although in the past there had been more prestigious film versions of the case – most notably THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA (1937) which even earned the Best Picture Oscar of that year – the starry cast roped in for this modest production delivers the goods nevertheless and keeps one watching: apart from the afore-mentioned Dreyfuss, we also get Russell regular Oliver Reed, Peter Firth, Jeremy Kemp, Brian Blessed, Peter Vaughan and even iconoclastic film-maker Lindsay Anderson making one of his infrequent appearances as an actor and being entrusted with the important role of the Minister of War! Oddly enough, despite the on screen title of the film being PRISONERS OF HONOR, every online reference to it (including the IMDb) seems to drop the final 's' and turn it into singular!

turing77 I saw this film when it first came out in 1991. It features a theme common to most HBO original movies: prejudice and bigotry directed towards minorities. Unlike nearly all of those other films, however, this one isn't pedantic or cloying; Prisoner of Honor is the one that HBO "got right". Credit must go to the director, and to a fine cast. Richard Dreyfuss gives his best screen performance, bar none. A very entertaining film, and one that might spark an interest in history.

stuhh2001 There is more than enough intensity of emotion in this overlooked movie to suit me. The acting is quite good. What else do you expcct from British stage pros? I wonder if Richard Dreyfuss had the good sense to be scared sh..... to go in with these guys? Afterall this is not a rock and roll sitcom that Dreyfuss excells at. I think he did quite well. I am not a rah rah, temple attending Jew, looking for anti=semitism everywhere, but I think it worthwhile every generation, to remind everyone that in France about a century ago, the army knowingly sent an innocent man to disgrace in Devil's Island, and attempted to let the German spy in their ranks go free, just so they could, "Get the Jew". This was "honor", according to the French army. I love the country, the culture, and have been a tourist there and will go again, but I think we have to remember that when the Nazis marched in in 1940, there were a lot of people that were not that unhappy, to see them, and Nazi officers did not want for bedmates, from shopgirls to movie stars. There was an active and brave resistance(would you risk your neck against the Gestapo) but we have to be realistic about France's paradoxical attitude toward's the Nazis. I highly recommend this movie which may be the last appearance of the great Bill Sikes from "Oliver", Oliver Reed, may he rest in peace.

dobbs-12 how in the name of movie making could richard make such a boring movie about a relative of his that was "given the shaft" because of his heritage? a big disappointment. if my relative was treated the way richard's was i would be darn sure the world would feel his suffering, pain, abuse and heartbreak caused by his peers and those over him in the military. dick, do it over, do it right and this time put some real electricity in it.