
20 Sep 1986

Down by Law
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Triad leader Roller and life-sentence inmate Scar maintain the balance of power as the bosses of the prison they're incarcerated at. Life at the prison gets disrupted by the arrival of new inmate Mak, who has run-ins with both Scar and Roller. With things going so badly for him in prison, Mak has no choice but to join in the breakout plot being hatched by Chan. However, Roller and Scar also end up being part of the plan!
Chan Ho Ching
Mak Kin Tin
Big Roller
Scar
May Ling
Chi Wing
Chickenshit Keung
Wing Ki
Yi
Warden Tang
Cheung Yuen
The groom
Tung
Hung
Ted
Wu Ming
Big Roller's subordinate
Big Roller's subordinate
Big Roller's subordinate
Scar's subordinate
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