Image in my mind from a movie but I can't place it

June 25, 2015 3:54 PM

It's a crowd of men who are going around in a circle, maybe around a wooden wheel. Anyone? It takes place in a prison, I believe, and a bunch of men are going around and around crammed together. It is not Midnight Express. Thanks!
posted by Jandoe to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

Best answer: four Feathers?
posted by Ginesthoi at 3:58 PM on June 25, 2015 [2 favorites]

That happens at the beginning of the first Conan movie. When Conan is a boy, he's one of a crowd running the wheel. After he grows up we see him alone running it. I think they used it as an explanation for how Conan (Schwarzenegger) became so strong and muscular, since of course there weren't any injectible steroids in that era.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 3:59 PM on June 25, 2015 [8 favorites]

Not a movie, but I'm almost positive there's a scene like this in Downton Abbey.
posted by silverstatue at 6:17 PM on June 25, 2015

Ok, I checked Downton Abbey and there's a scene with men in prison walking around the courtyard in a circle, but there's no actual wheel. If that's close enough, it's Season 3, episode 6. I will me-mail you a link and you can see if that's the scene you're remembering.
posted by silverstatue at 6:31 PM on June 25, 2015

Response by poster: It was Four Feathers! Thanks, everyone for your help.
posted by Jandoe at 8:46 PM on June 25, 2015

More like this: the painting by Van Gogh which was emulated briefly in A Clockwork Orange.
posted by Rash at 10:26 PM on June 25, 2015