Jailbirds (1991)
The made-for-TV Jailbirds is a distaff comedy variation on The Defiant Ones. Phylicia Rashad plays an important LA business executive, while Dyan Cannon portrays a trailer-trash babe from Louisiana. Both Rashad and Cannon are thrown into a dank Southern jail for crimes they didn't commit. While manacled together, the ladies escape, driving each other cuckoo as they elude their captors. Apparently, CBS had so little faith in Jailbirds that the network hardly bothered to advertise the film went it premiered May 16, 1991. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Burt Brinckerhoff
Synopsis of Jailbirds
The made-for-TV Jailbirds is a distaff comedy variation on The Defiant Ones. Phylicia Rashad plays an important LA business executive, while Dyan Cannon portrays a trailer-trash babe from Louisiana. Both Rashad and Cannon are thrown into a dank Southern jail for crimes they didn't commit. While manacled together, the ladies escape, driving each other cuckoo as they elude their captors. Apparently, CBS had so little faith in Jailbirds that the network hardly bothered to advertise the film went it premiered May 16, 1991. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Jailbirds
- Phylicia Rashad - Janice Grant
- Maria Arita - Kelli
- Ritch Brinkley - Beetle
- Wayne de Hart - Mel
- Vernon Grote - Huge Patrolman
- Grainger Hines - Jimmy Lee
- Dennis Letts - Poppa
- Ahmad Rashad - Larry Braddock
- Suzanne Savoy - Grace
- Jeanne Evans - Momma
- Dyan Cannon - Rosie LaCroix
- Joe Berryman - Wallace Crenshaw
- Clyde Kusatsu - Kasaki
- Dorothy Deavers - Woman
- Anne Haney - Haydee
- David Knell - Baxter
- Dakin Matthews - Sheriff
- T.E. Russell - Clemmons
- Bethany Wright - Loretta
- Spencer Prokop - Bernie
- Director(s):
- Burt Brinckerhoff
- Producer(s):
- James L. Conway
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