Stuff You Should Know's Prison Movie Quiz

Who can forget the classic scene in which the evil chain gang boss tells Cool Hand Luke, "What we got here is failure to communicate."

As Red tells you, it was 500 yards, or the length of five football fields.

Robert Redford's character does something unconventional alright: He goes undercover as a prisoner to see how they're mistreated.

In one of the nastiest scenes in movie history, Edward Norton has his rivals "bite the curb" and then kicks the back of their head.

Sean Penn was a bad boy for sure. He used a pillowcase full of canned sodas to take care of business.

Poor Doc. All he had in Alcatraz was his painting. When they were taken away, he cut off his own fingers to get back at the evil guard.

Burt played football in college, so he liked to work the sport into his movies whenever he could. In this case, he mounted a prisoner team to play the guards.

Quentin Tarantino referenced Charles Bronson's character's tunnel digging skills in a crude scene from his own movie "Reservoir Dogs."

A true American, McQueen used a baseball and mitt to pass the time while in the "hole."

Steve McQueen must have liked prison movies. He was Hoffman's co-star in "Papillon" after his turn in "The Great Escape."

Busey would be a good choice for a crazy warden, but if you want to order up some evil, look no further than Gary Oldman.

Billy makes the grave mistake of taping about two kilos of hashish to his body. And when we say grave mistake, we mean it.

"Stir Crazy" starred Wilder and Pryor, but it was directed by film legend Sidney Poitier.

On the show, Chuck cites Steve Buscemi's "Animal Factory" as the most realistic prison movie he's seen.

Burt and company were known not as the Mean Mothers, but the Mean Machine.

Tough one, huh? The movie the inmates watch in "Shawshank" is the 1946 Rita Hayworth film "Gilda."

Winning two Bafta awards for cinematography and screenplay, "The Hill" depicted British soldiers held in a Libyan prison.

Along with "The Shawshank Redemption," "The Green Mile" was a story originally conceived of by author Stephen King.

If you've seen "Caged Heat" then you know it's one of the best examples of the many "women in prison" exploitation movies.

Very true -- there was only one escape in the history of the prison island, and Eastwood brought the story to the silver screen.

Robbins directed Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon in his death row downer "Dead Man Walking."

Based on a true story, Washington portrayed Rubin "Hurricane" Carter in the movie of the same name. That's the truth, Ruth.

The song, also whistled in "The Breakfast Club," was the "Colonel Bogey March." The movie was "The Bridge on the River Kwai."

Director Werner Herzog directed a documentary called "Little Dieter Needs to Fly." He later remade the true story as the feature film "Rescue Dawn."

In almost every prison movie, you'll hear the new inmates referred to as "fish" or "new fish."

Real-life warden Thomas O. Murton did his best to reform two prisons in Arkansas. But he was no Robert Redford.

Stroud, famous for his love of birds, was played by actor Burt Lancaster in "Birdman of Alcatraz."

Along with the late Raul Julia, William Hurt starred as a gay inmate in the Brazilian prison movie "Kiss of the Spider Woman."

Day Lewis portrayed Gerry Conlon, a man unjustly convicted for a pub bombing as part of "The Guildford Four."

You have to pay attention, but Andy's fellow inmates down Stroh's in the famous rooftop scene.