Jackson County Jail is an American exploitation action thriller film from 1976 directed by Michael Miller

Michael Miller

- Entertainment :*Mike Miller , American guitarist*Mike S. Miller , comic artist and publisher*Mickey Miller, fictional character on the United Kingdom television series EastEnders, commonly known as Mike Miller...

, starring Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive....

, Yvette Mimieux

Yvette Mimieux

Yvette Carmen Mimieux is a retired American movie and television actress.-Early life and career:Yvette Mimieux was born in Los Angeles, California, to a French father and Mexican mother, Carmen Montemayor...

 and Lisa Copeland.

The film has become a cult movie. In 1996 it was selected by film director Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...

 for the first Quentin Tarantino Film Festival

Quentin Tarantino Film Festival

The Quentin Tarantino Film Festival, or QT-Fest, is a semi-annual film and multimedia event held by the Austin Film Society in Austin, Texas and attended by film director Quentin Tarantino. Most recently, the Alamo Drafthouse theater in downtown Austin, Texas has been the selected venue...

 in Austin, Texas.

Film critic Danny Peary

Danny Peary

Danny Peary is an American film critic and sports writer. He has written many books on cinema and sports-related topics.-Biography:...

lists the film as one of many "Must See" Films in his "Guide for the Film Fanatic" (1986). (http://filmfanatic.org/reviews/wp-static/fronttitles.html)