[[quoteright:258:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deathwatch_1965_film.jpg]]

A 1966 American independent drama film directed by Creator/VicMorrow, based on the 1949 French play ''Haute Surveillance'' by Creator/JeanGenet.

While incarcerated in a hellish French prison, petty thief Lefranc (Creator/LeonardNimoy) competes with his cellmate Maurice (Creator/PaulMazursky) for the [[HoYay attentions]] of their third cellmate, the murderer Greeneyes (Michael Forest).

----
!!This movie provides examples of :

* CharacterFilibuster: Greeneyes.
%%* DownerEnding
* {{Flashback}}: To the robbery that landed Lefranc in prison.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Lefranc finally snaps and strangles Maurice.]]
* OneWordTitle:
* SelectiveObliviousness: Greeneyes assumes that when his cellmates ''look'' at him in a not-quite-heterosexual way, it's [[invoked] because they're imagining what his girlfriend looks like.
----