They could have called this prison drama-cum-revenge thriller Each Dawn I Die if Cagney hadn't 'nicked' the title 50 years before.

Tom Selleck is an ordinary guy framed by two bent vice cops after they bust into his house by mistake and shoot him.

Unlikely it all is, but no more so than in Cagney's day when, like Tom, Jimmy was dragged off to serve six years screaming his innocence.

In prison, 'shivs' (short knives) are passed around to do unwanted convicts in, and Selleck has to learn to stand up for himself, with the help of veteran con F Murray Abraham, before getting out in one piece, on parole, to seek a desperate (and again unlikely) revenge on the cops who are still - foolishly - harassing him and his wife.

Not a very good movie, as you may have gathered, but certainly quite a watchable one, thanks to its gallery of familiar elements entertainingly put together.

Oh yes, and Selleck even does '90 days in the hole', emerging with a stubble and slight cough.

Like we said, some things never change, and perhaps it's not altogether a bad thing.