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Eventually ramrod became personified, taking on the added meaning of `one marked by rigidity, stiffness, and severity,' even though the original ramrods, which were straight, were rather flexible.
The script, credited to Larry Gross, Paul Brickman, and Stephen Schiff (from a potboiler by Andrew Klavan), is often laughably schematic, but much of what's outside its ramrod narrative is masterfully orchestrated: the physical exam on Beachum that begins the film (he's in perfect health to be killed), the meetings between the warden and his guards on execution procedure, the testing of the different colored phones--one connected to the governor's office--outside the lethal injection chamber.
ramrod A ramrod is a rod of wood or metal for ramming the ball and patch down the barrel of a muzzleloading firearm and setting them against the main powder charge.