Today’s film is a suspense movie with scenes set on June 12. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ
Morris arrives in Alcatraz and works in the library, then the carpentry shop. When he resists Wolfe’s homosexual advances both are locked in solitary. “Doc” a fellow prisoner has his painting privileges revoked and chops off own his fingers with an axe. Morris uses a home made knife to enlarge a vent and get out of his cell into a service area. He climbs to the top of the cellblock and cuts his way into a vent shaft that leads to the roof. There is a shakedown of his cell, but his camouflage of the opening is not discovered. Wolfe’s second attempt to kill him is stopped. The Anglin brothers and Morris exit their cells, leaving papier-mâché dummy heads in their beds to fool the guards. They climb to the roof of the cellblock, up the vent shaft and onto the roof. Early in the morning of June 12 1962 they clamber down the side of the building, cross the fence and enter the water on a raft made of raincoats. [1:32:58 to 1:49:18] The escape is discovered, but no trace of the three escapees is ever discovered.
A good escape story that holds your interest. The director does a good job of trying to get you to sympathize with the escapers and not the guards. Leaves unanswered the question of whether the three got away.
Breaking the Rock by Jolene Babyak (Ariel Vamp Press, Berkelry, Ca, 2001) at pages. 199-217 gives the date of the escape
Director - Don Siegel
Producer - Don Siegel
Screenplay - Richard Tuggle
Running Time – 1hour 52 minutes
Released - June 22, 1979
Starring -
Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris
Larry Hankin as Allen West
Jack Thibeau as Clarence Anglin
Fred Ward as John Anglin
Patrick McGoohan as Warden
Paul Benjamin as English
Frank Ronzio as Litmus
Roberts Blossom as Chester "Doc" Dalton
Bruce M. Fischer as Wolf Grace
Fred Stuthman as Johnson
David Cryer as Wagner
Madison Arnold as
Zimmerman
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.
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