Here is a movie with a scene that happens today - June 12. I hope you enjoy it and watch it tonight.
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 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 1963 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) pps. 199-217
Director - Don
Siegel
Producer - Don Siegel
Screenplay - Richard Tuggle
Running Time – 1 hour 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
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