Thursday, June 12, 2014

June 12 - Escape From Alcatraz

Today’s movie is an action suspense film with a scene that happens on June 12. I hope you will enjoy this film 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 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 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) at pages. 199-217 gives the date f 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 2014




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