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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