![]() ![]() No, most of our experiences take empathetic turns for Frank and his equally-orphaned cohorts…in their indoor existences. Frank’s introduction to Alcatraz occurs at night, so we don’t gather a real perspective of the pen’s external identity at first. Siegel – who filmed at Paramount Studios and on location - spends more time inside rather than outside the prison’s shell. Each detainee lives in a lonely, individual 10-foot by 4.5-foot cell. The interior decor doesn’t ease anxieties either, as this maximum-security institution can house up to 450 inmates, but don’t expect marathon Monopoly matches, card games or group caucuses that go deep into the night. Austria’s lofty castle spurned invaders for hundreds of years, but Alcatraz encloses its tenants with gapless tentacles of fortified construction, manned by an army of guards and surrounded by an enormous, shark-filled moat. In director Don Siegel’s “Escape from Alcatraz”, Warden (without a surname) tells his newest resident Frank Morris, “No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz, and no one ever will.”įrom a distance, this steel and concrete stronghold might resemble the Hohensalzburg Fortress’ troubled kid brother. Today, Alcatraz plays the role of a benign tourist destination, as 1.5 million annual visitors explore the island – that sits over a mile from San Francisco’s shores - but back in 1960, just about everyone deemed Alcatraz a feared, inescapable edifice. Not one moment on this trip, however, can be defined as voluntary, because an exasperated legal system threw their collective hands in the air and banished Frank – a convict with burglary, armed robbery and grand larceny perched on his criminal record, along with a history of prison breaks – to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. 18, 1960 evening, Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood) takes a ferry across the San Francisco Bay, reaches land and then hops on a bus for a brief, lonely ride to his final destination. ![]() “Escape from Alcatraz” (1979) – “You’ve escaped from quite a few prisons, haven’t you? That’s why you’re here.” – Warden (Patrick McGoohan) Starring: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward, and Larry Hankin Written by: Richard Tuggle, based on the book by J. ‘Escape from Alcatraz’: Stay for this solid prison movie
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