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New Alcatraz (named Boa on VHS and DVD), is a 2002 American direct-to-video science fiction action horror film. It was directed by Phillip Roth and starred Dean Cain . In the middle of Antarctica, a high maximum-security prison called New Alcatraz has recently become operational.
Gary Ballard as Terrence Swenson, an Alcatraz guard. Randy Pelish as Wimer, an Alcatraz guard. Neil Summers as Whitney, an Alcatraz guard. Sonny King as Wimer, an Alcatraz guard. Theo Mayes as a prison barber; Wally Rose as the shopkeeper of a grocery store that Henri tries to rob. Eve Brenner as Winthrop's secretary; Clay Davis as courtroom ...
Alcatraz gained notoriety from its inception as the toughest prison in the U.S., considered by many the world's most fearsome prison of the day. Former prisoners reported brutality and inhumane conditions which severely tested their sanity. [13] [14] [15] Ed Wutke was the first prisoner to commit suicide in Alcatraz.
Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison thriller film [3] [4] [5] directed and produced by Don Siegel. The screenplay, written by Richard Tuggle , is based on the 1963 non-fiction book of the same name by J. Campbell Bruce, which recounts the 1962 prisoner escape from the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island .
In the 1979, Don Siegel-Clint Eastwood film Escape from Alcatraz, Persful's hand mutilation was enacted in the movie. This scene is disputed due to the fact that the lead up to the June 1962 escape from Alcatraz actually took place nearly 25 years later, and neither Frank Morris or Clarence and John Anglin were imprisoned at Alcatraz when the ...
John Knight Giles (February 16, 1895 – February 8, 1979) was an inmate at Alcatraz prison, most well known for an escape attempt in 1945. [1] [2] [3] He was originally sentenced to the United States Penitentiary on May 11, 1935, for attempted robbery of the Denver and Rio Grande Western mail train; he had previously been serving a life sentence in Oregon for murder before escaping.
At the southernmost tip of Argentina's Patagonia sits 'the prison of the end of the world.' The country banished prisoners here in the early 1900s to colonize the region.
In The Escapists one of the maps HMP Irongate is based on Alcatraz. Alcatraz is also a DLC prison. In Guitar Hero 3, Alcatraz is a part of the venues of this game, renamed to Shanker's Island; In Sonic Adventure 2, Prison Island is a major location, being where Sonic is locked up. This is meant to reference Alcatraz Island and its prison.