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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.
The federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, nicknamed The Rock, stopped operating as a prison in 1963, the year after the men’s escape (Courtesy of San Francisco Public Library)
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 ...
The Battle of Alcatraz was dramatized in the 1987 TV movie Six Against the Rock, based on the novel by Clark Howard. While most of the characters were given the names of the real inmates (such as Bernard Coy and Miran Thompson ), Carnes' character was renamed Dan Durando, portrayed by Paul Sanchez.
Athlete A was an official selection at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and shed light on the shocking crimes that rocked the gymnastics world. Watch Athlete A on Netflix This Is a Robbery: The ...
On March 21, 1963, Alcatraz closed its doors as a prison after 29 years of operation. It eventually reopened to the public as a tourist attraction in October 1973.
Ai Weiwei. Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly is a 2019 American documentary film about the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, and his art exhibition at Alcatraz, a former prison on an island near San Francisco, California, USA.
Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in an Italian prison following the 2007 murder of her roommate, a fellow exchange student. She was exonerated in 2015. This doc features interviews with Knox ...