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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.
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 ...
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 Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010), Mr. Tinkles was locked up in a hidden prison on Alcatraz Island as a mental patient. Escape from Alcatraz (1979), starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Don Siegel; Half Past Dead (2002) action movie starring Steven Seagal, setting of the movie is at a modern Alcatraz; King of Alcatraz (1938 ...
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)
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.
Six Against the Rock is a 1987 American film on TV about the Battle of Alcatraz, [1] based on Clark Howard's book about the aborted 1946 escape attempt. [2] Cast