#Escaped from Alcatraz

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Updated photos of the three inmates who escaped from Alcatraz on June 11, 1962 and were never heard from again. The government and Alcatraz officials would like you to think these men died in the bitter cold water, but a letter from one, and a postcard from another sent over 10 years later makes it look like they lived after their escape. The most credible proof was a photo taken in 1975 by a childhood friend of the Anglin brothers when they were last seen in a bar in Brazil. The FBI still hasn't given up looking for them even though each would be between 90 and 100 years old. Frank Lee Morris born September 1, 1926. John William Anglin, born May 2, 1930. Clarence Anglin, born May 11, 1931.

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Escape from alcatrraz 1979

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Escape from Alcatraz, Italian lobby card (fotobusta), 1979

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If you can excuse the bad rhyme, here's my 'Old Thunder' in a field of flowers. It would make him think twice before setting my blog on fire.

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Clint Eastwood Escape From Alcatraz, 1979

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Escape From Alcatraz (1979)

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I been trying to draw more people lately, but also legs make posing folks very awkward for me, so I threw @mr-orion’s OC Mzamaki and my own Alcatraz Escapee-turned San Francisco Bay cryptid Frank Morris into said bay to get over the whole leg problem. I also gave Mzamaki a shirt and some jewelry, mostly because I just wanted to draw more clothes, but also because the Bay is bloody freezing when it’s not the height of summer, and unless you’ve got the cold resistance of a polar bear, you want at least a little protection from the chill. Frank also has eyes now. He never lost them, I just don’t like drawing eyes really tiny. Also magic broken handcuffs and shackles. For reasons.

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aka the best song from this movie (also idc if it was nominated for a razzie, no sweeter cheater than you was not a bad song, at least not when i heard it)

bonus:

"weeee"

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Escape from Alcatraz (1979, Don Siegel)

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Thoughts on Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

Tonight's movie was Escape from Alcatraz (my dumb ass kept calling it Escape from Azkaban in my head).

All in all, it's a solid prison break movie with a lot of great performances and appropriately claustrophobic atmosphere. It's very slow-paced and methodical, with a bare minimum of melodramatics, and while this has led some to dismiss it as "boring," I liked the sober presentation and admired the ingenuity of the characters.

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1979 - Clint Eastwood (Frank Morris) et Patrick McGoohan (le Directeur de la prison) dans L’ÉVADÉ D’ALCATRAZ de Don Siegel / 1979 - Clint Eastwood (Frank Morris) and Patrick McGoohan (the Warden) in ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ by Don Siegel.

Pour voir la vidéo : L'essentiel sur L’ÉVADÉ D’ALCATRAZ de Don Siegel présenté par Fabrice Calzettoni. / To see the video : The Essentiel on ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ by Fabrice Calzettoni

Chaîne : L’ESSENTIEL SUR LE CINÉMA

L’essentiel sur Clint Eastwood

Texte : Fabrice Calzettoni © sgdl 2022

Fabrice Calzettoni est responsable de la médiation culturelle à l'Institut Lumière et au Festival Lumière, Lyon. Il est animateur des ciné-conférences.

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Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

From The Shawshank Redemption to The Great Escape, stories of innocent or righteous people scratching together the means to regain their freedom is both captivating and emotional. Unlike most films, Escape from Alcatraz doesn’t “cheat” by giving us a softie of a protagonist. Without a doubt, the people in this film deserve to be jailed. Ultimately, you don't care because of the ingenuity in their plan and the fact that it’s based on a real-life story. Tense all the way through and with a terrific ending, it’s one of the best prison escape films.

In early 1960, Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood) is sentenced to the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island. Having escaped capture many times, Frank is undeterred by the exceedingly high security measures and strict warden (Patrick McGoohan) who assures him no one’s ever made it out.

Alcatraz isn’t merely a prison; it’s a hell hole. While there are some who certainly deserve everything the guards and warden throw at the inmates, such as a rapist called Wolf (Bruce M. Fischer), many of the prisoners are sympathetic; victims of an unfair system (Paul Benjamin is serving dual life sentences for killing two white men in self-defence) or clearly reformed by the time we meet them. Alcatraz doesn’t see it that way. The objective is not to rehabilitate. It’s to make lives miserable. In fact, the warden makes a point to punish those he oversees based on how he feels about them rather than the way the justice system sees them. He’s not a cartoon but his smugness means he deserves to be knocked down a peg. That’s where Morris comes in. The odds are stacked against our protagonist. It’ll take inhuman levels of ingenuity to escape from the prison. Some of his tactics are so wild, it’ll make you feel like a moron. You think the operation will be as simple as Morris, his accomplices John and Clarence Anglin (Fred Ward and Jack Thibeau) and the fourth conspirator, Charley Butts (Larry Hankin) stealing a power tool to break through the bars at night but no. They’re going to have to MAKE the tools they need - out of nothing.

The space the escapees have to maneuver in is so tight, you’re constantly wondering what will go wrong. Clever as it might be, their plan is literally put together with bits of loose paper, paint, and mud. It just barely crosses the line into doable and the tiniest detail out of place will make the whole thing fall apart. While there might not be anything that prevents them from trying again should they fail, so much effort is being put into this attempt you can’t bear the idea of it failing. You want to see the phases work just so you can see what to see what comes next.

It’s probably better that you don’t know beforehand what actually happened on the night of June 11, 1962. The FBI’s position on the events are clear and unfortunately, they don’t make for a cinematic ending. This is where the film proves to be as ingenious as its protagonist. It’s a terrific final note.

Escape from Alcatraz deftly maneuvers over the obstacles it might’ve faced to deliver wall-to-wall thrills. Against all odds, you like the characters. You like them even more when you see what kind of plan they’ve got cooked up and you can’t wait to see it executed. It's one of these stories that's so wild it HAS to be true, which makes it a real nail-biter. (March 27, 2020)

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Escape from Alcatraz, Italian lobby card (fotobusta), 1979

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I was today years old when I learned that the Escape From Pelican Rock island in poptropica was based on the VERY REAL 1962 ESCAPE ATTEMPT FROM ALCATRAZ

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Happy birthday, Clint Eastwood! Here's some art inspired by the Dollars trilogy, Where Eagles Dare, and Dirty Harry art!