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. This story will appeal to Bay Area locals and tourists alike.Īlcatraz hosts more than a million visitors each year.‘Escape from Alcatraz’: Stay for this solid prison movie Includes archival photos of the prison and prison life. The true-crime classic first published in 1963 is reissued in this special edition.
Discover the intriguing and absorbing saga of Alcatraz, whose name is still synonymous with punitive isolation and deprivation, where America’s most violent and notorious prisoners resided in tortuous proximity to one of the world’s favorite cities. The chapters describing the daring escape attempts by Frank Morris and two accomplices from this “inescapable” prison became the basis for the 1979 Clint Eastwood movie. Campbell Bruce chronicles in spellbinding detail the Rock’s transition from a Spanish fort to the maximum-security penitentiary that housed such infamous inmates as Robert Stroud, aka the Birdman of Alcatraz, and mobster Al “Scarface” Capone.
In 1963, just weeks before the original publication of this book, the last prisoner was escorted off Devil’s Island and Alcatraz ceased to be a prison.
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