• Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison action thriller film directed and co-produced by Don Siegel, written by Richard Tuggle, and starring Clint...
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  • Escape from Alcatraz is a 1963 non-fiction book, written by San Francisco Chronicle reporter John Campbell Bruce, about the history of Alcatraz Penitentiary...
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    John Anglin, and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison located on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California...
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    Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay was the site of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary between 1934 and 1963. There were a total of 14 escape attempts from...
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  • Escape from Alcatraz may also refer to: June 1962 Alcatraz escape, possibly the only successful escape attempt from the prison Escape from Alcatraz (triathlon)...
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    strong currents of San Francisco Bay, prison operators believed Alcatraz to be escape-proof and America's most secure prison. The three-story cellhouse...
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    The Battle of Alcatraz, which lasted from May 2 to 4, 1946, was the result of an escape attempt at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary by armed convicts. Two...
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  • administered by the Alcatraz "system". Four other prisoners attempted to escape Alcatraz with Young, not just two. One of the men omitted from the film (Dale Stamphill)...
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    You" at the Alcatraz prison. Escape from Alcatraz and The Rock are two films that show how inescapable the island is. Escape from Alcatraz is based on...
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  • fornicating. Many films and television series have exploited Alcatraz Island's reputation as a prison from which it was almost impossible to escape. For example:...
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  • Count of Monte Cristo backwards, Papillon backwards or Escape from Alcatraz backwards", the film is a Nostromo Pictures (Adrián Guerra and Núria Valls)...
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  • co-starring. In the film, the Pentagon assigns a team comprising an FBI chemist and a former SAS captain with a team of SEALs to break into Alcatraz, where a rogue...
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  • for Sister Sara (1970), and continuing with Dirty Harry (1971) and Escape from Alcatraz (1979). During the American Civil War in 1863, Amy, a 12-year-old...
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  • Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story is a 1980 American television film about Clarence Carnes, the youngest ever inmate of Alcatraz Prison. It screened...
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  • Florida. In the Alcatraz escape on June 11, 1962, American criminals brothers John and Clarence Anglin, and Frank Morris escaped Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary...
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  • the nature of prisons, such as A Man Escaped, Cool Hand Luke, Midnight Express, Brubaker, Escape from Alcatraz, The Shawshank Redemption, and Kiss of...
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    Larry Hankin (category American male film actors)
    is an American character actor. He has had major film roles as Charley Butts in Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Ace in Running Scared (1986), and Carl Alphonse...
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    Henri Young (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
    of prison terms, attempted to escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary with four other inmates in 1939. During the escape attempt two inmates, Dale Stamphill...
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  • Clarence Carnes (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
    youngest inmate incarcerated at Alcatraz and for his participation in the bloody escape attempt known as the "Battle of Alcatraz". Clarence Carnes was born...
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  • from the film. The game's influences include the film Escape from Alcatraz, and video games such as Half-Life and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. Escape from...
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  • Roberts Blossom (category American male film actors)
    his supporting roles in films such as The Great Gatsby (1974), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Christine (1983)...
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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...
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  • Fred Ward (category American male film actors)
    Italian television movie in 1973, he appeared in such diverse films as Escape from Alcatraz, Southern Comfort, The Right Stuff, Timerider: The Adventure...
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  • Forrest Tucker (criminal) (category Escapes and escape attempts from Alcatraz)
    were informed by police. A former inmate of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, Tucker was able to escape from the authorities when he was temporarily moved...
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  • (1971), Dirty Harry (1971) and Escape from Alcatraz (1979). Eastwood plays the part of a veteran deputy sheriff from a rural county in Arizona who travels...
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    Bumpy Johnson (category Inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary)
    people. In the 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz, Paul Benjamin plays a character based on Bumpy Johnson, "English". In the 1984 film The Cotton Club, Laurence...
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  • escape (1944), known as the "Great Escape", a World War II mass escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III June 1962 Alcatraz escape...
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  • Don Siegel (category Film directors from Illinois)
    as well as five films with Clint Eastwood, including the police thriller Dirty Harry (1971) and the prison drama Escape from Alcatraz (1979). He also...
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  • sequels: Pythons 2 (2002), New Alcatraz (also known as Boa) and Boa vs. Python (2004), all of which are also made-for-TV films. A plane crashes near a town...
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    POWs assigned to the Alcatraz Gang, being so assigned for previous fierce resistance to their treatment and an unsuccessful escape from the Power Plant or...
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