12/28/2023 0 Comments Film escape from alcatraz![]() But the best thing about Litmus is his pet mouse, who he even takes into the shower and scrubs with soap. The guy he happens to be sitting across from is Litmus (Frank Ronzio, FEAR CITY), who will end up being important for acquiring contraband, and he also has a funny scene where he convinces a new fish that he’s Al Capone. “We don’t make good citizens, but we make good prisoners,” he brags.įrank doesn’t speak until ten minutes into the movie, when he’s in the mess hall and notices they don’t have forks. The warden (Patrick McGoohan, THE PHANTOM) calls Frank into his office to communicate that this is not like those other horrible prisons, this is way worse. To see Clint motherfuckin Eastwood buckle down for something so dumb, it’s dispiriting. When he arrives, the “bulls” as they call them strip him down and make him walk through the prison naked, but to me the best little detail to capture the inhumanity of prison is when a guard says threateningly “Better button your collar, boy,” and he doesn’t flip any attitude, he hurriedly complies. It starts with him on a boat, carried over the treacherous waters he’ll later try to cross without such luxury. Man, prison tours are fucked up.Ĭlint stars as Frank Morris, transferred to “The Rock” after escaping from what sounds like multiple other prisons. I remember going on a tour of that place as a kid and hearing the story. Three guys got out, they may very well have drowned, but they were never found. It’s based on the true story of the only maybe successful escape from the notorious island prison. (Siegel’s only subsequent movies were ROUGH CUT starring Burt Reynolds and JINXED! starring Bette Midler.) ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ is from 1979 and it was the last of Clint’s five movies directed by Don Siegel, because they had a falling out over which one of them got to produce it. It would be hard to argue that any “good luck” panned out in some of those years, and yet I will stubbornly continue the tradition. So then I ended up kicking off 2014 writing about A PERFECT WORLD, 2015 with THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, 2016 with KELLY’S HEROES, 2017 with PINK CADILLAC, 2018 with TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA, 2019 with THE MULE, 2020 with WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART and 2021 with THE GAUNTLET. On JanuI reviewed the movie TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE, and made up a superstition that it’s good luck for movie critics to start a year with a Clint Eastwood review.
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