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Box office. $43 million [2] 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.
List of Alcatraz escape attempts. 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 the prison made by 34 prisoners during this time. [1] Two men tried twice, making for a total of 36 individual escape attempts; fifteen were caught, eight gave ...
Escape from Alcatraz is a 1963 non-fiction book, ... which became the basis for the film Escape from Alcatraz in 1979. Current edition ...
The 1962 escape from Alcatraz by three prisoners immediately became the stuff of legend – and quickly film – that has never been fully explained. A new book about brothers John and Clarence ...
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Tucker Prison Farms. McNeil Island Prison. Rufe Persful (May 25, 1906 – May 16, 1991) was an American criminal, convicted of murder, kidnapping and robbery. He was considered one of the most dangerous criminals of his era by the authorities. Convicted of the murder and robbery of an elderly man at the age of 18 ...
John William Anglin (born May 2, 1930) and Clarence Anglin (born May 11, 1931) were born into a family of 14 children in Donalsonville, Georgia.Their parents, George Robert Anglin and Rachael Van Miller Anglin, were seasonal farmworkers; in the early 1940s, they moved the family to Ruskin, Florida, 20 miles (32 km) south of Tampa, where the truck farms and tomato fields provided a more ...
Forrest Tucker (criminal) Forrest Silva " Woody " Tucker (June 23, 1920 – May 29, 2004) was an American career criminal first imprisoned at age 15 who spent the rest of his life in and out of jail. [3] He is best known as an escape artist, having escaped from prison "18 times successfully and 12 times unsuccessfully", by his own reckoning. [3]
John Knight Giles (February 16, 1895 – February 8, 1979) was an inmate at Alcatraz prison, most well known for an escape attempt in 1945. [1] [2] [3] He was originally sentenced to the United States Penitentiary on May 11, 1935, for attempted robbery of the Denver and Rio Grande Western mail train; he had previously been serving a life sentence in Oregon for murder before escaping.