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The escape was the subject of a television movie in 2017, New York Prison Break: The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell. Penelope Ann Miller starred as Joyce Mitchell, with Matt played by Myk Watford and Joe Anderson as Sweat. It was directed and written by Stephen Tolkin, and aired on the Lifetime Network. [50] [51]
Escape from New York is a 1981 American independent science fiction action film co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau and Harry Dean Stanton.
Additional discussion related to this cleanup effort can be found at Talk:List of prison films#Post-rescope content cleanup. ( August 2021 ) This is a list of prison films — films which are primarily concerned with prison life or prison escape or have at least one memorable prison scene.
The seven-episode series is based on the true story of the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape in upstate New York. The breakout sparked a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers, Richard Matt and David Sweat, who were aided in their escape by Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell, a married prison employee entangled in secretive and inappropriate relationships with both men.
Escape (1948 film) Escape from Alcatraz (film) Escape from Fort Bravo; Escape from New York; Escape from Planet Earth; Escape from Pretoria; Escape from Segovia; Escape from Sobibor; Escape Plan (film) Escape Plan 2: Hades; Escape Plan: The Extractors; Eskapo; Eternity in Flames
Richard William “Rick” Matt (June 25, 1966 – June 26, 2015) [1] was an American murderer known for his prison escape, the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape.. A native of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area where he grew up in foster homes, Matt was a career criminal who had already served several prison terms for various crimes before he and an accomplice robbed ...
In the Libby Prison escape, during the American Civil War, over 109 Union POWs broke out of a building at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia on the night between 9 and 10 February 1864. Fifty-nine of the 109 prisoners successfully made it back to the Union lines; two were drowned in the nearby James River , and forty-eight were recaptured.
A prison film is a film genre concerned with prison life and often prison escape.These films range from acclaimed dramas examining the nature of prisons, such as A Man Escaped, Cool Hand Luke, Midnight Express, Brubaker, Escape from Alcatraz, The Shawshank Redemption, and Kiss of the Spider Woman to actioners like Lock Up and Undisputed, and even comedies satirizing the genre like Stir Crazy ...