![]() Morris notices that the concrete around the grille in his cell is weak and can be chipped away, which evolves into an escape plan. Later, Morris encounters two bank robbers and brothers John and Clarence Anglin, who are his old friends from another prison sentence, and he links up with prisoner Charley Butts. Doc is depressed and in the prison workshop hacks off several fingers of his left hand with a hatchet before being led away. Enraged, the Warden removes Doc's painting privileges. The guards' paintings are flattering, recognizing their humanity, but the Warden's painting, which has been kept out of view, captures the ugliness of his cruelty. The Warden discovers that Doc has painted a portrait of him, as well as other guards. Both men are imprisoned in isolation in the hole. Morris also makes an enemy of Wolf, a rapist who harasses him in the showers and later attacks him in the prison yard with a knife. He makes a gift of one of the blossom heads to Morris. Doc's portraits contain chrysanthemums as a symbol of human spirit and freedom. Over the next days, Morris makes acquaintances with some inmates: the eccentric Litmus, who is fond of desserts English, a black inmate serving two life sentences for killing two white men in self-defense and the elderly Doc, who paints portraits and once grew chrysanthemums at Alcatraz. The day of his arrival, Morris steals a nail clipper from the Warden's desk. Alcatraz is unique within the US prison system for its high level of security, and no inmate has ever escaped. In early 1960 Frank Morris, a criminal who has absconded from other facilities, arrives at the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island. ![]() Campbell Bruce and based on the 1962 prisoner escape from the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island, marks the fifth and final collaboration between Siegel and Eastwood, following Coogan's Bluff (1968), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), The Beguiled (1971), and Dirty Harry (1971). The film, an adaptation of the 1963 non-fiction book of the same name by J. 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 Eastwood alongside Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, and Larry Hankin with Danny Glover appearing in his film debut.
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