“Escape from Alcatraz” quotes
(1979)
Don Siegel
directed this movie
in 1979
Title Escape from Alcatraz
Year 1979
Director Don Siegel
Genre Drama, History, Crime, Thriller
Year 1979
Director Don Siegel
Genre Drama, History, Crime, Thriller
Plot – Frank Morris is a criminal who has tried many times to escape from the US prisons, so he's transferred to Alcatraz, which is impossible to escape from. Morris makes some friendships there: Doc, the shy painter that cuts his fingers when he's forbidden to paint; Litmus, an Italian guy who calls himself "Al Capone"; the black English who protects the newcomer; Clarley, the undecided one who won't escape with them. Frank faces Alcatraz's hardness and its director's inhumanity. When Clearence brothers and John Anglin arrive to the penitentiary, Morris carefully plans a new escape. When they're discovered, the director says the fugitives must be drowned in the bay to cover himself. When he's recalled to Washington, Alcatraz is dismantled and the jail becomes a tourist attraction.
All actors – Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward, Paul Benjamin, Larry Hankin, Bruce M. Fischer, Frank Ronzio, Fred Stuthman, David Cryer, Madison Arnold, Blair Burrows, Bob Balhatchet, Matthew Locricchio, Don Michaelian, Ray K. Goman, Jason Ronard, Ed Vasgersian, Ron Vernan, Regina Baff, Hank Brandt, Candace Bowen, Joe Miksak, Stephen Bradley, Garry Goodrow, Ross Reynolds, Al Dunlap, Denis Berkfeldt, Jim Haynie, Tony Dario, Fritz Manes, Dana Derfus, Don Cummins, Gordon Handforth, John Scanlon, Don Watters, Dan Leegant, Joe Knowland, James Collier, R.J. Ganzert, Robert Hirschfeld, Lloyd Nelson, George Orrison, Gary Warren, Joseph Whipp, Terry Wills, John Garabedian, Dale Alvarez, Sheldon Feldner, Danny Glover, Carl Lumbly, Patrick Valentino, Gilbert Thomas Jr., Eugene Jackson
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“- English: Ten years ago, I was in this bar in Alabama when two dudes started hassling me. That was their first mistake. They pulled knives. That was their second mistake. They didn't know how to use them. That was the last mistake they ever made. I got two 99-year sentences, back to back.
- Frank Morris: Seems like you could've pleaded...” (continue)(continue reading)“There's always the possibility that some asshole will be offended. Isn't there?”
“If you disobey the rules of society, they send you to prison; if you disobey the rules of the prison, they send you to US. Alcatraz is not like any other prison in the United States. Here, every inmate is confined alone... to an individual cell.”
“Some men are destined never to leave Alcatraz... alive.”
“- Clarence Anglin: Thought we'd pay you a visit.
- Frank Morris: Gonna stay long?
- John Anglin: Not long. Only about fifteen or twenty years.”“Sometimes I think that's all this place is. One... long... count. The prisoners count the hours, the bulls count the prisoners and the king bulls count the counts.”
“- Wagner: What'd you order this stuff for? You don't look like the painting type to me.
- Charley Butts: You wouldn't know talent if it looked you in the face.
- Wagner: Well I'm looking you in the face and I don't see jack shit.”“- Wolf: When I get out, you're dead!
- Prison Guard: You might be dead before you get out.”
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