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Alcatraz escape nears 50th anniversary
SF Gate ^ | 06/09/12 | Jill Tucker

Posted on 06/10/2012 4:41:48 PM PDT by DFG

Fifty years after three prisoners broke out of Alcatraz through a spoon-dug tunnel and launched a raft made of raincoats into the San Francisco Bay in a bid for freedom, a lone U.S. marshal is still looking for them.

Whether inmates Frank Morris, 35, John Anglin, 32, and his brother Clarence Anglin, 31, made it to safety on June 11, 1962, or sank to a watery grave is not known.

U.S. Marshal Michael Dyke, the only official investigator still assigned to the case, has an educated guess.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


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KEYWORDS: alcatraz; anglin; morris; sf
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To: wally_bert; Impy

“The Rock is one of my favorite movies. Great soundtrack too.”

100% agree! It was the best thing Nic Cage ever did and Connery was very Bond-esque.

The music helped make it big time!


21 posted on 06/10/2012 8:02:42 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (The Glove don't fit.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

I’m not that big of a Nic Cage fan but after The Rock learned to like some of his movies more. The CD still gets some play from time to time.

Granted there are lots of small plot problems but I ignore them and enjoy it. In the spirit of Basil Exposition of British Intelligence, just relax and enjoy yourself or word to that effect in AP II.

There is a Cracked article about movie villians who were more right than wrong. Language warning for the link below.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18417_9-famous-movie-villains-who-were-right-all-along_p2.html


22 posted on 06/10/2012 8:24:28 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: wally_bert
That was remade with Mel Gibson as Porter. And Porter the pissed off bad guy that Lee Marvin played was in a series of books.
23 posted on 06/10/2012 8:49:35 PM PDT by JimC214
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To: wally_bert

“In the spirit of Basil Exposition of British Intelligence, just relax and enjoy yourself or word to that effect in AP II.”

That’s fantastic!!! :)


24 posted on 06/10/2012 8:53:30 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (The Glove don't fit.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; wally_bert

That was one of the mid 90’s movies I watched over and over on my dad’s pirate cable box.

Favorite Live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsKVSziyKrg


25 posted on 06/10/2012 11:14:39 PM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Impy; wally_bert

Oh yes - the ole “black box”. I miss those days...

“How’s your bowling arm?”


26 posted on 06/11/2012 5:31:35 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (The Glove don't fit.)
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To: Impy

I wore out the VHS working overnights by myself in videotape department at a public TV station.


27 posted on 06/11/2012 6:29:33 AM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: MHGinTN

” Did you ever see ‘Point Blank’ with Lee Marvin?”

One of my favorite films.


28 posted on 06/11/2012 8:52:57 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; DFG; Impy; Perdogg; fieldmarshaldj; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; unkus

“Escape from Alcatraz” was a good movie (ditto for “The Rock”) as far as movies go...but Hollywood made the prisoners into sympathetic characters.

Alcatraz was NOT a place that you went to for petty crimes. It was an End of The Line prison for hardened, hardcase criminals.

Those guys were in there for a reason; they were bad-asses that were booted from other facilities.

So, if they survived, and were out there amongst the public under aliases, they were a potential threat to folks. Who knows if they perped any other crimes during the time they were out?

As for a US Marshall still looking for them...I don’t know, it seems like a waste of taxpayer funds after 50 years; but you can’t let guys like this escape and think they’ll stop looking for you after a few years.

Wasn’t Al Capone in that facility for a while too? I know he was Eastern State in Pennsylvania for tax fraud for a while...

Here’s a brief write-up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1962_Alcatraz_escape
(yeah, I know its wikpedia, but it’s still a decent writeup).


29 posted on 06/11/2012 9:15:01 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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