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Escape from Alcatraz

November 16-30, 2011

If there was ever an inmate who was destined to escape from Alcatraz, it was Frank Lee Morris. In the movie entitled Escape from Alcatraz starring actor Clint Eastwood, Morris was accurately portrayed as the keen and brilliant mastermind of one of the most famous prison escapes in history.

Morris was sent to Alcatraz prison where he meets his old friends, brothers John and Clarence Anglin, and makes acquaintance of the prisoner in the cell next to his, Charlie Butts. After a series of negative experiences involving the warden of Alcatraz, Morris decides to escape and persuades the other three men to join him. The inmates dig through the walls of their cells with spoons, making papier-màché dummies to act as decoys, and construct a raft out of raincoats. On the night of their escape, Butts gets frightened and does not go with the others. Morris and the Anglin brothers make it out of the prison and paddle their raft towards Angel Island, never to be seen again.