Welcome back to movie recaps today i will show you a thriller film from 1979, based on a true story: titled escape from alcatraz. This goodness is kind of good spoilers ahead watch out and take care in 1960 frank morris, a very smart criminal that has already escaped from multiple facilities is taken to the maximum security prison on alcatraz island. It's quite a different prison from the average ones. There are no good conduct programs carrying news, isn't permitted knowledge of the outside world is only what guards may tell you.

Every inmate is confined alone. Visitors must be investigated by the fbi and while they do have the option to work, it's a privilege that must be earned every morning. There is also a prisoner count during his first breakfast. There frank makes friends with litmus an eccentric man that likes to ask others for extra food and keeps a mouse as a secret pet that he carries everywhere with him.

Frank also can't help noticing that a huge man known as wolf, keeps looking at him and making threatening gestures afterwards, he's taken to see the warden, who explains the rules, frank, must obey and ask for the names you may want to authorize. Visitors but frank has nobody in his life, not even family, the warden lets him go with one warning: nobody has ever escaped from alcatraz and nobody ever will. This encounter doesn't end up being completely useless, though, when the warden isn't looking frank steals one of his nail clippers, which he later hides inside the bible in a cell when the time comes for his first shower frank, is approached by wolf. There's any two or three boys come on that'd.

Be nice chat. Tell me, am i gon na, say buddy here or not, who claims frank will be his new punk, since obviously he won't take a no for an answer. Frank reacts by punching him a couple of times and stuffing his mouth with a bar of soap. Later frank is sent to help at the library and there he meets english, a black man that is serving two life sentences.

Ten years ago, he killed two men in self-defense, but since they were white, they believed their lies over a story since prisoners aren't allowed in the library. Frank's duty today is to go around the cells with a card and offer magazines and books to those who want them, while having his break in the yard. Frank meets doc, an elderly inmate that spends his time, painting he's incredibly talented and the subjects of his paintings go from himself to the warden. All his portraits include a chrysanthemum flower as well.

He also expresses worry for frank's life after he has made an enemy out of wolves. Afterward frank goes to have a chat with english, who tells him all the details. He knows about the prison's anti-escape measures: men that manage to leave their cells, which is already an incredibly difficult task, were shot by the guards in the watchtowers and even if you somehow were able to successfully leave the building. There's still the issue of alcatraz being an island there's a mile swim to land and the water is freezing some days later, while chatting with litmus in the yard.

He mentions that there are ventilation shafts on top of their block. The only trick would be finding the way to get up there, but the afternoon suddenly takes a nasty turn when wolf comes after frank with a knife which he manages to dodge just in time. Thanks to a warning from doc, the two men get into a fight that the guards hurry to break up and both wolf and frank are taken to solitary confinement, because the warden doesn't care. If frank has acted in self-defense.

A fight is a fight. Those special cells are also known as the hole because you're stuck there with no light or human contact. The only visit frank gets is from a guard that uses a hose to spray him with cold water under the excuse that he shouldn't stink up. The cell frank is released a couple of days later, while wolfe is kept in the hole longer for having started the fight and used a knife that night frank's visited by litmus mouse.

Who brings him a little note that says: welcome back a few weeks later, frank befriends, a new inmate assigned to the cell next to his charlie, butts, who he introduces to his other friends when they meet in the yard, while all the prisoners are outside the warden Wanders around the cells checking everything is in order and discovers doc's painting of him guys. This is the portrait is flat, very accurate, but just to be cruel. The warden still permanently removes doc's painting privileges when a guard comes by to take the paint and the canvases away. Doc is left in a very distressed state, because painting is all he had after gaining the privilege of a job.

Frank accepts to join the carpentry team. One afternoon, while they're working, he can't help noticing doc, doesn't look well and tries to warn the guard who just ignores him as depression. Kicks in doc asks for a hatchet and uses it to cut his fingers off, which will get him transferred out after finding a chrysanthemum that doc left in his pocket. Frank gathers the fingers and puts them in a box to give to the guard sarcastically telling him to include that in his report.

The warden approaches frank later during dinner, to ask him about the incident and frank takes the chance to indirectly insult him by commenting on how someone could get offended by a flattering portrait. It's during that same meal. That frank gets a pleasant surprise. The anglin brothers, john and clarence, have also been transferred to alcatraz, frank knows them from one of his other prison sentences and just like him, they're, very good at escaping, which is the reason why they are here now.

One boring afternoon frank notices a roach in his cell, escaping through the grill on the wall, which is surrounded by very weak concrete. This gives him an idea using the nail clipper he had stolen. He tries chipping away the concrete around the grill and successfully gets to remove some with enough patience. There's a chance.

He could make a hole big enough for his whole body to get through when visitors day comes two of frank's friends get news from the outside world. English is visited by his daughter, who tells him she's getting married and charlie is visited by his wife, who tells him his mother only has a few months left to live desperate to see his mom before she dies. Charlie later tells frank that if he manages to find a way to escape, he wants, in this inspires frank to finally tell charlie in the anglins of his discovery. Over dinner, the concrete and the grill metal have been weakened by the moist sea air, so digging a hole.

There is just a matter of time. This could get them into the utility quarter, which may lead to the roof to hide the hole. While they are working on it, they will tear the ads out of magazines and make cardboard out of them to create a fake wall. They can also obscure the hole with some objects like towels.

In his case, frank, has ordered an accordion under the excuse, he's joining the prison band just to use the instrument case to cover his hole. They can also use this cardboard to make dummy heads to leave on their beds that way they can escape at night and they won't be able to tell they're gone until the morning count. The anglin brothers work in the barbershop and the clothing shop, so one of them can get hair for the dummy and the other can steal some raincoats and contact cement to make life wraps that they can use to cross the bay. The chances are slim, but everyone accepts to help.

Frank begins working more often on his hole, while charlie keeps an eye out for guards, but using the clipper makes it extremely difficult, since it lacks a proper grip. So next day, during meal time, he uses his shoe to get his spoon dirty on purpose and ask for another one. While one of the anglin brothers chats with the guard to keep him distracted. Frank takes two spoons instead of one and brings one back to the cell with him later when english comes by to leave some magazines, frank asks him if there's a way to weld metal together right there in the cell and english promises, he'll teach him.

Many days later, with flies gets frank. A dime in exchange for 15 desserts, frank uses this dime to do some wielding in a cell. He breaks the spoon to get the grip and the clipper to get the file. Then lights up a bunch of matches together to melt the dime and connect the spoon grip with the nail file.

Now he has a proper tool. He can dig faster and thanks to charlie's warnings, he always runs back to his bed when a guard comes by. So he doesn't get caught after many days of digging. He manages to remove all the concrete around the grill, but it's attached to the wall and impossible to get off by hand next time.

He goes to work at the carpentry shop. He makes a wedge that could help. The only problem would be getting it through. The metal, detector but frank has a plan when they leave the shop.

Frank makes the detector go off in purpose by having the wedge visibly in his hand and telling the guard he made it to hang his clothes. The guard doesn't believe him and takes the wedge before checking frank's pockets, since he has nothing there. He's allowed to leave and frank returns to his cell with success on his shoulders. He has a second wedge hidden in his shoe.

He finally manages to get the grill off the wall, and this is the sign he needs to get the plan rolling properly over the next few months. Charlie and the anglin brothers begin digging as well. They also start working on the cardboard dummies using magazine pages water and the concrete dust they get from the digging charlie orders. A painting set pretending to have picked up a new hobby but they'll be using this paint to color the dummies and make cardboard covers for the holes that look like the grill.

Once frank's dummy is ready with the hair the anglin's got from the barbershop. He puts it in the bed and finally enters the hole to see. What's on the other side, he finds some stairs that take him to the utility corridor and allow him to find the ventilation shafts, but these are on the ceiling and out of his reach. Meanwhile, there's a guard making his rounds in the cell area, he is tricked by the dummy the first time he walks by, but the second time he finds it.

Weird that frank hasn't moved his suspicions get worse when he drops his baton and the noise doesn't make frank even stir, but by the time he comes closer to the cell to check the head out. Frank has made it back to bed. Oh okay, dude the next day he tells his friends what he's found and checks on their last segment. But charlie has fallen behind later that night, frank and john get into the utility corridor so that they hide the raincoats they've stolen from the clothing store and check out the ventilation guys it's it's just a trick that movies.

Do you get what it is? It's just that make it more suspenseful or whatever right now that he is john, giving him a boost. Frank can reach it and take a closer look which makes him realize that he needs some serious tools to get it open. They also make note of the electrical outlet on the wall next time they go to band practice. Frank asks litmus to get him an extension cord and a drill out of the shop he's in charge of an action he could be sent to the hole for litmus accepts after being promised.

Every dessert of frank's from now on frank, also takes the chance to steal a small desk fan that he sneaks inside his accordion case and manages to get away with, by tricking the guard into checking charlie's case. Instead, once they have all the tools, including a pen light, they steal from doc, frank and john go back to the utility corridor to get to work, always keeping an out for any passing guard. They use a pipe john tears off the wall to break the bars that protect the shaft hole. Then frank, climbs inside and using the drill he's made with the tip litmus got him in the fan.

He takes off the screws on the metal plates that cover up the passageway. Many months have passed since frank's arrival to alcatraz and the group is finally ready to escape charlie is worried because his fake grill keeps falling apart, but jon confirms the wrath will be ready. Next tuesday, so frank decides they'll, be going through the plan on tuesday night one morning during breakfast frank takes out the chrysanthemum dock that left him to water. It litmus is pleasantly surprised to see it because it brings him memories of when he and doc planted those flowers together, but the warden has a completely different reaction.

The chrysanthemum reminds him of the paintings, so he comes by the table and crushes it claiming it's against the regulations, this enrages litmus, who tries to jump on him, but instead he passes out from a heart attack. After this encounter, the warden gets suspicious of frank. So he orders an inspection of his cell. They find nothing unusual and the fake grill manages to trick them, but the warden is still worried.

So he orders a guard to transfer frank to another cell. The paperwork required will take a couple of days, so the transfer will be done on tuesday morning. The next day the group finds out wolfe has been brought back from the hole and swears he'll kill frank as soon as he gets. The opportunity so frank decides they'll be escaping tonight.

Instead of tuesday. Wolff does try to get him during their afternoon break in the yard, but english intercepts him and drags him to meet his gang implying they'll, be beating him up for trying anything when night falls. It's finally time for the group to get going frank and the anglin successfully trick the guards with their dummies and enter the utility corridor, but charlie loses courage and stays in his cell crying carrying the raft and litmus mouse with them. The trio climbs up the ventilation shaft and makes it to the roof where they carefully sneak around.

By keeping an eye on the movement of the searchlights to dodge them. They manage to cross the roof and find a pipeline against the side wall that they use to climb down and reach the yard where they are careful to once again move around while avoiding the lights until they reach the fence. Meanwhile, charlie has changed his mind and gone through the hole too, but when he reaches the ventilation shaft, he can't reach it because he doesn't have his friends to give him a boost. So he returns to his cell to spend the rest of the night sulking over the missed opportunity back to frank in the anglins they climb over the barbed wire fence using calculated jumps to avoid getting hurt, and now they are officially out of the building.

So they easily run towards the shoreline of the island there. They inflate the raft and jump on the water while clinging to it and using their legs as their propelling force to swim away into freedom. The following morning, the guards find out they're gone as soon as they check their cells and a massive search of the prison and the entire island ensues. They find some of the inmates personal effects floating in the bay which makes the warden believe they've drowned, because they would never leave these things behind, but one of the guards points out it could all be a decoy to make them think they're dead.

The warden also finds a chrysanthemum on a rock, and since these flowers aren't native to the island, it can only mean frank left it there as a message. The fugitives bodies are never found and the prison of alcatraz is shut down a year later, make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications. So you can watch more videos thanks for watching that she escaped or not come on man. They did most likely died man.

What you talking about man they? No, they survived, no, no, no, no, no, they escaped and they lived happy forever. I i know it for a fact tonight.