Spandau Prison journalist and DJ Robert Elms, saw the name 'Spandau Ballet' scrawled on the wall of a nightclub lavatory during a visit to Berlin. This gallows humour graffiti refers to standard drop method hangings at Spandau Prison when the condemned would twitch and jump at the end of a rope. The prison featured in the 1985 film "Wild Geese II", about a fictional group of mercenaries who are assigned to kidnap Rudolf Hess (played by Laurence Olivier), and in the book "Spandau Phoenix" by Greg Iles, which is a fictional account of Hess and Spandau Prison. Notes Bibliography Spandau Prison Spandau
Four Men in Prison Four Men in Prison Four Men In Prison is a 1950 documentary film about English prison conditions directed by Max Anderson. Filmed at Wakefield Prison, it was commissioned for the purpose of educating people involved in criminal justice. The film was criticised for being inaccurate and sensational, and was quickly withdrawn. The film was made for educational purposes by the Central Office of Information to be shown privately to magistrates and others who were involved in administering criminal justice. The Home Office initiated production of the film, which cost £16,000. It was one of three produced under Donald Taylor at