Jimmy Moody await trial for armed robbery His cellmate was Provisional IRA member Gerard Tuite. The two men and fellow-robber Stan Thompson escaped Brixton Prison on 16 December 1980, which put them to the top of Scotland Yard's Most Wanted list. It was alleged that Moody had been paid £10,000 by the IRA to help get Tuite out of prison. Fleeing to Northern Ireland, Moody worked with the Provisional IRA. It was there that Moody coined the expression of awarding someone an OBE (One Behind The Ear) as in to shoot them in the head, a play on an OBE Award. The
A Man Escaped to the courtyard via a rope, killing the German guard there, and climbing over two walls. They drop down into the street undetected and walk away. The film is based on the memoirs of André Devigny, who escaped from the Montluc prison in Lyon in 1943, during World War II. Bresson said in an interview that with "A Man Escaped" he "wanted to achieve a great purity, a greater asceticism than in "Diary of a Country Priest"", noting his use of nonprofessional actors. New Yorker Video released the film on Region 1 DVD in 2004; it is currently out of