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
I Escaped from Devil's Island film following "Boxcar Bertha". "The idea was if you shoot it fast enough, you could release the film before "Papillon"," he said. "I was still very keen on genre films." However Scorsese decided to make "Mean Streets" instead. Filming started in April 1973 in Acapulco. The producers of the similar film "Papillon" (1973) sued for copyright infringement but were unsuccessful. Shout Factory is releasing "I Escaped from Devil's Island" on DVD and Blu-ray on July 15, 2014. I Escaped from Devil's Island I Escaped from Devil's Island is a 1973 exploitation film about an escape attempt from Devil's Island. Roger