Escape from Alcatraz (film) Alcatraz" marks the fifth and final collaboration between Siegel and Eastwood, following "Coogan's Bluff" (1968), "Two Mules for Sister Sara" (1970), "The Beguiled" (1971) and "Dirty Harry" (1971). On January 18, 1960, Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood) arrives at the maximum security prison Alcatraz. Soon after arriving, he is sent in to meet the warden (Patrick McGoohan), who curtly informs him that no inmate has ever successfully escaped from Alcatraz. Among the inmates, Morris makes acquaintances with the eccentric Litmus, (Frank Ronzio) who is fond of desserts, English (Paul Benjamin), a black inmate serving two life sentences for killing two white
Escape from Furnace Escape from Furnace Escape from Furnace is a series of novels by Alexander Gordon Smith. Escape from Furnace is the United States title of the series. In the United Kingdom the series is known as "Furnace". The books are written from the point of view of the teenage protagonist Alex Sawyer, and are about his incarceration in the fictional London prison Furnace Penitentiary. "Escape from Furnace: Lockdown" is followed by "Solitary", "Death Sentence", "Fugitives" and "Execution". Smith followed up the series with a novella, "The Night Children", which tells the story of the 17-year-old commissioned officer Kreuz (known as Warden