Morris, the Anglins and Butts plan to meet in the passageway and escape. That night, the inmates decide they are now ready to leave. Wolf has been released from solitary confinement and prepares to attack Morris again, but English is able to intercept him, with English implying that his gang will beat up Wolf. Nonetheless, he issues orders for Morris to be relocated to a different cell as soon as possible. The Warden orders an inspection of Morris' cell but finds nothing unusual. Over the next few months Morris, the Anglins, and Butts dig through the walls of their cells with spoons (which have been soldered into makeshift shovels), make papier-mâché dummies to act as decoys, and construct a raft out of raincoats.ĭuring mealtime Morris places a chrysanthemum at the table in honour of Doc, but the Warden stops by and crushes it, causing a provoked and angry Litmus to suffer a heart attack. Morris notices that the concrete around the grille in his cell is weak and can be chipped away, which evolves into an escape plan. Later, Morris encounters two bank robbers and brothers John and Clarence Anglin ( Fred Ward and Jack Thibeau), who are his old friends from another prison sentence, and he links up with prisoner Charley Butts ( Larry Hankin). Doc is depressed and hacks off several fingers of his left hand with a hatchet from the prison workshop before being led away.
Despite the paintings being respectful and flattering likenesses, he permanently removes Doc's painting privileges just to be cruel. The Warden discovers that Doc has painted a portrait of him, as well as other guards on the island itself. Both men are imprisoned in isolation in the hole. Fischer), who tries to harass him in the showers and later attacks him in the prison yard with a knife. Morris also makes an enemy of a rapist nicknamed Wolf ( Bruce M. Over the next several days Morris makes acquaintances with a few inmates: the eccentric Litmus (Frank Ronzio), who is fond of desserts English ( Paul Benjamin), a black inmate serving two life sentences for killing two white men in self-defence and the elderly Doc ( Roberts Blossom), who paints portraits and once grew chrysanthemums at Alcatraz. During the conversation Morris steals one of the nail clippers on the desk. The Warden ( Patrick McGoohan) curtly informs him that Alcatraz is unique within the US prison system for its exceedingly high level of security and that no inmate has ever successfully escaped. In early 1960 Frank Morris ( Clint Eastwood), an exceptionally intelligent criminal who has absconded from other facilities, arrives at the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island.
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