DVD Review: The Real Story – Escape from Alcatraz  By    |
  Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Filed under: Film Tags: , , , , , ,  On
June 11, 1962, three prisoners escaped from the federal prison
facility on Alcatraz Island, located in the San Francisco Bay.
What became of the three men has been a mystery for 48 years,
for there was no trace of them once they left the island.  In
1979, this made a great movie, Escape from Alcatraz, starring
Clint Eastwood in the role of Frank Lee Morris, reputed
“mastermind” of the escape. But was that version of the story
what really happened? Or was it romanticized for the movies?
There is some speculation that Morris was not the true
mastermind; that it was instead another prisoner who never left
the island, Alan West. West was the fourth team member who
claimed the escape was his idea, and there is some evidence to
support his allegation (ironically West died in 1979, the year
Escape from Alcatraz was released).  On the morning of June 12,
1962, guards attempting to rouse Frank L