In many ways, the original Shawshank Redemption (King's novella was published three years later). Siegel and writer Richard Tuggle ramp up the tension as a quartet of lifers decide The Rock is not for them. J Campbell Bruce had related the story in his study of the prison, released in 1963. As repeated in the film, the trio were never found.
Exciting film, with good flashes of humour. Clint Eastwood, Roberts Blossom ('Doc', Home Alone), Jack Thibeau and Fred Ward (Big Business, Short Cuts) (brothers), Paul Benjamin, Patrick McGoohan, Frank Ronzio, Bruce Fischer.
Photographed by Bruce Surtees on Alcatraz; good twangly score from Jerry Fielding; edited by Ferris Webster (Joel Cox assisting).
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