Clint- a prisoner who has been sent to alcatraz because he has escaped from other prisons arrives. He meets the warden, a sadist. (This is established when the warden takes away painting privileges from an inmate who goes nuts when this is done to him.) Clint meets the other inmates- first a quirky sort who feeds food to his pet mouse. Then the local bully who wants to fuck him, but Clint beats him up in the shower. When the bully tries to stab Clint in the yard, Clint succeeds in foiling the attempt. The offender is sent to punishment, but so is Clint. (the cruelty of the place.) Clint befriends a black inmate. Clint tells his plan to three others- his neighbor and two others who have access to materials needed for the escape. Painstaking preparations including welding a spoon onto a nail clipper, including a narrow escape. Guard almost sees the welded instrument when the neighbor cannot whistle in time. Right before the escape: bully gets out of solitary and black friend stops him from attacking Clint. Threat of bully causes a moving up of the escape date, which thwarts the warden's plans to move Clint. Clint's neighbor decides not to escape and then regrets his decision, but ends up in his cell. Clint and the other two swim away on a homemade raft. The only evidence of their survival are crysanthemums left on the island adjacent to Alcatraz. (that flower was the signature of the painter who cut off his own hand in protest of the removal of his painting privileges.) we don't know whether they made it or not. Based on a true story.
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