This movie is beyond bad. Other reviewers have the atrocious lack of quality very well covered.
As an Alcatraz history buff I knew this movie was going to be laughably wrong when I saw the first outside view of the prison and they showed the burned out ruins of the Warden's House, which was destroyed during the Indian Occupation of 1969. (The Transamerica Pyramid and Sutro Tower in the San Francisco skyline were not there in 1946 either.) No convicts would have had facial hair. The six rioters only had 2 guns, a 30.06 Springfield rifle and a .45 caliber Colt Pistol. Not several pistols, nor am AK-47. Bernard Coy did not hide the key that led to the prison yard. It was hidden in the toilet of cell 402. A Block was not used by and large for housing inmates. The actor playing Warden Johnston should have been 40 years older, for Johnston was 72 in 1946. Coy, Kretzer and Hubbard did not kill one another and Carnes didn't shoot anyone. I watched this whole inaccurate from beginning to end, thinking there may be some interesting drama in this inaccurate waste of time. But it wasn't even good for that. (One more thing, Alcatraz NEVER had tile walls or floors in the cell house)
As an Alcatraz history buff I knew this movie was going to be laughably wrong when I saw the first outside view of the prison and they showed the burned out ruins of the Warden's House, which was destroyed during the Indian Occupation of 1969. (The Transamerica Pyramid and Sutro Tower in the San Francisco skyline were not there in 1946 either.) No convicts would have had facial hair. The six rioters only had 2 guns, a 30.06 Springfield rifle and a .45 caliber Colt Pistol. Not several pistols, nor am AK-47. Bernard Coy did not hide the key that led to the prison yard. It was hidden in the toilet of cell 402. A Block was not used by and large for housing inmates. The actor playing Warden Johnston should have been 40 years older, for Johnston was 72 in 1946. Coy, Kretzer and Hubbard did not kill one another and Carnes didn't shoot anyone. I watched this whole inaccurate from beginning to end, thinking there may be some interesting drama in this inaccurate waste of time. But it wasn't even good for that. (One more thing, Alcatraz NEVER had tile walls or floors in the cell house)