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Alex Cox introduces a film double-bill in the season of cult movies. Subtitled
10.40pm
Escape from Alcatraz
Prison drama starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan
Alcatraz - "the Rock", America's highest security prison where only the toughest convicts are sent, and from which no one can escape. But Frank Morris a habitual escapee, is determined that Alcatraz's bars and walls will never hold him.
Director Don Siegel (1979)
SEE FILMS pages 43-50

12.35-2.15am
A Man Escaped
A Suspense drama.
Condemned to death by the Nazis, Fontaine, a young Resistance fighter, begins to engineer an escape from the notorious Fort de Montluc. A French film with English subtitles.
Written and directed by Robert Bresson
SEE FILMS pages 43-50
Moviedrome producer Nick Freand Jones
MOVIEDROME GUIDE: send cheque/PO for £3.00, payable to BSS, to [address removed].

Contributors

Introduces:
Alex Cox
Unknown:
Clint Eastwood
Unknown:
Patrick McGoohan
Unknown:
Frank Morris
Director:
Don Siegel
Directed By:
Robert Bresson
Producer:
Nick Freand Jones
Frank Morris:
Clint Eastwood
Warden:
Patrick McGoohan
Doc:
Roberts Blossom
Clarence Anglin:
Jack Thibeau
John Anglin:
Fred Ward
English:
Paul Benjamin
Fontaine:
François Leterrier
Jost:
Charles Leclainche
Priest:
Roland Monod
Orsini:
Jacques Ertaud
Blanchet:
Maurice Beerblock
Hebrard:
Jean-Paul Delamare

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