ALCATRAZ THE ROCK - Point Blank Promo Short on ALCATRAZ 1967

The real intent of this video is that it is a short featurette about filming the 1967 Lee Marvin film POINT BLANK on Alcatraz. The majority of this short gives you a former inmate's impressions as he returns to Alcatraz island as a free man. The inmate is Joe Giles, and he has an attempted escape attempt that rivals all others. He worked for ten years on the dock of the island keeping it clean, he put together a complete officer's uniform and then stowed away on the laundry boat thinking it was returning to San Francisco. Sadly it was headed to Angel island and he was captured as soon as it docked by the Captain of the Guard, Phil Bergen and returned to The Rock. Check it out, you can see what the island looked like before both the Indian Occupation and the National Park Service.

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In 1967, we (my family) had been in Tacoma, WA for nearly 3 years. Alcatraz not a distant memory yet. My dad worked at McNeil Island then and the second prison he would see close in his career. What I like about this short intro to the film, is that in 1967, the apartments, I slept in while my dad was one of the last care takers of the Island, are still standing. In 1970, the Navy sent me to Treasure Island for training, I could see the east side of the Rock and remembered how forbidding the Island always felt when I spent the weekends with my dad. I am amazed that Alcatraz was a small part of my history.

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This is great

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John Giles (AZ-250) lived from 1895 to 1979. He arrived on Alcatraz in 1935 and attempted in a now-famous escape in 1945. Technically, Giles did escape Alcatraz and made it to Angel Island where he was immediately captured and returned to Alcatraz.