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Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

Fred Ward: John Anglin

Escape from Alcatraz

Fred Ward credited as playing...

John Anglin

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  • John Anglin: Hey, how's it going, Frank?
  • Frank Morris: Well, the Anglins. What are you guys doing, just dropping by?
  • Clarence Anglin: Yeah, thought we'd pay you a visit.
  • Frank Morris: Gonna stay long?
  • John Anglin: Nah, not long. Only about fifteen or twenty years.
  • Frank Morris: Why the Rock?
  • Clarence Anglin: We were going over the wall in Atlanta when we encountered a minor problem.
  • Frank Morris: Such as?
  • Clarence Anglin: They saw us.
  • Frank Morris: Yeah, that do present problems.
  • Clarence Anglin: So they shipped us to Leavenworth.
  • John Anglin: Yeah, but we didn't like the accommodations there, either. Warden said he knew just the place for us. Alcatraz.
  • Clarence Anglin: Is it true no one's ever busted out of here?
  • Frank Morris: So they tell me.
  • John Anglin: Jesus. I wonder what I'd be like after fifteen years here.
  • Clarence Anglin: What movie is playing this week?
  • John Anglin: Some cowboy piece of shit.
  • [goes into Italian-American voice]
  • John Anglin: 'ey, least dey could show was a gangsta movie!
  • [laughs]
  • Frank Morris: I may have found a way out of here.
  • [the group stops and stares at him]
  • Frank Morris: You looking at something?
  • [Frank, Charley and the Anglin Brothers are having dinner in the dinning hall]
  • John Anglin: Must be Wednesday.
  • Clarence Anglin: Why?
  • John Anglin: Mystery mounds. We always have mystery mounds on Wednesday.
  • Charley Butts: I can't taste it. I just eat out of habit.
  • Clarence Anglin: What's the movie this weekend?
  • John Anglin: Oh, some cowboy piece of shit.
  • [imitating as a gangster]
  • John Anglin: Hey, at least they could show a gangster movie. Heh-heh-heh.

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