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Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story is a 1980 American television film about Clarence Carnes, the youngest ever inmate of Alcatraz Prison. It screened over two nights, from Monday, July 10 to Tuesday, July 11 on NBC.
Apr 25, 2017 · 1.6K. 342K views 7 years ago. Made for television movie about Alcatraz inmate Clarence Carnes (AZ-714). Carnes was transferred to Alcatraz in 1945 at the age of 18. He was serving life plus 99...
Nov 5, 1980 · Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story: Directed by Paul Krasny. With Michael Beck, Art Carney, Alex Karras, Telly Savalas. Fact based story of the lives and attempted 1946 escape of several inmates in the famous correctional facility.
Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "The Rock". Michael Beck plays the real-life Clarence Carnes, an Oklahoma Choctaw Indian said to be the youngest man ever incarcerated in the notorious maximum security prison.
A fictionalized TV 2-nighter about Clarence Carnes, the youngest man ever sent to Alcatraz, and two attempted breakouts. The first night was focused on an unsuccessful attempt in 1948 that ended with two guards and three prisoners dead, and which earned Carnes another life sentence.
Clarence Carnes, an Indian from Oklahoma who as a teenager was the youngest convict ever incarcerated at Alcatraz following a gas station holdup/murder, is the central figure in this fictionalized, glorified B-movie account by screenwriter Ernest Tidyman of how Carnes spent decades hatching...
User Reviews. While this is based on some facts within Clarence Carnes life, as a TV movie, you have to remember it is a movie. I didn't think they were making heroes of anyone, as much as just telling a story, and it's a pretty good story too. Telly Savalas is menacing enough as the escaping leader of the cons.
