Seven Miles from Alcatraz

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After Pearl Harbor, Alcatraz convicts Champ Larkin and Jimbo escape to a lighthouse island, taking hostages. A Nazi spy ring also targets the island, leading to a conflict between the convic... Read allAfter Pearl Harbor, Alcatraz convicts Champ Larkin and Jimbo escape to a lighthouse island, taking hostages. A Nazi spy ring also targets the island, leading to a conflict between the convicts' greed and patriotism.After Pearl Harbor, Alcatraz convicts Champ Larkin and Jimbo escape to a lighthouse island, taking hostages. A Nazi spy ring also targets the island, leading to a conflict between the convicts' greed and patriotism.

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- Edward Dmytryk
Writers
- Joseph Krumgold
- John D. Klorer
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5.7/10

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Director
- Edward Dmytryk
Writers
- Joseph Krumgold
- John D. Klorer
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James Craig

Champ Larkin

Bonita Granville

Anne Porter

Frank Jenks

Jimbo

Cliff Edwards

Stormy

George Cleveland

Captain Porter

Erford Gage

Paul Brenner

Tala Birell

Baroness

John Banner

Fritz Weinermann

Otto Reichow

Kernan Cripps

Prison Guard
(uncredited)

Albert D'Arno

Man in Plane Factory
(uncredited)

Bruce Edwards

Nick
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Charles Flynn

Radio Operator
(uncredited)

Russell Hoyt

Second Pilot in Hangar
(uncredited)

Jack Martin

Submarine Officer
(uncredited)

Richard Martin

Second Radio Operator
(uncredited)

Lee Phelps

Luther
(uncredited)

Edwin Stanley

Prison Warden
(uncredited)

Director
- Edward Dmytryk
Writers
- Joseph Krumgold
- John D. Klorer
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Trivia
The name on the crate the escapees were clinging to in San Francisco Bay is "H. Schlom". Herman Schlom is the film's producer.

Goofs
In the film, Champ and Jimbo are depicted as being cellmates. At Alcatraz, the policy throughout the prison's entire twenty-nine year history was that each cell housed only one man. Nobody ever had a cellmate. After the 1946 Battle of Alcatraz rendered large portions of "C" Block uninhabitable, the affected convicts were either temporarily transferred to the unused and antiquated "A" Block or transferred to another prison entirely. This was solely due to maintain the one cell/one man rule.

Quotes
[first lines]
Champ Larkin: [voice over over shots of Alcatraz] You gotta admit, it's a pretty piece of masonry, that Alcatraz, but it never was a choice spot for a vacation, and this war soured the place but good. There it is, sticking up like a nose on your face right in the middle of San Francisco Harbor.
Champ Larkin: [voice over as the shot now switches to inmates inside] And there's us, sitting on top of the sweetest target on the west coast with no place to go if somebody decided to start dropping scrap iron. Eight hundred big time hoodlums waiting for it: pennies from heaven.

Connections
Referenced in The U.S. and the Holocaust: The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-) (2022)

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7/10

Interesting Film

Liked the title to this film because of the fact I like stories that have something to do with Alcatraz the "Rock" and this was a great film from 1942 concerning some convicts who manage to escape from the prison. These convicts escape to a light house island with several civilians, a few men and one woman named Ann Porter, (Bonita Granville) and Champ Larkin, (James Craig). These convicts do not realize that they have found themselves in a very difficult situation at this lighthouse and are not fully aware that World War II is going on and that Nazi forces are trying to invade San Francisco by submarine. There is secret messages being transmitted by Morse Code back and forth to the enemy sub and these convicts begin to find out just what is happening to them and the other civilians. This is a good Classic 1942 film with great direction and a very excellent story. Enjoy.