Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAfter 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... Alles lesenAfter 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.
Fotos
- Prison Guard
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- Man in Plane Factory
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- Nick
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- Radio Operator
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- Second Pilot in Hangar
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- Submarine Officer
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- Second Radio Operator
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- Luther
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- Prison Warden
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Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesThe name on the crate the escapees were clinging to in San Francisco Bay is "H. Schlom". Herman Schlom is the film's producer.
- PatzerIn 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.
- Zitate
[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.
- VerbindungenReferenced in Die USA und der Holocaust: The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-) (2022)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Silly but entertaining "B" picture about a couple cons (James Craig, Frank Jenks) who break out of Alcatraz just after the Pearl Harbor bombing. They end up taking a group hostage at a lighthouse but their problems grow even bigger when it's discovered that Nazis are about to use a sub to sink San Francisco. If you're looking for logic then I'd recommend staying away from this film but if you have an hour to kill and want some cheap fun then I'm sure you'll get a kick out of this thing. This is a pretty wild little story even though the main moral is to preach that Americans, no matter what their profession, should stick up for their country and bring down the enemy. What really makes the film so funny are a few scenes where Craig gets to make fun of Hitler, which while it's not Chaplin, it was still pretty funny. Even funnier are the Nazis here who are so over the top that you can't help but laugh. The female Nazi and her crush on Hitler and her anger when people make fun of his is rather priceless. Director Dmytryk would certainly go onto do bigger and better pictures but he manages to keep the film moving at a fast pace and he even gets a few nice shots in including a very nice one when the men first get out of the water and reach land. The entire story is pretty far fetched and the way the men escape and how easy they swim to shore is even sillier. As far as the performances go, none of them are great but they're at least entertaining with Craig and Jenks both fitting their roles just fine. Former Nancy Drew's Bonita Granville isn't too bad in her role even if it is a thankless one. Again, if you want a smart WWII pic then this here isn't for you but if you want some cheap action then you'll want to check this one out.
- Michael_Elliott
- 1. Feb. 2010
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Details
- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsland
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- Auch bekannt als
- A siete millas de Alcatraz
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Box Office
- Budget
- 134.549 $ (geschätzt)
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 2 Minuten
- Farbe
- Seitenverhältnis
- 1.37 : 1