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Prison | Alcatraz Prison
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Michael Beck spent one night confined by himself in a prison cell to research his role as Clarence Carnes.
The film does not show that Carnes, after escaping from the Granite Reformatory in Oklahoma, carjacked a passing driver and forced the driver to take him across the state line. That resulted in federal charges of kidnapping and crossing state lines to flee prosecution. That was the reason he was sent into the federal prison system; which resulted in him being sent first to United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, and then to Alcatraz.
The real Clarence Carnes worked as a consultant on this movie.
Telly Savalas (Joe Cretzer) appeared in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), starring Burt Lancaster as Robert Stroud. In the previous film, Savalas played a convict, Feto Gomez, at Leavenworth prison, and, like Stroud, was later sent to Alcatraz.
"Clarence Carnes: [Runs past Stroud's cell and sees him standing passively, when the doors to D-Block's cells are opened during the 1946 escape attempt. He runs back] Come on! You're free! Robert Stroud: [calmly] I'm not going anywhere. Clarence Carnes: Come on man, let's go! Robert Stroud: Guys like them boys do things the hard way, don't they? [sits down on his bunk and picks up the book he'd been reading before the commotion began] Robert Stroud: They'll be dead before sundown; and a lot of other poor, ignorant fools with them. Maybe you too, son. Clarence Carnes: But... You're in this cell for life. Robert Stroud: You're an Indian, aren't you? I know how you feel about being free. But let me tell you something: there's one worse than doing life, and that's no life at all. Think about that. Clarence Carnes: [Looks at Stroud who's resumed reading and then runs back along the D-Block walkway] Come on! Everybody out!"
