Q 01/05

In Escape from Alcatraz, which real gangster does Litmus claim to be when he meets a new inmate?

A) John Dillinger

B) Pretty Boy Floyd

C) Al Capone

D) Baby Face Nelson

Answer · why

C) Al Capone

Al Capone is the name Litmus gives the newcomer Charley Butts, who is not sharp enough to doubt it. The real mob boss spent years as a prisoner on the...

Q 02/05

In Escape from Alcatraz, which mess-hall utensils do the inmates use to dig through cell walls?

A) Spoons

B) Forks

C) Ladles

D) Spatulas

Answer · why

A) Spoons

Spoons from the dining hall did the digging in the real 1962 breakout too, helped by discarded saw blades found on the prison grounds.

Q 03/05

What do the escapees in Escape from Alcatraz glue together to build their raft and life preservers?

A) Bedsheets

B) Mattress covers

C) Laundry bags

D) Raincoats

Answer · why

D) Raincoats

Raincoats were the real material too: the 1962 escapees gathered more than fifty of them and stitched the seams of their six-by-fourteen-foot raft by ...

Q 04/05

Escape from Alcatraz reunited Clint Eastwood with the director of which 1971 police thriller?

A) Magnum Force

B) Dirty Harry

C) The Gauntlet

D) The Enforcer

Answer · why

B) Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry was the fourth film the pair made together. The prison thriller eight years later was their fifth and last.

Q 05/05

Which future Lethal Weapon star made his film debut as an inmate in Escape from Alcatraz?

A) Danny Glover

B) Mel Gibson

C) Gary Busey

D) Mitchell Ryan

Answer · why

A) Danny Glover

Danny Glover is credited simply as an inmate. Eight years later he became Sergeant Murtaugh opposite Mel Gibson.