Murder in the First
- R
- Year:
- 1995
- 122 min
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They're coming. Run!
- No. Come on, this way.
I think I see them, Mr. Glenn.
To the water.
They're heading for the beach.
Down by the beach.
Look out. Run.
No. Doc, no!
Don't stop moving.
They're down there, Mr. Glenn.
- There they go.
Okay.
Lay down.
Hurry up.
Lay down or I'll shoot you, goddamn it.
Hurry up.
Lay down!
That's right, shoot them!
I give up, Mr. Glenn. Please.
- Shut up, Henri.
- Please, don't hit me. Please.
Clean him up. Take him to the hole.
And call the press.
Dateline, San Francisco.
Alcatraz was the scene last night
Four desperate prisoners
were apprehended...
...on the rocky beach below the prison.
The recently completed
Golden Gate Bridge serves as a backdrop.
So near, yet so far from freedom,
the surviving escapees...
...Henri Young and Rufus McCain,
are escorted back to lockup...
...while their less-fortunate cohorts
are destined for the morgue.
The body of Doc Barker,
son of the infamous Ma Barker...
...lies bullet-riddled,
cooling on a steel gurney...
...attended by a triumphant guard.
The squad of jubilant correctional officers
who foiled the escape...
...congratulate each other
and reluctantly show their battle scars.
supervisor of three penitentiaries...
...Folsom, San Quentin and Alcatraz,
and confidant of J. Edgar Hoover...
...congratulates his troops.
Uphold the honor of Alcatraz.
Humson returns to his duties...
...as the inmates are sent
through metal detectors...
...cells are searched,
...and Alcatraz goes on full alert
to forestall any additional trouble.
As public interest reached a frenzy...
...Warden Humson
...left the island in the bay
for a press conference...
...headed for the San Francisco City Hall...
...which was inundated
with a veritable plethora of reporters...
...from around the globe,
all gathered to hear the official reaction.
introduces Warden John Humson.
Uh, Warden Humson will now make
a brief statement...
...and if you please,
no questions at the end.
Thank you.
I just want to reassure...
...the American people that...
...Alcatraz is an escape-proof prison.
They have nothing to fear.
The inmates, McCain and Young...
...will be brought up on escape charges.
There will be time in solitary confinement.
Uh, privileges will be taken away from them.
And the whole rehabilitation process
will begin.
Definition of rehabilitate:
"To restore to a state of physical,
mental and moral health...
...through treatment and training."
Hello.
Hello, hello, hello.
Eleven times eleven...
...121.
Twelve times twelve...
...144.
Thirteen times thirteen...
...169.
Fourteen...
When Henri Young
began his rehabilitation...
...I was in my first year of law school
at Harvard.
How long?
Alcatraz was opened...
...as a federal penitentiary
in the spring of 1934.
In the era of the gangster,
it was opened more for the publicity value...
...than the incarceration level.
Alcatraz was the most feared prison
in the world...
...and the most expensive.
There were only so many Al Capones
and Machine Gun Kellys...
...so the prison had empty cells.
In order to justify the costs...
...the government took incorrigibles
from other prisons...
...men that had committed smaller,
more petty crimes...
...men like Henri Young.
Hallowing be thy name.
Our Father who art in heaven...
...hallowing be thy name.
Our Father...
Prior to 1938...
...there had been five escape attempts.
No one had made it.
The reputation ofAlcatraz as being
unescapable was secure.
Six inmates had died.
The ones who didn't die
sometimes wished they had.
The federal guideline
regarding solitary confinement states...
...that the maximum stay for an inmate
shall not exceed 19 days.
Our Father who art in heaven...
...hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done...
...on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread...
...and forgive us for our trespasses...
...as we forgive those
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.
Thank you, gentlemen.
Alcatraz is a half-mile
off the coast of San Francisco.
There were 276 inmates...
...110 guards, with their wives
and children stationed on the island.
And the associate warden, Mr. Glenn.
This is the story of Henri Young
as I know it.
October 2nd, Game 2, 1936 World Series.
American League Yankees versus
the National League New York Giants.
The Yankees...
The Yankees score 18 runs, a series record.
Every single man in that lineup hits
at least once.
Every single man in that lineup scores
at least one run.
Daddy.
- Hello. Hello.
Have you been a good boy?
Here, take Daddy's lunchbox.
We'll go see Mommy.
Good news, Henri.
It's over. You're out of the hole.
You stink, boy.
I did it. I made it.
Oh, unh, come on.
- Did good.
- made it.
I did it. I did it. I did it.
Unh, come on now. Unh.
You did good.
The only other survivor
of the escape attempt was Rufus McCain.
He had betrayed his fellow inmates
by tipping off the associate warden.
McCain was rewarded
and left in the general population.
Henri Young was sent to solitary.
- Come on.
- Hey, hey, hey.
Okay, okay, okay.
Henri.
Some men are broken
by the laws that they break.
Unable to resist the forces
that are pulling them down.
Other men live by the rules...
...that society has set down.
You're not one of them.
Henri, I have a job to do here at Alcatraz.
Do you know what that is?
To protect you from yourself.
You were among the selected sinners
the state set apart...
...so that you could simmer in scum.
The good people of the United States
have decided...
...that you are better off here.
I had nothing to do with that decision.
But where I play a part in your life is
to make sure that you stay here.
That you rehabilitate yourself...
...become a model prisoner...
That's my job, Henri.
You, too, have a job.
And trying to escape...
...is not one of the duties
of your job description, if you follow me.
In life, Henri...
...for every action...
...there is a definite and distinct reaction.
Action...
...reaction.
- Yes, Mr. Glenn.
Now, if you escape, action:
I lose my job.
Reaction:
I have a family......that I will not be able to provide for!
I'm not done yet, Henri.
Now, knowing this information, Henri...
...can you tell me...
...why you would possibly
want to escape...
...and jeopardize my family?
I've done nothing to you but my job.
And instead of letting you learn
by breaking the rules...
...I feel I need to show you
how to obey them.
Tolerance.
Tolerance for pain.
My tolerance of you.
But tolerance can be mistaken
for kindness...
...and kindness can be mistaken
for weakness.
And we can't have weakness,
can we, Henri?
I understand. I'Il... I'll... I'll be good.
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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