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...Moment. The battle had begun on Thursday afternoon. Bernard Paul Coy, 46, bank robber, buried with some 280 other incorrigibles in the tomb of steel and concrete, had had plenty of time to brood in nine years of imprisonment. Alcatraz, with its electric eyes which searched men, its hand-picked guards, its isolation in the middle of the Bay, was supposed to be escape-proof...
...Coy wanted to challenge the supposition. Sweeping the floors in A, B and C cell blocks, he watched Guard Bert Burch walk the gun gallery behind steel bars. The unarmed floor guards were out of sight. Guard Burch, on routine patrol, passed on along the gallery into D block...
...Coy swarmed up to the gallery. With an instrument made from stolen brass toilet parts, he spread the bars, squirmed inside and stood against the wall, waiting. Burch came back. Coy slugged him, took his rifle, .45 pistol, keys and let himself into D block...
...Killers. D block is Alcatraz' "solitary." There Coy freed Joseph Cretzer; bank robber and murderer; Marvin Hubbard, kidnaper; Sam Shockley, Oklahoma badman; Miran Thompson, murderer; 18-year-old "baby" Clarence Carnes. They pounced on Guard William Miller, beat him, took his keys. They threw other guards in a cell. Cretzer, armed with Burch's .45, stood outside yelling and firing at the guards through the bars. He wounded several, killed Miller...
James Lamantia, as fired, and Evelyn Merson, as "amante" of Alceste, both give capable, if not outstanding, performances; perhaps the latter's chief flaw is a tendency to overdo her coy coquetry. Mollere's foppish aristocracy, as inevitable as Shakespeare's colwns, is capably portrayed by Hibbard James. Harold Fondren and Robert Miller...