It's difficult to think of Alcatraz and not hear Sean Connery's accented voice proclaiming, "Welcome to the Rock!," but there ...

I guess I was supposed to be a moviemaker,” said Donald Trump today when asked why he decided to reopen the infamous prison ...

President Trump’s local PBS affiliate aired the 1979 thriller ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ before he took to social media to insist ...

The president is apparently making decisions about America's penitentiary system based on a 46-year-old Clint Eastwood movie.

A rerun of the classic movie Escape from Alcatraz coincidentally aired in southern Florida just before Trump revealed his ...

Can it be a coincidence that South Florida’s most powerful social media provocateur called for the resurrection of a decrepit ...

Trump says Alcatraz, now part of the National Park Service, suddenly is needed to house America’s “most ruthless and violent” ...

Yet the fact that the service is currently streaming the three best-known movies about the old San Franscisco island prison ...

Turns out there might be a more prosaic answer: Clint Eastwood’s 1979 classic Escape From Alcatraz was shown on a South Florida PBS station the night before. (Trump was at Mar-a-Lago for most of ...