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unusual facts about Don Siegel


Alcatraz Dining Hall

It has appeared in films such as Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood's Escape from Alcatraz (1979), and Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994), which has a scene spoofing the dining room scenes of the 1979 film.


Alcatraz Island in popular culture

Don Siegel's 1979 thriller Escape from Alcatraz chronicles the story of Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin, who successfully escaped from Alcatraz in 1962, although it is unknown whether they survived the trip across the bay.

Finnila's Finnish Baths

Director Don Siegel filmed the final scenes of the 1971 movie Dirty Harry on the Larkspur Landing area owned by Alfred Finnila - owner of Finnila's Finnish Baths - as well as the adjacent East Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Larkspur, California.

Night Unto Night

Night Unto Night is a 1949 drama film directed by Don Siegel, based on the 1944 novel by Philip Wylie.

Rufe Persful

In the 1979, Don Siegel-Clint Eastwood film Escape from Alcatraz, Persful's hand mutilation was enacted in the movie.

The Gun Runners

The Gun Runners, a 1958 film directed by Don Siegel, is the third adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not, starring Audie Murphy and Patricia Owens.


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