Murder in the First (ISBN 0790737620)

Description:
Based on a true story that occured on the 1930s. A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend a hard-core prisoninmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.

The Story of Alcatraz:
Alcatraz was norotious in its day for being an island prison off the coast of San Francisco Bay. A man who spends a year in solitary confinment goes mad enough to kill a fellow inmate. The sad thing is that the convict was a mere petty thief whose nature only hardened when he was sentenced to imprisonment. Christian Slater plays an ambitious public defender in San Francisco who fights for his client in that Matlock kind of way. One of the best scenes in this film are all the shots of San Francisco which create the atmosphere of the times.

good movie:
once again america has shipped an ntsc dvd to europe knowingly that europe is pal. you guys are deffinatly a bunch of joys.

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Possibly Bacon's best:
In what is possibly Kevin Bacon's best performance in a long and varied career, he turns in a remarkable performance as a petty criminal now on trial for murder. Fellow actors Gary Oldman, William H. Macy, and especially Christian Slater, also turn in fine performances. As a courtroom drama, there are few movies that can compete with this one. Slater, as Bacon's defense attorney, must triumph over what seem like insurmountable odds: everything from his own boss, colleagues, the prison system, the government, and even his own older brother (played by talented actor Brad Douriff), is against him. But in the end he wins the case despite the formidable forces arrayed against him. You should be aware that the movie takes considerable license with the facts, however. In the movie, Bacon's character is said to be just a petty criminal whose punishment far exceeded his crime by having to spend 1000 days in solitary, and that it was the brutal conditions in Alcatraz that caused him to commit the subsequent murder. In fact. Henry Young (the criminal), was a career criminal and sociopath who had a long history of crime, had already murdered one person, and brutalized another hostage after a bank robbery. He later committed another murder while in prison. So he was not a sympathetic person at all in real life. Also in the movie, the warden is said to be warden over three prisons, only visiting The Rock 24 times in three years, and so couldn't know what the conditions were like. In fact, there has never been a warden who ran more than one prison. And the warden at Alcatraz lived in a small house only a few feet from the front gate of the prison. With those facts in mind, though, it's an outstanding movie and one that stands out from the rest of the crowd in the genre of courtroom dramas.

Murder in the First:
Excellent! A sleeper if I ever saw one . This movie has the best in actors, story, direction and action. Telling a story that needed to be seen as well as read. I have watched this movie several times and I still delighted to view this great movie.