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73-560: Kramer wrote in his memoirs that he "wouldn't be surprised" if Hackman, Bergen and Widmark "would prefer to remain as anonymous as the conspirators" in the film, adding "if I'm right, it's a feeling I share." Roy Tucker (Gene Hackman), serving time in San Quentin for the murder of his wife's first husband, is introduced to a man named Marvin Tagge by Warden Ditcher. Over a series of interviews with Tagge and an associate named Ross Pine, Tucker learns

146-556: A 2001 study at between $ 129 million and $ 664 million. As of July 31, 2022, San Quentin was incarcerating people at 105% of its design capacity, with 3,239 occupants. Men condemned to death in California were, in general, formerly held at San Quentin. Most of the former death row population, with some exceptions, have been moved to general population in other California institutions as of May 28, 2024. These transfers have been arranged to comply with Proposition 66 and are being managed by

219-614: A Home (1964). She appeared in Wives and Lovers (1963) and episodes of shows such as Alcoa Theatre , Ben Casey , and Thirty-Minute Theatre . Winters was featured in the Italian film Time of Indifference (1964) with Rod Steiger and Claudia Cardinale , and had one of the many cameos in the religious epic The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), again for George Stevens. Winters won her second Best Supporting Actress Oscar in A Patch of Blue (1965) for her performance as Rose-Ann D'Arcey,

292-774: A Woman! (1943) but a bigger part in a B movie , Sailor's Holiday (1944). Winters was borrowed by the Producers Releasing Corporation for Knickerbocker Holiday (1944). Columbia put her in small bits in She's a Soldier Too (1944), Dancing in Manhattan (1944), Together Again (1944), Tonight and Every Night (1945), Escape in the Fog (1945), A Thousand and One Nights (1945), and The Fighting Guardsman (1946). Winters had bit parts in MGM's Two Smart People (1946), and

365-482: A beach with a rifle, unaware he is in the crosshairs of yet another assassin. The Domino Principle was based on the sixth novel by former actor Adam Kennedy. New American Library purchased the paperback rights for $ 250,000 and there was considerable interest in the film rights before publication. The novel came out in 1975. The Los Angeles Times praised the book's "power and originality". The New York Times praised Kennedy as "a fine writer who maintains suspense until

438-713: A bread delivery truck to a rendezvous point underneath the Golden Gate Bridge . The two organization agents there immediately kill Spiventa and take Tucker to the Hyatt Regency San Francisco , where he meets General Tom Reser, a confederate of Tagge and Pine. Tucker is allowed to enjoy himself in the city before he is taken to his wife. He learns from news broadcasts that Spiventa's body was found and authorities believe Tucker himself escaped to Canada. He also surreptitiously meets with his lawyer, Arnold Schnaible, only for Schnaible to turn up dead soon afterward. Tucker

511-604: A humorous parody of her public persona. In a recurring role in the 1990s, Winters played the title character's grandmother on the sitcom Roseanne . Her final film roles were supporting ones: She played a restaurant owner and mother of an overweight cook in Heavy (1995) with Liv Tyler and Debbie Harry for James Mangold ; an aristocrat in The Portrait of a Lady (1996), starring Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich ; and an embittered nursing home administrator in 1999's Gideon . She

584-817: A lot of people didn't understand it," said Hackman later. "I didn't understand it either." The Domino Principle was released on VHS on January 1, 1998, by Avid Home Entertainment . The film was released on DVD on January 24, 2006, by Lionsgate Home Entertainment . Stanley Kramer and Kennedy were later going to reunite on an adaptation of Raise the Titanic! for Lew Grade, which replaced Araby as Kramer's second film under his deal with Grade. However Kramer left that project. San Quentin State Prison San Quentin Rehabilitation Center ( SQ ), formerly known as San Quentin State Prison,

657-470: A program to encourage pro-social behavior. By 1955, Spector was being interviewed in library journals and suggesting the prison library could contribute significantly to rehabilitation. The dining hall of the prison is adorned by six 20 ft (6.1 m) sepia-toned murals depicting California history. They were painted by Alfredo Santos, one-time convicted heroin dealer and successful artist, during his 1953–1955 incarceration. The murals were painted with

730-573: A series of films for United Artists: Susie Steps Out (1946), Abie's Irish Rose (1946) and New Orleans (1947). She had bit parts in Living in a Big Way (1947) and Killer McCoy (1947) at MGM, The Gangster (1947) for King Brothers Productions and Red River (1948). She played Brenda Martingale in Siodmak's Cry of the City (1948). Winters first achieved stardom with her breakout performance as

803-583: A short run. She had a small part in Rosalinda , an adaptation of Die Fledermaus (1942–44) which ran for 611 performances. Winters first received acclaim when she joined the cast of Oklahoma! as Ado Annie . She received a long-term contract at Columbia and moved to Los Angeles. Winters' first film appearance was an uncredited bit in There's Something About a Soldier (1943) at Columbia. She had another small bit in What

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876-617: A single viewing area; the facility that was being built included an injection chamber of 230 square feet (21 m ) and three viewing areas for family, victim, and press. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped construction of the facility the next week. The legislature later approved $ 180,000 to finish the project, and the facility was completed. In addition to state executions, three federal executions have been carried out at San Quentin. Samuel Richard Shockley and Miran Edgar Thompson had been incarcerated at Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary and were executed on December 3, 1948, for

949-686: A starring role in Witchfire (1986) and was credited as executive producer. She was in Very Close Quarters (1986), Purple People Eater (1988), and An Unremarkable Life (1989). Her final performances included Touch of a Stranger (1990), Stepping Out (1991) with Liza Minnelli , Weep No More, My Lady (1992), The Pickle (1993) for Mazursky, and The Silence of the Hams (1994). Later audiences knew her primarily for her autobiographies and for her television work, in which she usually played

1022-518: A thinned, raw sienna oil paint directly to plaster as he was denied use of other colors to paint with. Between 1992 and 1997, a " boot camp " was held at the prison that was intended to "rehabilitat[e] first-time, nonviolent offenders"; the program was discontinued because it did not reduce recidivism or save money. A 2005 court-ordered report found that the prison was "old, antiquated, dirty, poorly staffed, poorly maintained with inadequate medical space and equipment and overcrowded." Later that year,

1095-450: A thriller. Film critic Vincent Canby of The New York Times (which wasn't full of praise for the film) focused on the fact that the film's plot made no sense, noting at one point that when Hackman's character said "I've done a lot of bad things in my life, but I ain't going to do that" the question of "What is he not going to do?" was neither established nor answered. The Variety Staff wrote in their review: " The Domino Principle

1168-576: A version of The Women for Producers' Showcase then had a key role in I Am a Camera (1955) starring opposite Julie Harris and Laurence Harvey . Even more highly acclaimed was Charles Laughton 's 1955 Night of the Hunter with Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish . At Warner Bros, Winters was Jack Palance 's leading lady in I Died a Thousand Times (1955), then for RKO she co starred with Rory Calhoun in The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955). She

1241-639: Is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated place of San Quentin in Marin County . Established in 1852, and opening in 1854, San Quentin is the oldest prison in California . The state's only death row for male inmates, the largest in the United States, was located at the prison. Its gas chamber has not been used since 1993, and its lethal injection chamber

1314-431: Is a weak and tedious potboiler starring Gene Hackman as a tool of mysterious international intrigue, and a barely recognizable Candice Bergen in a brief role as his perplexed wife. Stanley Kramer’s film contains a lot of physical and logistical nonsense." James Monaco wrote that The Domino Principle doesn't do much but play with paranoia. According to Lew Grade , who helped finance the film, it "broke even." "I'm told

1387-411: Is blown up with his car. The couple return to Costa Rica where Tucker sees his new life dismantled as quickly as it was assembled: his false passport destroyed, his bank account emptied and Ellie run into and killed by a passing truck. Spiventa and Pine arrive later, but Tucker shoots them both and dumps their bodies in the ocean. The film closes with a resolute Tucker vowing not to give up as he walks down

1460-437: Is flown to Puntarenas , Costa Rica, where he is given a bank account with $ 200,000 and a house to share with Ellie, who was led to believe that Tucker had been released from prison pending a new trial. After a few idyllic days, Tagge, Pine and Reser return the couple to Los Angeles . Tucker is prepared for his task by being directed by Reser to shoot tin cans with a rifle while riding a helicopter with military livery, after which

1533-406: Is thought to be California's oldest surviving public work. Clinton Duffy was the warden from 1940 to 1952. He had fresh insights informing the reorganization of the prison structure and reformation of prison management. Prior to Duffy, San Quentin had gone through years of violence, inhumane punishments and civil rights abuses against prisoners. The previous warden was forced to resign. Duffy had

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1606-497: Is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among

1679-570: The Hollywood Studio Club , and in the late 1940s, she shared an apartment with Marilyn Monroe . Her performance in A Place in the Sun (1951), a departure from the sexpot image that her studio, Universal Pictures , was grooming her for at the time, brought Winters her first acclaim, earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress . Winters went to United Artists for He Ran All

1752-568: The Waban's timber remains a part of the new hospital structure inside the prison. After a series of speculative land transactions and a legislative scandal, inmates who were housed on the Waban constructed San Quentin which opened its first cell block, nicknamed "the Stones," in 1854. Before being retired altogether, this initial unit would come to be used as a dungeon after newer additions were constructed atop it. The Stones, however, survive to this day and

1825-690: The "East Block," a "crumbling, leaky maze of a place built in 1927"; and the "Adjustment Center" for the "worst of the worst." Most of the prison's death row inmates resided in the East Block. The fourth floor of the North Block was the prison's first death row facility, but additional death row space opened after executions resumed in the U.S. in 1978. The adjustment center received solid doors, preventing "gunning-down" or attacking persons with bodily waste. As of 2016 it housed 81 death row inmates and four non-death row inmates. A dedicated psychiatric facility serves

1898-602: The 1951 film Behave Yourself! as well as in a 1957 television production of A. J. Cronin 's novel Beyond This Place . Winters was a Democrat and attended the 1960 Democratic National Convention. In 1965, she addressed the Selma Marchers briefly outside Montgomery, Alabama on the night before they marched into the state capitol. Winters endorsed Robert F. Kennedy 's presidential campaign in 1968. Winters became friendly with rock singer Janis Joplin shortly before Joplin died in 1970. She invited Joplin to sit in on

1971-590: The 25-millionth copy of the AA Big Book was presented to Jill Brown, of San Quentin, at the International Convention of Alcoholics Anonymous in Toronto, Ontario , Canada. In 1947, Warden Duffy recruited Herman Spector to work as assistant warden at San Quentin. Spector turned down the invitation to be assistant warden and chose instead to become senior librarian if he could institute his theories on reading as

2044-728: The ABC series Vega$ , with Vega$ star Robert Urich . In 1980, Winters published the best-selling autobiography Shelley: Also Known As Shirley She followed it up in 1989 with a second memoir, Shelley II: The Middle of My Century . Winters' 1980s performances included Looping (1981), S.O.B. , episodes of The Love Boat , Sex, Lies and Renaissance (1983), Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984), Ellie (1984), Déjà Vu (1985), Alice in Wonderland (1985), and The Delta Force (1986). She did The Gingerbread Lady on stage. She had

2117-614: The Chrysler Theatre (several episodes), The Scalphunters (1968) for Sydney Pollack , Wild in the Streets (1968), Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968), Arthur? Arthur! (1969), and The Mad Room (1969). Winters played Ma Barker in Bloody Mama (1970) a big hit for Roger Corman . She had roles in How Do I Love Thee? (1970) and Flap (1970) for Carol Reed . She returned to

2190-834: The Condemned Inmate Transfer Program of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation . Of the 612 condemned inmates in California as of November 15, 2024, only 11 remained at San Quentin, with the last 11 inmates expected to also be transferred after completing needed medical or psychiatric care. Despite the transfers, the condemned inmates remain under sentence of death at their new institutions. Condemned women are held at Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla . As of December 2015, San Quentin held almost 700 male inmates in its Condemned Unit, or "death row." As of 2001, San Quentin's death row

2263-463: The East Block. Women executed in California are transported to San Quentin by bus before being executed. The methods for execution at San Quentin have changed over time. Prior to 1893, the counties executed convicts. Between 1893 and 1937, 215 people were executed at San Quentin by hanging , after which 196 prisoners died in the gas chamber. In 1995, the use of gas for execution was ruled "cruel and unusual punishment", which led to executions inside

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2336-612: The Gypsies (1978). She starred in a 1978 Broadway production of Paul Zindel 's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds , which only had a short run. Winters starred in the Italian horror film Gran bollito (1977) and played Gladys Presley in Elvis (1979) for TV. She was in The Visitor (1979), City on Fire (1979), The Magician of Lublin (1979) for Menahem Golan , The French Atlantic Affair (1979) and an episode of

2409-879: The Jamaica Jewish Center and learning Hebrew songs at her public school. Her family moved to Brooklyn , New York, when she was nine years old, and she grew up partly in Queens , New York, as well. As a young woman, she worked as a model. Her sister Blanche Schrift later married George Boroff, who ran the Circle Theatre (now named El Centro Theatre ) in Los Angeles , California. At age 16, Winters relocated to Los Angeles, and later returned to New York to study acting at The New School . Winters made her Broadway debut in The Night Before Christmas (1941) which had

2482-526: The Legislature for funds for a new death row as the current death row facilities were becoming filled. At the time the non-death row prison population was decreasing, opening room for death row inmates. As of 2015 the San Quentin death row had a capacity of 715 prisoners. All executions in California (male and female) take place at San Quentin. The execution chamber is located in a one-story addition close to

2555-657: The Matter with Helen? (1971), and two TV movies, Revenge! (1971), and A Death of Innocence (1971). She had supporting roles in Adventures of Nick Carter (1972) and had a coleading role in Something to Hide (1972) with Peter Finch . She starred in The Vamp for ITV Sunday Night Theatre . In The Poseidon Adventure (1972), she was the ill-fated Belle Rosen (for which she received her final Oscar nomination). She put on weight for

2628-778: The Month , and Kraft Theatre . In 1960, she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Mrs. Van Daan in George Stevens' film adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). She donated her award statuette to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Winters was in much demand as a character actor now, getting good roles in Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) and The Young Savages (1961). She received excellent reviews for her performance as

2701-720: The Way (1951) with John Garfield and RKO for Behave Yourself! (1951) with Farley Granger . Winters was top-billed in The Raging Tide (1951) at Universal. She was loaned to 20th Century Fox for Phone Call from a Stranger (1952), with Bette Davis . At Universal she did Meet Danny Wilson (1952) with Frank Sinatra and Untamed Frontier (1952) with Joseph Cotten . She went to MGM for My Man and I (1952) with Ricardo Montalbán . She performed in A Streetcar Named Desire on stage in Los Angeles. Winters took off some time for

2774-543: The area are named after Roman Catholic saints , and "San Quintín" is Spanish for " Saint Quentin ", the prison was not named after the saint. The land on which it is situated, Point Quentin, is named after a Coast Miwok warrior named Quentín, fighting under Chief Marin , who was taken prisoner at that place. In 1851, California's first prison opened; it was a 268-ton wooden ship named the Waban , anchored in San Francisco Bay and outfitted to hold 30 inmates. Some of

2847-766: The birth of her first child in 1953. She made her TV debut in "Mantrap" for The Ford Television Theatre in 1954. At MGM, she did Executive Suite (1954) and Tennessee Champ (1954), top-billed in the latter. Winters returned to Universal to appear in Saskatchewan (1954), shot on location in Canada with Alan Ladd and Playgirl (1954) with Barry Sullivan . She appeared in a TV version of Sorry, Wrong Number . Winters travelled to Europe to make Mambo (1954) with Vittorio Gassman who became her husband. She then shot Cash on Delivery (1954) in England. Winters performed in

2920-816: The cruel and vulgar mother of an illiterate, blind girl. She had supporting roles opposite Michael Caine in Alfie (1966) and as the fading, alcoholic former starlet Fay Estabrook in Harper (1966). She returned to Broadway in Under the Weather (1966) by Saul Bellow which ran for 12 performances. Winters played "Ma Parker" the villain in Batman . She was in a TV version of The Three Sisters (1966) and had roles in Enter Laughing (1967) for Carl Reiner , Armchair Theatre , Bob Hope Presents

2993-411: The end." In November 1975 Stanley Kramer announced he had purchased the rights for a reported $ 250,000. Kramer said the novel "is not only an exciting adventure but also stresses that such things could happen here." In March 1976 Kramer announced he had signed a two picture deal with Lew Grade to make the film, the first of which was to be The Domino Principle with Gene Hackman and Candice Bergen, and

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3066-552: The factory girl, in A Place in the Sun , directed by George Stevens , now a landmark American film. As the Associated Press reported, the general public was unaware of how serious a craftswoman Winters was. "Although she was in demand as a character actress, Winters continued to study her craft. She attended Charles Laughton 's Shakespeare classes and worked at the Actors Studio , both as student and teacher." She studied in

3139-461: The first day of location filming in San Quentin Prison, a guard was stabbed by an inmate. Hackman later said "we had a lot of problems on that film; I had arguments with Stanley Kramer." Hackman later read a published diary written by Kramer during the making of the film which described Hackman's behavior on set. The actor called the diary "embarrassing but I have to say it was accurate. And he

3212-558: The gas chamber by lethal injection. Between 1996 and 2006, eleven people were executed at San Quentin by lethal injection. In April 2007, staff of the California Legislative Analyst's Office discovered that a new execution chamber was being built at San Quentin; legislators subsequently "accuse[d] the governor of hiding the project from the Legislature and the public." The old lethal injection facility had included an injection room of 43 square feet (4.0 square meters) and

3285-402: The helicopter does a flyby of a rural estate. He realizes that he is expected to assassinate a politician and tries to back out. The organization retaliates by kidnapping Ellie and Tucker submits. The next morning, Tucker shoots the target as planned, though the getaway is marred by the target's security detail damaging the helicopter and mortally wounding the pilot, forcing it to be abandoned in

3358-435: The latter of which also earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture . She also appeared in A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977). She also acted on television, including a tenure on the sitcom Roseanne , and wrote three autobiographies. Shelley Winters

3431-689: The man-hungry Charlotte Haze in Stanley Kubrick 's Lolita (1962). Winters returned to Broadway on The Night of the Iguana (1962), playing Bette Davis 's role. She performed Off Broadway in Cages by Lewis John Carlino in 1963. Many of her roles now had a sexual component: in The Chapman Report (1962) she played an unfaithful housewife and she played madams in The Balcony (1963) and A House Is Not

3504-457: The marriage, the actress Sally Kirkland performed the wedding ceremony for the two at Winters' deathbed. Kirkland, a minister of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness , also performed Winters's non-denominational last rites. Winters had a much-publicized romance with Farley Granger that became a long-term friendship (according to their respective autobiographies). She starred with him in

3577-401: The mountains, where it is blown up along with the pilot's body. At a hideout, Tucker takes Pine hostage, demanding a plane and the return of his wife. Tagge complies. At Hollywood Burbank Airport , Tucker tells Tagge that he deliberately fired short, so he knows someone else killed the target. Tagge reveals that two other shooters were in place, including Spiventa, who is not only still alive but

3650-693: The murder of two prison guards during the Battle of Alcatraz . Carlos Romero Ochoa had murdered a federal immigration officer after he was caught smuggling illegal immigrants across the border near El Centro, California . He was executed at San Quentin's gas chamber on December 10, 1948. On March 13, 2019, after Governor Gavin Newsom ordered a moratorium on the state's death penalty, the state withdrew its current lethal injection protocol, and San Quentin dismantled and indefinitely closed its gas and lethal injection execution chambers. Though numerous towns and localities in

3723-455: The new inmates had all tested negative; however, few had been tested at all. By June 22, at least 350 inmates and staff had tested positive, in what a federal judge called a "significant failure" of policy. In March 2023, California governor Gavin Newsom announced a "historic transformation" of the then-called San Quentin State Prison as part of a project to improve public safety through a greater focus on rehabilitation and education. As part of

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3796-455: The offending prison guards fired and added a librarian, psychiatrists, and several surgeons at San Quentin. Duffy's press agent publicized sweeping reforms. San Quentin remained a brutal prison where prisoners continued to be beaten to death. The use of torture as an approved method of interrogation at San Quentin was banned in 1944. In 1941, the first prison meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous took place at San Quentin; in commemoration of this,

3869-550: The prisoners. A converted shower bay in the East Block hosted religious services. Many prison programs available for most inmates were unavailable for death row inmates. Although $ 395 million was allocated in the 2008–2009 state budget for new death row facilities at San Quentin, in December 2008 two legislators introduced bills to eliminate the funding. The state had planned to build a new death row facility, but Governor Jerry Brown canceled those plans in 2011. In 2015 Brown asked

3942-477: The project, the prison was renamed San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and an advisory group of rehabilitation and public safety experts was formed to advise the efforts. In 2020, 12 death row inmates at San Quentin died in the span of less than two months after a COVID-19 outbreak. All of the inmates were hospitalized before their deaths. Gang-pulp author Margie Harris wrote a story on San Quentin for

4015-591: The public. She delighted in giving provocative interviews and seemed to have an opinion on everything." That led to a second career as a writer. Though not a conventional beauty, she claimed that her acting, wit, and chutzpah gave her a sex life to rival Monroe's. Her claimed partners included William Holden , Sean Connery , Burt Lancaster , Errol Flynn , and Marlon Brando . Winters was married four times. Her husbands were: Hours before her death, Winters married long-time companion Gerry DeFord, with whom she had lived for 19 years. Though Winters' daughter objected to

4088-1123: The role and never got rid of it. Winters was top-billed in The Devil's Daughter (1973) for TV. She had a supporting role in Blume in Love (1973) for Paul Mazursky and Cleopatra Jones (1973) and leading parts in Big Rose: Double Trouble (1974) and The Sex Symbol (1974). Winters guest-starred on McCloud and Chico and the Man and was seen in Poor Pretty Eddie (1975), That Lucky Touch (1975), Journey Into Fear (1975), Diamonds (1975), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) for Paul Mazursky , The Tenant (1976) for Roman Polanski , Mimì Bluette... fiore del mio giardino (1977) with Monica Vitti , Tentacles (1977), An Average Little Man (1977) with Alberto Sordi , Pete's Dragon (1977), The Initiation of Sarah (1978), and King of

4161-442: The second of which was to be The Sheikhs of Araby , a comedy with Sid Caesar and Don Rickles. (That film would ultimately never be made.) Kramer said he never identified who hired the assassin or their target because "that is not the point of the picture. The point I tried to make is that there are powerful, undetected forces that affect our destiny without even us suspecting they exist." Filming took place in April and May 1976. On

4234-399: The shadows. Tucker dismisses Spiventa as paranoid. In the end, Tucker is unable to resist the prospect of reuniting with his wife Ellie and decides to accept the offer. Spiventa turns down Tucker's invitation to come along during the escape, but changes his mind at the last second. With arrangements made for the prison staff to turn a blind eye, the two convicts are driven out the main gate in

4307-440: The short-lived pulp magazine Prison Stories . The story, titled "Big House Boomerang," appeared in the March 1931 issue. It used San Quentin's brutal jute mill as its setting. Harris' knowledge of the prison came from her days as a newspaper reporter in the Bay Area , and her acquaintance with famous San Quentin prisoner Ed Morrell . The 1915 novel The Star Rover by Jack London was based in San Quentin. A framing story

4380-429: The stage to play Minnie Marx, mother of the Marx Brothers in the Broadway musical Minnie's Boys (1970), which ran for 80 performances. Winters wrote an evening of three one-act plays titled One Night Stands of a Noisy Passenger (1970–1971), which ran for seven performances; the cast included Robert De Niro and Diane Ladd . Winters had the lead in two horror films, Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971), and What's

4453-417: The stars and experiences portions of past lives. Shelley Winters Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift ; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades. She won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972),

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4526-399: The two men represent a mysterious organization, and Tagge presents him with an offer: in exchange for helping him escape and start a new life, Tucker must work for the organization for a few weeks. Tucker is initially wary of the offer and confides in his cellmate Oscar Spiventa, who warns him that he is being groomed as an expendable hitman by "them", a nameless cabal that runs the country from

4599-528: The victim of insane actor Ronald Colman in George Cukor 's A Double Life (1947). It was distributed by Universal which signed Winters to a long-term contract. She had a supporting role in Larceny (1948) then 20th Century Fox borrowed her for Cry of the City (1948). Winters was second-billed in Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) with Howard Duff , and Take One False Step (1949) with William Powell . Paramount borrowed her to play Myrtle in The Great Gatsby (1949) with Alan Ladd . Back at Universal she

4672-525: The warden was fired for "threaten[ing] disciplinary action against a doctor who spoke with attorneys about problems with health care delivery at the prison." By 2007, a new trauma center had opened at the prison and a new $ 175 million medical complex was planned. In 2020, the prison became the center of a COVID-19 outbreak, after a group of prisoners were transferred to San Quentin from the California Institution for Men in Chino, California . Initial reports suggested that San Quentin officials were told that

4745-426: Was last used in 2006 . The prison has been featured on film, radio drama, video, podcast, and television; is the subject of many books; has hosted concerts; and has housed many notorious inmates. The correctional complex sits on Point San Quentin, which consists of 432 acres (1.75 square kilometers) on the north side of San Francisco Bay . The prison complex itself occupies 275 acres (1.11 km ), valued in

4818-485: Was born Shirley Schrift in St. Louis , Missouri, the daughter of Rose (née Winter), a singer with St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre (" The Muny "), and Jonas Schrift, a designer of men's clothing. Her parents were Jewish ; her father migrated from Grymalow , Galicia , Austria-Hungary , in what is now Ukraine, and her mother was born in St. Louis to Austrian immigrants who were also from Grymalow. Her parents were third cousins. Her Jewish education included attendance at

4891-429: Was described as "the largest in the Western Hemisphere"; as of 2005, it was called "the most populous execution antechamber in the United States." The states of Florida and Texas had fewer death row inmates in 2008 (397 and 451 respectively) than San Quentin. The death row at San Quentin was divided into three sections: the quiet "North-Segregation" or "North-Seg," built in 1934, for prisoners who "don't cause trouble";

4964-557: Was in The Big Knife (1955) for Robert Aldrich . Winters returned to Broadway in A Hatful of Rain , in 1955–1956, opposite Ben Gazzara and future husband Anthony Franciosa . It ran for 398 performances. Girls of Summer (1956–57) was directed by Jack Garfein and co-starred George Peppard but only ran for 56 performances. On TV she reprised her Double Life performance in The Alcoa Hour in 1957. She appeared in episodes of The United States Steel Hour , Climax! , Wagon Train , Schlitz Playhouse , The DuPont Show of

5037-403: Was in Winchester 73 (1950), opposite James Stewart , a huge hit. Universal gave Winters top billing in South Sea Sinner (1950). She co-starred with Joel McCrea in Frenchie (1950). Winters originally broke into Hollywood films as a blonde bombshell type, but quickly tired of the role's limitations. She claims to have washed off her make-up to audition for the role of Alice Tripp,

5110-491: Was in comedies such as Backfire! (1995), Jury Duty (1995), and Mrs. Munck (1995) as well as Raging Angels (1995). Winters made an appearance at the 1998 Academy Awards telecast, which featured a tribute to Oscar winners past and present. The Associated Press reported: "During her 50 years as a widely known personality, Winters was rarely out of the news. Her stormy marriages, her romances with famous stars, her forays into politics and feminist causes kept her name before

5183-608: Was incredibly generous with his time and energy, his enthusiasm and his outrageous skill. For the first time I took a risk and didn't rely on my looks." However Bergen later called the film "terrible" and said she only did it "because it gave me the chance to play an ordinary woman. I put on a sappy wig and wore sappy clothes and for once in my life I didn't look like Candice Bergen and they [the critics] creamed me for that, saying I looked like Shelley Winters ." The film opened to mostly negative reviews and lasted only two to three weeks in theaters, dooming Kramer's first attempt at directing

5256-414: Was probably right in his remarks about me. The film we were making just wasn't worth the difficulties I was giving him. The truth is I was in trouble on that film and I got scared." In December 1976 Bergen said about the film, "thanks to Gene it turned out to be the best part I've ever done. I said, 'I have such a long way to go before I can become that woman, Gene. I just can't do it unless you help me.' He

5329-455: Was recruited in 1961; Tucker himself has been manipulated by the organization for over a decade. Tucker asks, "Is it over?", to which Tagge replies that it all depends on the man who gave the original order for the assassination: "If he panics, then the dominoes start to fall." Aboard the plane with Ellie, Tucker spots someone planting a toolbox in the back of Tagge's car. Unable to get the pilot to abort takeoff, Tucker watches helplessly as Tagge

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