Praised for a "blistering" and "Oscar-caliber" performance, Bacon lost 20 pounds to portray the physically and mentally broken Young.
While the film is "inspired" by real events, it takes significant liberties with the truth: subtitle Murder.in.the.First.1995.720p.BluRay.x...
In reality, Young was a hardened bank robber and kidnapper with a history of violence before ever reaching Alcatraz, not a sympathetic orphan who stole $5. After a failed escape attempt, Young is placed
The story follows Henri Young, a petty criminal sentenced to Alcatraz for stealing $5 to feed his starving sister. After a failed escape attempt, Young is placed in "the hole"—a dark, solitary confinement cell—for over three years, far exceeding the legal limit of 19 days. Emerging from this ordeal in a dazed, psychotic state, he immediately murders a fellow inmate with a spoon. Stamphill, assigned what seems like an open-and-shut case, argues that the dehumanizing torture at Alcatraz turned Young into an "unwitting weapon" and that the prison administration is the true conspirator in the crime. After a failed escape attempt