
He makes a gift of one of the blossom heads to Morris. Doc's portraits contain a chrysanthemum in them as a symbol of human spirit and freedom.

Over the next several days Morris makes acquaintances with a few inmates: the eccentric Litmus, who is fond of desserts English, a black inmate serving two life sentences for killing two white men in self-defense and the elderly Doc, who paints portraits and once grew chrysanthemums at Alcatraz. During the conversation, Morris notices 2 nail clippers on the Warden' desk and steals one of them. The Warden curtly informs him that Alcatraz is unique within the US prison system for its exceedingly high level of security and that no inmate has ever successfully escaped. In early 1960 Frank Morris, an exceptionally intelligent criminal who has absconded from other facilities, arrives at the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island.
Campbell Bruce and based on the 1962 prisoner escape from the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island, marks the fifth and final collaboration between Siegel and Eastwood, following Coogan's Bluff (1968), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), The Beguiled (1971), and Dirty Harry (1971). The film, an adaptation of the 1963 non-fiction book of the same name by J. Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison action thriller film directed and co-produced by Don Siegel, written by Richard Tuggle, and starring Clint Eastwood alongside Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, and Larry Hankin with Danny Glover appearing in his film debut.
