I forget how it happens in the movie, doesn't his lawyer give them to him from her handbag?
I watched a documentary and it says a Guard helped him store weapons in the ceiling or something along those lines
His Lawyer Gave the gun to him but it's in the Attach Case!!!
shareI don't understand this, either.
His lawyer is in a seperate room, with a plexiglass screen between the two of them. When the guard has to conveniently go to Besse's cell, does he leave open the door for her (the solicitor) to hand Mesrine the case of guns?
And why was the solicitor compliant in the escape? Surely the end of her career?
...might also add; would the prison really allow workmen to be using a ladder in the recreation yard whilst prisoners are about?
Despite these niggles, a pretty good movie, I thought.
Yeah, either they took some artistic liberties or 70's French jail security was really that bad! (wouldn't someone have searched they lawyer going in?)
shareAlthough I have to check the lawyer/guns scene I do know that the ladder escape apparently went exactly how the movie depicts it. It's in the making of on the DVD. I think they had one of the back-then guards help out with the details. Of course they took some liberties which can be viewed as "niggles" but this one isn't one of 'm. Considering that they were both escape artists they must've planned every detail, especially the bit with the mace and the filefolder.
Plus, these were different times. The prison was I guess more if a simple correctional facility where you just put the bad guys. Studies into criminal psychology were still pretty new back then.
It might have been a "simple correctional facility" compared to what they've got now. But back then it was billed as a maximum security prison where a jailbreak was considered impossible.
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