Escape from Alcatraz
No one can escape from Alcatraz, right? Try telling that to lifer Frank Morris. In 29 years, this seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and 'Birdman' Robert Stroud, was only broken once by three inmates never heard of again.
4 November 1933, Malone, New York, USA
26 June 1920, Rhode Island, USA
24 August 1917, Toronto, Canada
12 July 1941, San Francisco, California, USA
6 February 1940, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
16 September 1924, Marion County, Indiana, USA
19 March 1928, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
14 August 1951, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
24 June 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
4 June 1934, New Jersey, USA
20 April 1948, San Francisco, California, USA
1938, Pelion, South Carolina, USA
8 July 1922, California, USA
27 June 1919, Long Beach, California, USA
22 April 1932, Oakland, California, USA
8 June 1942, New York, New York, USA
22 July 1946, San Francisco, California, USA
31 August 1940, New York City, New York, USA
18 July 1936, Dallas, Texas, USA
29 April 1939, USA
26 July 1930, Oakland, California, USA
12 November 1927, Reading, Ohio, USA
April 17, 2005
Eastwood adds a lot of grit to this entertaining prison flick.
January 26, 2006
It's an austere depiction of the tedious routines of prison life, and of the courage and strength of spirit needed in coping with unpleasant warders, tough fellow-inmates, and a life sentence.
September 01, 2010
One of the better prison break films.
September 21, 2004
Eastwood and McGoohan make this work.
November 13, 2009
Siegel stages it all like a collection of haikus, all grilled corners and hard camera pans, not a single wasted frame
March 26, 2009
Escape from Alcatraz is relentless in establishing a mood and pace of unrelieved tension.
October 23, 2004
It's one of those very difficult exercises in which large emotions, like the compulsion to be free, are reflected in minute actions, like the chipping away at stone with a pocket nail clipper.
June 18, 2009
Escape from Alcatraz was the last of five films that Don Siegel directed with Clint Eastwood, and it's the end of an impeccable track record.
April 15, 2015
Quiet, tense prison break drama has violence, profanity.
June 12, 2004
Classy and intriguing.
May 20, 2003
What Mr. Siegel has made is fiction, a first-rate action movie that is about the need and the decision to take action, as well as the action itself.
