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Escape from Alcatraz
It is the story of the federal prison that is not completely penetrable throughout the ages. It is the prison of Alcatraz, which has been broken once in history. The barriers of that federal prison, once fortified in history for twenty-nine years, have been broken by three criminals, Al Capone and 'Berdman' Robert Stroud. This may have been the time the three prisoners managed to break their belts, but this may not be repeated over the centuries.
26 June 1920, Rhode Island, USA
7 February 1936, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
8 March 1936, Evanston, Illinois, USA
31 August 1940, New York City, New York, USA
23 April 1944, Bedford, Indiana, USA
18 July 1936, Dallas, Texas, USA
27 June 1919, Long Beach, California, USA
31 March 1949, The Bronx, New York, USA
12 June 1946, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
8 July 1922, California, USA
20 March 1936, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
4 June 1934, New Jersey, USA
29 April 1939, USA
24 August 1917, Toronto, Canada
30 October 1929, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 December 1916, Buffalo, New York, USA
20 April 1948, San Francisco, California, USA
3 June 1947, Detroit, Michigan, USA
April 17, 2005
Eastwood adds a lot of grit to this entertaining prison flick.
June 12, 2004
Classy and intriguing.
November 13, 2009
Siegel stages it all like a collection of haikus, all grilled corners and hard camera pans, not a single wasted frame
September 21, 2004
Eastwood and McGoohan make this work.
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.
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.
March 26, 2009
Escape from Alcatraz is relentless in establishing a mood and pace of unrelieved tension.
April 15, 2015
Quiet, tense prison break drama has violence, profanity.
September 01, 2010
One of the better prison break films.
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.
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.
