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.
27 June 1919, Long Beach, California, USA
8 March 1936, Evanston, Illinois, USA
16 April 1913, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 June 1927, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
24 June 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
7 February 1936, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
20 March 1936, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
12 November 1927, Reading, Ohio, USA
24 August 1917, Toronto, Canada
5 July 1954, London, England, UK
31 March 1949, The Bronx, New York, USA
22 April 1932, Oakland, California, USA
20 April 1948, San Francisco, California, USA
31 December 1928, The Bronx, New York, USA
25 December 1916, Buffalo, New York, USA
12 July 1941, San Francisco, California, USA
12 June 1946, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
31 August 1940, New York City, New York, USA
30 December 1942, San Diego, California, USA
September 21, 2004
Eastwood and McGoohan make this work.June 12, 2004
Classy and intriguing.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.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.November 13, 2009
Siegel stages it all like a collection of haikus, all grilled corners and hard camera pans, not a single wasted frameApril 15, 2015
Quiet, tense prison break drama has violence, profanity.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.April 17, 2005
Eastwood adds a lot of grit to this entertaining prison flick.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.September 01, 2010
One of the better prison break films.March 26, 2009
Escape from Alcatraz is relentless in establishing a mood and pace of unrelieved tension.