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Escape From Alcatraz (Widescreen)
- Starring: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom
- Director: Don Siegel
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No one can escape from Alcatraz, right? Try telling that to lifer Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood). This Donald Siegel-directed nailbiter is a reenactment of Frank Morris' 1962 attempt to bust himself and two other cons out of The Rock. Eastwood, as Morris, tilts with nasty warden Patrick McGoohan for a while, befriends several fellow prisoners, and picks the guys with whom he'll make his escape. Among his break-out buddies are the Anglin Brothers (Fred Ward and Jack Thibeau), with whom he'd served in other lockups, and several others who've got their own special reasons to despise the sadistic McGoohan. Filmed on location at the newly renovated Alcatraz, Escape From Alcatraz was another box-office winner for the Eastwood/Siegel combo. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Features
- Genre: Action/Adventure
- Category: Escape Film, Prison Film
- Theme: Escape From Prison
- Release Date: March 09, 1999
- Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)Rating Opens in New Window - Adult Language, Adult Situations, Violence
- Studio: Paramount
- Lead Actors: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward
- Supporting Actors: R.J. Ganzert, Danny Glover, Don Cummins, Denis Berkfeldt, Carl Lumbly, Don Siegel, Gilbert Thomas, Jason Ronard, Madison Arnold, Matthew Locricchio, Sheldon Feldner, Don Watters, Ed Vasgersian, Fritz Manes, Glenn Wright, Joe Whipp, Blair Burrows, Robert Hirschfeld, Ron Vernan, Ray K. Goman
- Director: Don Siegel
- Picture Format: Widescreen
- Run Time: 1 hr 51 min
- Language: English, French
- Subtitle Language: English
- Format: DVD
Additional Information
- DPCI: 246-00-1101
- ASIN: B002HMK2YS
- Catalog #: 11323544
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 7.52 inches length x 5.43 inches width x 0.64 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.11 pound.
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The script for this prison-escape picture is as lean and expressive as the scowl on Clint Eastwood's rough-hewn, familiar face. Each scene gives us either who, what, when, where, why, or how; the emphasis is on the how, though, for everything else flows from that. The early scenes and central relationships establish the brutality and caprice with which The Rock is managed, but really, the motivation for Frank Morris' escape is built in. No over-the-top soliloquies concerning the beauty of freedom are necessary, and the film quickly gets down to the business of delineating Morris' brilliant plan. Producer/director Don Siegel, screenwriter Richard Tuggle, and cinematographer Bruce Surtees depict the step-by-step sequence of events with pins-and-needles suspense and flatly realistic atmosphere. Afterwards, the film doesn't waste too much time relishing as the warden (Patrick McGoohan) eats crow. Escape From Alcatraz was one of Siegel's final efforts; Tuggle would go on to direct Eastwood and Genevieve Bujold in 1984's dark, kinky cop flick Tightrope. Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
