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Escape from Alcatraz

1979

Don Siegel

Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau ...

7.6

34,810

Drama. Action San Francisco, january 1960. Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood), a hardened con with a history of prison breaks, is sent to serve the rest of his life sentence at Alcatraz -- America's most infamously brutal and inescapable maximum security prison. Morris quickly realizes the prison's dehumanizing effects and clashes with its cruel warden (Patrick McGoohan). Fed up with life at Alcatraz, Morris and two convict brothers (Fred Ward, Jack ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A taut and toughly wrought portrait of life in a prison (...) It is also a masterful piece of storytelling (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"An austere depiction of the tedious routines of prison life (...) As such, it's closer to Bresson's 'A Man Escaped' than to the Hollywood prison escape movie"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'Escape From Alcatraz' is not a great film or an especially memorable one, but there is more evident skill and knowledge of movie making in any one frame of it than there are in most other American films around at the moment."	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"'Escape from Alcatraz' is relentless in establishing a mood and pace of unrelieved tension. Pic’s only fault may be an ambiguous ending"	POS

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