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Escape from Alcatraz
Alcatraz prison is a jail that is not fully penetrated throughout the ages. But perhaps that fortified federal prison has been breached once in history. This was the last time in twenty-nine years by three criminals, Al Capone and 'Berdman' Robert Stroud. It is the only time that it has been broken by the three prisoners whom we have never heard of again in history.
20 March 1936, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
22 August 1928, San Francisco, California, USA
31 December 1928, The Bronx, New York, USA
14 August 1951, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
24 June 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
27 June 1919, Long Beach, California, USA
8 June 1942, New York, New York, USA
31 March 1949, The Bronx, New York, USA
30 December 1942, San Diego, California, USA
26 July 1930, Oakland, California, USA
29 April 1939, USA
7 February 1936, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
4 November 1933, Malone, New York, USA
24 August 1917, Toronto, Canada
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.
September 21, 2004
Eastwood and McGoohan make this work.
April 15, 2015
Quiet, tense prison break drama has violence, profanity.
November 13, 2009
Siegel stages it all like a collection of haikus, all grilled corners and hard camera pans, not a single wasted frame
June 12, 2004
Classy and intriguing.
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.
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.
March 26, 2009
Escape from Alcatraz is relentless in establishing a mood and pace of unrelieved tension.
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.