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Escape from Alcatraz, 1979
English
USA
Profile of Escape from Alcatraz
The mood of Escape from Alcatraz is exciting, rough, and suspenseful. The plot centers around a prison breakout, prison life, and going against the odds. It is a thriller, drama, and action movie. In approach, Escape from Alcatraz is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a prison. The setting is San Francisco. Escape from Alcatraz happens in the 1960s. It is originally a true story and based on a book. The movie is known for being a classic and critically acclaimed. Escape from Alcatraz is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that it includes violent content.
Summary of Escape from Alcatraz
Based on the true story of the only escape from Alcatraz--a maximum-security prison built on an island located in shark-infested waters to contain the most dangerous, hardcore criminals and most gifted escape artists in the U.S.--Escape from Alcatraz stars Clint Eastwood as inmate Frank Morris, the man who plans the escape. When he arrives at Alcatraz in 1960, Morris has an interview with the pompous warden (Patrick McGoohan), who assures him that the prison is escape-proof, well aware of his record of prison breaks. Upon entering the prison population, Morris makes friends with some of the more human inmates, including Doc (Roberts Blossom), an old lifer who paints in his cell; and English (Paul Benjamin), the prison librarian. Less engaging is Wolf (Bruce Fischer), a huge prisoner who tries to stab Morris during a knife fight in the exercise yard after the latter had refused the hulk's generous offer to become his punk. Morris emerges from his punishment in solitary to find that his old friends, the Anglin brothers Jack (Fred Ward) and Clarence (Jack Thibeau), have arrived. He knows that with them he can make a break. This meditative, deliberately paced film might be the only Zen prison movie on record. Eastwood, Siegel, and screenwriter Richard Tuggle brilliantly evoke the look and feel of prison life in this exhaustively researched project, eschewing excess violence and histrionics as they make clear how much patience, ingenuity, and careful planning are involved in an escape of this magnitude.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 22 June 1979 |
| Runtime: | 112 min |
Cast and Crew
as Frank Morris
as Warden
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Users Reviews
- 21.September.2008
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- by: barak gilon
- barak gilon rated this movie
8/10Great
