Escape from Alcatraz (Blu-ray) PG
No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz...and no one ever will!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 12, 2017
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Clint Eastwood | |
Performer: | Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau & Larry Hankin | |
Directed by | Don Siegel | |
Edited by | Ferris Webster | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Tuggle | |
Composition by | Jerry Fielding | |
Produced by | Don Siegel | |
Director of Photography: | Bruce Surtees |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/5 --
Quiet, tense prison break drama has violence, profanity.
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Common Sense Media
...[The film] has improved with age...
USA Today
Rating: 3/4 --
Eastwood is working with director Don Siegel for the fifth and final time.
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Creative Loafing
Siegel stages it all like a collection of haikus, all grilled corners and hard camera pans, not a single wasted frame
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CinePassion
Clint Eastwood does a notable job. Moreover, the secondary actors are also effective. It's easy to understand the success of the film, destined to stand out this boring and mediocre holiday. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
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.
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Combustible Celluloid
Product Description:
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.