No one can escape from Alcatraz, right? Try telling that to lifer Frank Morris. In 29 years, this seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and 'Birdman' Robert Stroud, was only broken once by three inmates never heard of again.
26 July 1930, Oakland, California, USA
24 June 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
22 July 1946, San Francisco, California, USA
31 August 1940, New York City, New York, USA
25 March 1924, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
12 June 1946, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
8 July 1922, California, USA
16 September 1924, Marion County, Indiana, USA
31 March 1949, The Bronx, New York, USA
16 April 1913, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 June 1927, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
4 November 1933, Malone, New York, USA
16 March 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 December 1916, Buffalo, New York, USA
31 December 1928, The Bronx, New York, USA
31 May 1930, San Francisco, California, USA
12 November 1927, Reading, Ohio, USA
30 October 1929, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 July 1954, London, England, UK
20 April 1948, San Francisco, California, USA
November 13, 2009
Siegel stages it all like a collection of haikus, all grilled corners and hard camera pans, not a single wasted frame
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.
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.
March 26, 2009
Escape from Alcatraz is relentless in establishing a mood and pace of unrelieved tension.
April 15, 2015
Quiet, tense prison break drama has violence, profanity.
September 21, 2004
Eastwood and McGoohan make this work.
June 12, 2004
Classy and intriguing.
April 17, 2005
Eastwood adds a lot of grit to this entertaining prison flick.
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.
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.
September 01, 2010
One of the better prison break films.
