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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9786305310365
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792154568
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 09, 1999
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 6312
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: June 22, 1979
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Frank morris and two brothers plan their 1962 escape from the rock-island prison. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/11/2006 Starring: Clint Eastwood Bruce Fischer Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Don Siegel
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One of Clint Eastwood's two most important filmmaking mentors was Don Siegel (the other was Sergio Leone), who directed Eastwood in Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff, Two Mules for Sister Sara, and this enigmatic, 1979 drama based on a true story about an escape from the island prison of Alcatraz. Eastwood plays a new convict who enters into a kind of mind game with the chilly warden (Patrick McGoohan) and organizes a break leading into the treacherous waters off San Francisco. As jailbird movies go, this isn't just a grotty, unpleasant experience but a character-driven work with some haunting twists. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - Eastwood last colloboration with Don Siegel
This film based on a true incident involving the last successful escape from Alcatraz was the last colloboration between Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel and the result is a winner!! Tightly directed by Siegel in a semi-documentary style, Eastwood is perfectly cast as the lone mastermind behind the escape but before that occurs we are treated to the oppressive treatment of the convicts as adminstred by cruel, sadistic warden, excellently played by Patrick McGoohan. In fact the scenes between McGoohan and Eastwood are perfectly played and an able supporting cast led by Roberts Blossom, Larry Hankin, and in a minor role, Danny Glover help out also. If you like prison dramas in the mode of "Brute Force" or Siegel's "Riot in Cell Block 11" (another classic of its kind) then you'll like this one.
Rating:  - Clint Eastwood! Need I say more?
The vast majority of Eastwood movies are great and what is there to not like about this one? Clint is great, as usual, and you find yourself loving every minute he gets over on "the man." Once again a "Man's Man." Love the scene where he punches out a fellow con who wants to kill him. If you love Dirty Harry or the Eiger Sanction you will love this one also.
Rating: - FUN
This movie keeps you interested with the distinct characters. Love learning the cleverness of these desperate felons to prevail escape.
Rating: - The real Prison Break!
The famous island prison of Alcatraz has been the basis for more than just one film that was based on actual events that happened there. Perhaps the most famous of all is "Escape From Alcatraz" starring Clint Eastwood. Eastwood plays the part of Frank Morris, who along with several other inmates was famous for being the only ones to effectively escape from the prison. Although the results of that 1962 feat resulted in nothing more than tattered lifejackets washed up in far away places and the F.B.I. deeming them dead in the water, the mystery surrounding their whereabouts and the ingenuity used in making an impossible escape possible, still makes for a fascinating drama.
Director Don Siegel can be applauded here for bringing to the forefront a wide variety of cons who all have a story, personality and ultimately become a part, in one way or another, of the portrayal of Frank Morris and his days on the rock. The period setting is good and shows some hard luck cons as well as downright evildoers like the one known as "Wolf", who is an antagonist of Frank's throughout the film. The lines of racial tension are shown very believable scenes while still providing a building friendship between Frank and the con known as English. Frank Ward plays John Anglin and does a great job of being a somewhat happy go lucky fella whose brother is also at the rock with him. Together, the brothers soon realize they share the same goal as Frank Morris...to break out of the rock.
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Rating: - WAITING.....
I have this DVD and I am waiting and hoping PARAMOUNT will make a Special Edition of this movie with a new Anamorphic (16x9) widescreen presentation and interview and commentary with Clint Eastwood before it's too late.
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