Escape From Alcatraz DVD

Advantages: Clint Eastwood, Don Siegel
Disadvantages: Not aged very well

...no one has managed to escape from the prison alive and that he should accept his sentence and try and earn the privilege of getting a job within the walls. As he sets about serving out his sentence and keeping his head down, he makes acquaintances with little Italian Litmus, who keeps a pet mouse, and Doc, an elderly convict who lives for his painting. His arrival also comes to the attention of prison thug, Wolf, who takes a fancy to him and approaches ...
...of inmates, their plans to escape are hurriedly moved forward. Before the success of The Shawshank Redemption, and before Alcatraz became the focus of military action in The Rock, there was Escape From Alcatraz, featuring Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood. Based upon the real life events, surrounding the supposedly only successful escape attempt by a group of inmates from the infamous American prison. The outcome of which was a contributory factor ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent tense storytelling, Eastwood at his best
Disadvantages: Lack of action sequences

...from the shore. It's an escape artist's very worst nightmare. How do you reach safety without being swept out to sea or freezing to death in the notorious waters? How do you break out of an airtight security camp in the first place? These were all problems which faced Frank Morris, one of only three men who are believed to have escaped Alcatraz. This movie depicts the real-life story. Clint Eastwood steers the reigns and puts in a commanding performance ...
...emotion beyond his desire to escape the confinement. He remains resolute and stoic throughout, a loyal man who buys the audience's affection from his no-thrills attitude. It's the Eastwood style. And it's cranked up for maximum enjoyment. Charismatic in the most dogged of manners, he spits his presence in to every scene and it's easy to see where the inspiration for casting him in to the western classics came from. Morris has been locked up for armed ... Read review

Advantages: Great prison movie
Disadvantages: Left hanging at the end

...the prisoners are trying to escape undetected? For me they make riveting television, so for that reason alone Escape from Alcatraz is great viewing, and one of the best prison movies around (apart from the classic The Shawshank Redemption). This film is based on the true story of prisoners who managed to escape from one of the most secure prisons in the world, Alcatraz. The prison obviously couldn't have been that secure if a couple of prisoners ...
...or namely knows how to escape from prisons. In real life Morris was credited by prison officials for possessing a high level of intelligence, having escaped from numerous prisons before he arrived in Alcatraz. What I don't get is if they knew he was so good at escaping from prisons then why didn't they check his cell more closely, or move him to different cells every few months so he didn't have time to build a massive tunnel? Sorry, I'm criticising ... Read review

Advantages: Clint Easwood and the director (Don Siegel)
Disadvantages: Not knowing if they made the escape....

...(Fred Ward and Jack Thibeau) escape from supposedly the 'un-escapable' prison. It shows every detail of what happened in the time that he arrived and the time that they say he could of escaped. All of the film is very interesting showing the life of Frank in the prison, giving us an idea of what happened in the escape. It takes him a while to work out how to escape the prison, and he makes enemies and friends along the way, in which help him and ...
...perfectly and the story line is brilliant. The rock proves to be tough for Frank and the others but it's a shame that we will never know if in real life they made the escape or not. You can get this film from any DVD seller for £10 or less. ... Read review