A group of inmates plan an escape from the high-security prison on Alcatraz Island, chipping away at walls, creating dummies, and constructing a raft, eventually managing to successfully escape, leaving their fate unknown, while the Warden faces consequences and Alcatraz is later closed. Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American English-language Biography Crime movie starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick Mcgoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward, Paul Benjamin and Lars Hensen. The movie is inspired from Escape from Alcatraz by J. Campbell Bruce. The Malpaso Company was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Don Siegel and Robert Daley. Escape from Alcatraz is written by J. Campbell Bruce and Richard Tuggle and it is directed by Don Siegel. Paramount Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Escape from Alcatraz was released on 22nd June 1979 and takes a screen time of 112 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released and became successful at box office. Escape from Alcatraz was made on a budget of $8 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $43 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Richard Tuggle. Cinematography was done by Bruce Surtees and editing by Ferris Webster. The music was composed by Jerry Fielding.
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Escape from Alcatraz Reviews and Ratings
Average Review Rating : positive
Positive Review Rating : 64%
Roger Ebert
Its 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. ( Read More )
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Despite this dramatic flaw, Escape from Alcatraz will probably hold its own in the history of prison break movies. ( Read More )
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Escape from Alcatraz (1979) 4 Stars (out of 4) Tweet Rolling the Rock By Jeffrey M. Anderson Buy Escape from Alcatraz on DVD Escape from Alcatraz was the last of five films that Don Siegel directed with Clint Eastwood, and its the end of an impeccable track record. ( Read More )
Andrea Beach
ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ is a low key but suspenseful prison escape story. ( Read More )
Vincent Canby
Craft is something that a Siegel film demonstrates without half trying. ( Read More )