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Summary: Eastwood's best movie!
Review: Escape from Alcatraz is one of my most favourite movies of all time and has to be one of the best true stories that ever made it to the screen as far as true crime goes. Yes, it was a true crime because they escaped from prison and that is a crime in itself. Eastwood is my favourite actor and has been since I was seven and I am now thirty one. His performance is one of the best here in this movie, he doesn't disappoint. There are some standout scenes in this movie-one is where the warden tells him no one has ever really made it on the outside after escaping from prison. They have either been caught or shot. The warden tells him no one has ever made it and no one ever will. When the warden tells Morris(Eastwood)that the look on his face looks like the warden has just issued him a challenge and Morris's face looks like as if to say, We'll see about that. Don't bet on it.
Other standout parts in this movie for me are the following scenes:
A prison guard tells Morris that he has a new job and that he will be paid fifteen cents an hour and Eastwood replies,"Well, I always knew crime would pay."
Another scene is a convict tells Eastwood he always wanted to see San Francisco but he thought it would be never like this-he had stolen a car from a prison guard and drove it across the state and wound up in AlacatraZ.
Same convict asks Eastwood did he know how old he was and he said he didn't know and the convict says,"Jeez, what kind of childhood did you have?"
Eastwood replies,"Short."
An actor I found interesting in this movie too was Fred Ward playing one of the Anglin brothers. The Anglins were caught trying to escape over a prison wall and sent to Alcatraz for Fifteen years. Ward asks himself, "I wonder how i would be after fifteen years in this place?" He never found out. He escaped with Morris.
How these three escaped, Morris and the Anglin Brothers was a stroke of genius. I wonder if they would all be alive now if they made it since they would be in their seventies now probably.
I recommend this movie a lot. I watched it three times in a row and I don't usually do that even with other great movies.
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Summary: questionable altogether
Review: first things first--escape from alcatraz is for prison film completists only, and is worth watching only for the performances of clint eastwood and patrick mcgoohan. it's pretty much a snoozefest, though fans of either actor will definitely enjoy it, as they're both showing off their acting chops in this one. still, the process of scraping holes in a wall does not for exciting cinema make.second--i have no idea what the reviewer below is talking about with regards to mr. mcgoohan's personal life. it's a hurtful and ridiculous accusation to begin with, one that i've never heard before in any interview, trade; or coming from any source; and at any rate, it has absolutely nothing to do with an actor's skills or their ability to be a great performer. in fact, i've never even heard of this idiotic rumor in a tabloid. perhaps the reviewer below needs to get his facts straight before talking trash about a great actor like mr. mcgoohan, who is undoubtedly one of the most underrated performers out there, but still one of the best.
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Summary: questionable altogether
Review: first things first--escape from alcatraz is for prison film completists only, and is worth watching only for the performances of clint eastwood and patrick mcgoohan. it's pretty much a snoozefest, though fans of either actor will definitely enjoy it, as they're both showing off their acting chops in this one. still, the process of scraping holes in a wall does not for exciting cinema make. second--i have no idea what the reviewer below is talking about with regards to mr. mcgoohan's personal life. it's a hurtful and ridiculous accusation to begin with, one that i've never heard before in any interview, trade; or coming from any source; and at any rate, it has absolutely nothing to do with an actor's skills or their ability to be a great performer. in fact, i've never even heard of this idiotic rumor in a tabloid. perhaps the reviewer below needs to get his facts straight before talking trash about a great actor like mr. mcgoohan, who is undoubtedly one of the most underrated performers out there, but still one of the best.
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Summary: Factual account of life on Alcatraz
Review: Having visited Alcatraz on a tour recently I have a great sense of appreciation for this movie. The park ranger on Alcatraz (it is now a national park) stated that this movie is the most realistic movie ever made of life on the rock! Clint Eastwood portrays a very believable inmate who has a genius IQ. The locations are all authentic and the living conditions were right in line with accounts given by past inmates during interviews. I also would recommend The Shawshank Redemption, but would like to mention that the wardens in the two movies are different people. Patrick McGoohan is the warden in Escape From Alcatraz and Bob Gunton is the warden in The Shawshank Redemption. Overall Escape From Alcatraz is one of the best prison movies to date and well worth the time to sit down and enjoy!
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Summary: About McGoohan being bi-sexual
Review: He's definitey more gay leading towards loving men than women. Back on The Prisoner series, he wrote many eps of, he wrote all types of scenes where he holds men's hands. It's obvious he's very uncomfoirtable in his sexuality. Who but a total jerk would buy his dumb excuse about not wanting to set bad examples for the kids by not kissing women? And what's this tabloid nonsense? He barely ever makes the Star or National Enquirer. Boy is that fairy a nervous type too. I stand by the view that he loved making this almost women-free picture. [...]
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Summary: Escape from Alcatraz (from a reality stand point!)
Review: I have had a fasination about what it was like being a prisoner on the rock.Recently I went to visit Alcatraz to take a look for myself and I was so stunned that I was actually on the rock, where they kept the worst of the worst. After my trip I immediatly rented Escape of Alcatraz(because out of all of the movies made of Alcatraz this one is the most acurate!).The movie was based on a true story about the 1962 breakout. After watching it I found interesting little things that hollywood changed just to make it unique. In the movie there were three people in on it ,but in reality there were four and Clint Eastwood's charactor wasn't the one that planned it. Sure his charactor made it out ,but since this was hollywood and Clint Eastwood was star of the movie his charactor needed to plan it and escape. The one who planned it didn't make it out with the others. He did try five hours after the other three made it out.
It's still a hollywood gem. I loved the movie a lot. Clint Eastwood is great in this one (as he does with all of his other films) I enjoyed it even more that they acually filmed the movie on Alcatraz(so if you've been there you would notice many of the places they filmed at). The story is very straight forward and rock hard performances. As well as an ending that leads you to differant conclusions.
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Summary: ALCATRAZ is TOP NOTCH EASTWOOD FILM
Review: I remember seeing this one on the big screen in 1980 and I will never forget the teaser trailer with the words "NO ONE HAS EVER ESCAPED FROM ALCATRAZ. AND NO ONE EVER WILL...". This film is top notch from start to finish. Filmed on location at Alcatraz with excellent supporting cast(Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, Robert Blossom, Patrick McGoohan)and if you look really close you can spot Danny Glover as an inmate.By the way, the actor playing the warden(Patrick McGoohan) is not the same actor who played the warden in Shawshank Redemption. Bob Gunton played the warden in that one.
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Summary: escape from Alcatraz
Review: I want to know how the flower got on the rocks at the end of the movie when they all three went into the water. The warden found a flower and I want to know where it came from. I know the artist who chopped off his fingers grew them. I am puzzled. Help
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Summary: This movie defines interesting!
Review: I wasn't alive when the real-life incident of some people escaping from the supposedly inescapable Alcatraz in 1962 took place, but after hearing about the incident, I knew I had to see this movie, which is based on the real-life incident. And oh yeah, it stars one of the greatest actors of all time, and his name is Clint Eastwood. "Escape From Alcatraz" seems to show realistic incidents of things that would take place in a prison, from having trouble getting along with certain inmates, to daydreaming about not being there. It's a known fact in this film that nobody has ever successfully escaped Alcatraz. There's been a few people who have died trying, but none have ever truly escaped. But Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood), who was sent to Alcatraz for getting caught trying to escape other prisons, has a plan in mind to try and do the unthinkable. Like in all of his movies, Clint Eastwood does a spectacular job, and I don't know about everybody else, but the idea of a movie where prisoners try to escape a maximum-security prison in which nobody thinks there could be a possible way of escaping, is VERY interesting. While you watch "Escape From Alcatraz" and see how Frank Morris and his friends struggle in prison and then try their best to make the first ever successful escape from the dreaded Alcatraz, you'll also find out that this movie is suspenseful, it has a good music score, and that it's hard to even blink while watching certain parts of it. If you like suspenseful dramas at all, then you've got to purchase "Escape From Alcatraz!" To say that it's worth owning would be an understatement.
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Summary: Movie man's review
Review: I'm honestly at a loss for why this movie is getting such good reviews. The only reason I liked it is because I am facinated by Alcatraz. The movie doesn't get you involved with the characters and the plotline is weak. I can't really recommend this but it wasn't horrible.
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