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Summary: The greatest prison escape movie of all time!
Review: This film set the standard for all " escapism " movies to come. Clint is the man, as usual. The direction is top-notch. If the first hour didn't kill you with suspense, the second hour sure as hell will. Great performance by Patrick McGoohan is also a plus. For Clint fans, and fans of high quality movie making.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is a gripping, suspenseful tale, well-scripted and skillfully directed. Clint Eastwood is at his best, and the supporting cast is also superb. One of the best!
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Summary: "WELCOME TO ALCATRAZ"
Review: This is one of these great movies that keeps you cheering for the villans as they attempt to outwit the establishment; This time it's the notorious Alcatraz Federal Prison and it's cold and heartless warden, played excellently by Patrick McGoohan (he also played the equally cold and ruthless King Longshanks in Braveheart). By prison movie standards, this one is very realistic and keeps you in suspense right to the end. It's my second-favorite prison movie, just behind The Shawshank Redemption.Clint Eastwood plays Frank Morris, a life-long con who has been sent to Alcatraz in part because of his successful past escape attempts. The warden advises Morris that Alcatraz was built to keep all the "rotten eggs in one basket." Seconds later, Morris finds his first 'tool' to assist in his escape; the wardens nail clippers! Later, Morris meets his soon-to-be accomplices, brothers he met in another institution. It's not long before Morris finds his path to freedom, with the unlikely aid of a cockroach. Together, taking risky and cunning chances to sneak items into their cells to assist in their escape, the three men and one more-reluctant con find a way to make their break. The build-up to the escape is absolutely brilliant. Every scene leaves you on the edge of your seat. You can imagine what it was really like trying to pull off this escape. The beauty of this movie is that it is based on a true story. It is the most famous of all prison escapes and one of the few where the fate of the escapees is unknown to this day. It would be awesome, assuming they lived, that one or more of the escapees would come forward to tell their story today. I would support a pardon for all three of them just for pulling it off. As for their fate, I recently watched a documentary that attempted to replicate their escape and determine if they could have survived swimming in that frigid Bay-area water. Even an experienced swimmer could not make it. It was determined that unless a boat was waiting for them, they would have died of hypothermia and been swept out to sea by the strong currents. There was a fourth escapee of Alcatraz that we dont know the fate of: the little mouse that belonged to the old man. Remember, Morris put him in his shirt pocket and said, "You're coming along, too." I hope they made it!
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Summary: Welcome To The Rock
Review: This is pretty much a pretty agreed upon film by fans and critics alike. Director Don Siegel delivered one of the finest prison films, and told it like it is. Not a content film?. Please. Fan-worthy only?. Nope. This is the real deal. It's based upon a strue story of three inmates, and the greatest escape put together on the island prison known as Alcatraz. The one and only Clint Eastwood stars as real life convict Frank Morris, a life long criminal who was shipped to Alcatraz on a rainy night on January 20, 1960. Morris' crimes began at a very young age, but by the time he became a young adult, he was involved with narcotics possession and robbery. Because of his widely know intelligence, and his penchant for amazing escapes elsewhere, he is sent to the rock. There, he butts heads with the steely cool warden, played marvelously by Patrick McGoohan, who you will remember from the old TV show, "The Prisoner". Morris' plan of escape sets into motion when he meets fellow convicts, the Anglin brothers, John and Clarence. One of whom played by a then unknown Fred Ward. Through working in the prison and creating such helpful escape concoctions they made like rafts, and rubber boats, the plan was in motion. The biggest creation they made were life like dummies of their heads, to sit in their beds to fool their guards. The Anglin brothers even named their own dummy heads. They named them Oink and Oscar. If you don't know the story, or the whole thing, saying anything more like how they got out and what the result of their ingenious escape was, would be saying too much. I'll let you watch and find out yourselves. The movie has the right feel of a prison. Actually filming on location at the famed prison certainly didn't hurt either. That's one of the best things here that adds to the movie's truthful story and it's authenticity. Eastwood is one of cinema's best film idols, and this is definitley one of his best roles among many. He doesn't portray Frank Morris as a character on a page in a Hollywood film script, but fully imbues the role with realism and humanity. McGoohan is equally good as the warden, and the scenes and chemistry between the two are as engaging and interesting as anything else. The movie may be slow and uneventful for some, but anyone with an attention span and appreciation for a fine film faithfully re-telling a true story, you will see just how addictive this film really is. The tours they have at Alcatraz include seeing just where and how the three got out of their cells. Of course, their cells are marked and shown, and there are pictures of the dummy heads. Sadly, the real things are not on display for anyone to see. There is a sign saying which cell Eastwood used in the making of the film too. There hasn't been anything like it since.
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Summary: Great GREAT and even more Great
Review: This move was the most suspenceful movie I have ever seen. It kept me awake all night long. It was an awsome flick. Clint plays an awsome role that noone elese could play if they tried. He was awsome. You should see it quick.
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Summary: Great, Epic Thriller
Review: This movie is one of the best movies I have ever seen. There is so many very suspenseful scenes and good directing by Siegel. By far this movie has to go down in my books as one of the best movies ever and will be in my collection.
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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE EVER
Review: This movie is the best movie you will ever see. Its based on a true story with Clint Eastwood.(which is a very good actor). The movie is very exciting and is very clever. I think this is the best movie ever and I recomend it to anybody who likes to watch good movies.
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Summary: Escape From Alcatraz
Review: Very good movie that is very accurate in relation to the true story. Anything with Eastwood in it will rule anyway. Only thing I would change on the DVD version would be that only the "Widescreen" version is available. I would much rather see the movie in the regular television format, and keep the option to view in in widescreen if I wanted to.
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