Directed by: Don Siegel
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau
Time: 112 minutes
Based on the non-fiction book of
the same name by J. Campbell Bruce, this film recounts the 1962 prisoner escape
from the maximum-security prison of Alcatraz. After years of planning, Frank
Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin, who had all been sent to Alcatraz
after escaping other prisons, made their way out and disappeared. Nobody knows
for sure if they survived, but their bodies were never found.
I was curious about this film since I will be visiting the site of Alcatraz soon. This film is really well done. It pulls you into the story and you stick by it all the way through. Clint Eastwood really shined here in the role of Frank Morris. He did a good job making the intelligent criminal that inspired the film look real.
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