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Escape From Alcatraz
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List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $9.98
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Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward
Directed By: Don Siegel
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: EASTWOOD,CLINT
EAN: 9786305310365
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0792154568
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1999-03-09
Running Time: 112
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1979-06-22
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Editorial Reviews:
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Filmed on location on Alcatraz Island, this is an account of the only three men ever to escape from this maximum security prison.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG
Release Date: 28-MAR-2006
Media Type: DVD
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Summary: Escape From Alcatraz
Comment: Happy with the movie and service and shipping. My family is enjoying watching the movie no problems. Thank you Sylvia Brown.
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Summary: Dishonest advertising
Comment: This movie is billed as CC, closed caption. It is - but in FRENCH ONLY. LOL A bit slippery I'd say.
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Summary: Alcatraz themed Christmas
Comment: Girlfriends daughter became obsessed with all things Alcatraz this year. So a package of Alcatraz themed items was a big hit. The movie, the book are still being enjoyed.
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Summary: Amazingly directed, Old but still a great movie
Comment: I purchased this movie and recieved fast with standard shipping. I got this movie in memory of my grandfather that passed a couple years back. I was really happy I got this movie is is directed well and clint eastwood is one of the best actors.
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Summary: Worth Seeing Once
Comment: There are many reviews of this movie here that are quite odd. I haven't seen so many zero ratings by other readers for the reviews as in "Helpful" or not. Many of them appear to have been written by teenagers. They are short and don't say much at all.
As escape movies go, this one is okay, but using them as for comparison, this certainly isn't the best one. It's not nearly on the level of "The Great Escape."
I agree with the other reviewers who noticed it moves slowly.
One of the other problems I had with it is the lack of problems to overcome along the way to the escape attempt. There were no real setbacks as in other escape movies in the process of setting up the escape. They didn't get caught and have to start over, for example (cf. Colditz). None of the escape team were injured, killed, or replaced beforehand. There is no mole. There isn't a lot of tension or difference of opinion between the members of the escape team, or controversy deciding who gets to be part of the team.
Then, during the actual escape attempt, there really weren't any great new challenges to overcome where they had to adapt to unexpected events or circumstances. Sure there is drama and some suspenseful music in EFA, but there could have been so much more, and there will be if/when there is a remake.
Clint Eastwood plays his popular persona in Escape from Alcatraz that he played in numerous popular Westerns and police movies. Tough, reserved, independent, leader. He's more restrained than he was in the Dirty Harry movies he did a few years before this in the 1970s.
And that's one thing I liked about EFA: its restraint. There is some prison violence, but not that much considering how extreme the prison and its inmates. The warden is mean but not as vicious as some prison wardens in other prison movies (Midnight Express).
The cast of characters:
* a prison escape artist (Eastwood)
* a mean prison warden
* a middle-aged white inmate who likes to paint
* a cool "senior" black inmate who works at the library
* a spurned "gay" inmate who seeks revenge on Morris (Eastwood)
* a middle-aged inmate who has a pet mouse
* a few con men who become part of the escape team
* an inmate who is Morris's "neighbor"
* a few other inmates and guards
The characters aren't that interesting.
I would suggest you see it, but it's a movie to rent, not buy. I enjoyed it the first time.
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