Escape from Alcatraz

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Sent to Alcatraz for life, hardened crook Frank Morris plans his unauthorized departure from the island prison. Enlisting two bank-robber brothers as accomplices, Morris meticulously works out every detail before commencing his daring escape attempt.
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Netflix Rating: 3.8
NYT Critics' Pick: Inmate plans prison breakout just to annoy warden. Steady, credible, intriguing. Read the review
Top Rotten Tomatoes Critics: Escape from Alcatraz is relentless in establishing a mood and pace of unrelieved tension. full review

Variety Staff, Variety

It's 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. full review

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

What Mr. Siegel has made is fiction, a first-rate action movie that is about the need and the decision to take action, as well as the action itself. full review

Vincent Canby, New York Times

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Don Siegel

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