1979 · drama · thriller
Escape from Alcatraz
Directed by Don Siegel1h 53m1979
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
Our read: Escape from Alcatraz (1979) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- cold
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