Paul Benjamin and Clint Eastwood in ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ but like one of those cat-lapped Bond villains with a purring desire to rule the world. Roberts Blossom and Clint Eastwood in ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZįellow inmates range from a nice old fella with a pet mouse (probably based on The Birdman from Alcatraz) and comic actor Larry Hankin as a poor dolt with a name that's a punchline all its own, Charley Butts, ironically based on the fourth would-be escapee who was more a lethal criminal than Morris or The Anglin Brothers: criminal siblings played by square-jawed ruffians Fred Ward and Eastwood regular Jack Thibeau.Īnother inmate is veteran actor and father-figure type Roberts Blossom, whose penchant for painting is ruined by an overboard warden played by famous over-actor Patrick McGoohan, whose actual performance is ironically subdued here. seeming less a biopic of gritty prison life and more a gritty-for-a-TV-Movie with violence and swearing. and had anyone besides the granite-faced/never-lose Eastwood starred, there might have been some suspense during their various brawls.īut ALCATRAZ is as much a cemented vehicle for Clint as he and director Siegel's DIRTY HARRY. The primary threat is bullying lifer Wolf (Bruce M. Fischer and Clint Eastwood in ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ enters the infamous rock island as horror movie lightning lights up the dark Alcatraz interior, the upcoming sequences has Clint's character meeting friendly inmates and, with one major exception, the most notorious prison in American history doesn't seem all that awful.īruce M. the real life prisoner who actually escaped with two brothers and were never heard of since. Clint Eastwood in ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2ĭon Siegel's ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ starred his most famous actor/collaborator, Clint Eastwood, and it turns out the picture seems more Eastwood-directed because of the rather safe, mainstream appeal.įor instance, once Eastwood as new inmate Frank Morris.
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