Escape from Alcatraz
Escape from Alcatraz, USA, 1979.
Directed by Ridley Scott. With Tom Skerrift, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Hofm, Harry Dean Stanfor1, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica
Cartwright. April Video.
OSCAR Special Effects.
Synopsis of the Movie
Frank Morris, a prisoner with a history of several escapes, is sent to Alcatraz, the most brutal and infamous maximum security penitentiary in the USA, to serve out the rest of his sentence. Morris soon realizes how inhumane the place is and clashes with its cruel warden. Fed up with life on Alcatraz, Morris and two brothers plan the unthinkable: an escape from the island.
Movie review
Guide; Dom Siegel. Starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Roberts Blossom and Jack Tebow. CIC. Under the direction of Don Siegel, who made him famous eight years earlier as the brutal cop Harry, Clint Eastwood manages to break into the prison movie genre. This time he’s on the other side of the bar. He is a prisoner who has escaped from Alcatraz prison, located on the rocks of San Francisco Bay, California. The text is based on photographs from the 1960s.
A spaceship returning to Earth receives strange signals from an asteroid.
