Product Review

Escape From Alcatraz (DVD)

Superstar Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegal re-team for their fifth film in this fascinating account of the only three men ever to escape f rom the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz. In 29 years, the s eemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and " Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once- by three men never heard o f again. Eastwood portrays Frank Morris, the cunning bank robber who mas terminded the elaborately detailed and, as far as anyone knows, ultimate ly successful, escape. Patrick McGoohan is a superb counterpoint as the suspicious warden. Filmed on location in Alcatraz, this gritty and reali stic reenactment of a true story has all the power one expects of an Eas twood/Siegel movie.