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Escape from Alcatraz
Drama, Thriller
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value restrained, procedural suspense and methodical escape stories grounded in prison realism rather than spectacle.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, contemplative
- Payoff
- catharsis, unease
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- confinement, freedom, ingenuity, institutional power
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, isolated maximum-security island prison
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