Why would you ever put Clint Eastwood in prison? He'll just glare people to death and then break out.Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood) has broken out of several lesser prisons and when he is sent to Alcatraz, he is determined to add its name to his list of previous addresses. Despite the warden (Patrick McGoohan) smugly proclaiming that Alcatraz's security cannot be breached, Morris begins to formulate a plan to get out before something bad happens to him.
This is based on a true account. Frank Morris was a convicted criminal with a near-genius IQ who escaped from Alcatraz in 1962. Whether or not his escape was successful is the point up for grabs since that would imply he survived the attempt. Morris was never arrested again so there's no official proof that he made it out of the bay alive.
The movie is a dramatization, of course, but not as wild of one as you might imagine when you see it. This falls under the "truth is stranger" column. As a film, it holds up extremely well. I would put it in the top three prison movies I've ever seen, after The Shawshank Redemption and The Last Castle.
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