Second viewing; first viewed on an undetermined date before 1987.
A convict is sent to a high-security prison in the Alcatraz island. He devises an escape plan.
While this is probably one of the most excellently made films of all times, down deep it is little more than a mechanical entertainment device. It also gives a problematic answer to its dramatic problem of engaging the viewer's empathy: it turns bad guys into good ones and good ones into bad. As that is precisely what the zeitgeist required (and still does, apparently), it was no problem at all, actually.
Rating: 64 (unchanged)
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