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{{quote| "''No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz... and no one ever will.''"}}
 
The good guys are the bad guys, and the bad guys are the good guys. This is Hollywood's version of the story of, in case you couldn't tell by the title, the Great Escape from Alcatraz.
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It's no wonder Hollywood had to grab this story- if any writer tried to make something like this up, they would have been told, "[[Reality Is Unrealistic|Get Real!]]"
 
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=== Tropes that apply to the movie include: ===
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]
* [[The Alcatraz]]: The one and only.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Frank Morris. Being played by [[Clint Eastwood]], this is practically a given.
* [[Determinator]]: You'd have to be to pull this off.
* [[The End - or Is It?]]: Did Morris and the Anglin brothers reallymake it or die escapetrying??
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** In [[Real Life]], there hasn't been a sign of any of the escapees in over 45 years. If even one of them survived, he'd kept one of the biggest secrets of all time with him, possibly to the grave...
* [[Great Escape]]
* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: They're more complacent than anything. And it's not their fault no one did an architectural analysis of the decades-old prison to determine how being in the middle of a seawater bay is rusting out the walls...
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: In one of the great casting gags of all time: [[The Prisoner|Patrick McGoohan]] as [[The Warden]].
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: As we watch, something in our heads is screaming we shouldn't be cheering for a criminal trying to break out of prison, but we do.
** Of course, they're not ineffectual, but very sympathetic (we're never told the severity of most of the criminals' real misdeeds, and the ones we hear about like English's backstory make it seem justified in their actions). Morris is a genius-level career criminal with a knack for escaping prisons. Which is why they sent him to The Rock, where no one has ever escaped...
* [[Locking MacGyver in Thethe Store Cupboard]]
* [[Never Bring a Knife Toto A Fist Fight]]: Morris asks how English wound up in "The Rock":
{{quote| '''English''': I was in a bar in Tennessee. Then these two dudes start hassling me. That was their first mistake. They pulled knifes. That was their second mistake. They didn't know how to use them. That was the last mistake they ever made.}}
* [[N-Word Privileges]]: Clint has 'em, but only because he and English quickly figure each other out.
* [[The Old Convict]]: English.
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