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Don Siegel

Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel

Don Siegel Interviewed

This interview with Siegel is in fact fabricated by stitching together extracts from a number of different, already existing interviews.

ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ (1979) Review by Jack Clancy [Cinema Papers]

Escape from Alcatraz opens with the camera panning across San Francisco Bay and the bridge, and then to the grim, gloomy island of Alcatraz. The first sequence, as the credits come up, shows the arrival, through rain and darkness, of a prisoner for the “Rock”: it is shot in tight, constricted close- up and mostly in shadow.

Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry: Saint Cop | Review by Pauline Kael

Dirty Harry is obviously just a genre movie, but this action genre has always had a fascist potential, and it has finally surfaced. Since crime is caused by deprivation, misery, psychopathology, and social injustice, Dirty Harry is a deeply immoral movie.

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