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Escape from Alcatraz

1979 · directed by Don Siegel · 113 min
24,188 feet · Prominence
737th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw61

$43m worldwide in 1979 — $195m in today's money.

As released$43mIn 2026 money$195mRank1,685 of 8,589In 197917 of 61

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise87

Critics 87, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 87.

Critics87 → 43Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

Legacy45

Judged directly: Durable Eastwood prison classic, still watched.

Verdict45 of 100IMDb7.5 from 161kWikipedia26k views a monthAge47 years

Scored beside it · 962 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 61 praise 87 legacy 45averages 64, which places it at24,188 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Clint Eastwood22,533 ft