Watch NowEscape from Alcatraz (1979)
15
02/11/1979 (GB)
Drama, Thriller
1h 53m
- 75% (2864 votes)
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No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!
Overview
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
- Don SiegelDirector
- Richard TuggleScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$8,000,000
Revenue
$43,004,381
Keywords
- prison
- island
- based on novel or book
- escape
- san francisco, california
- alcatraz prison
- prison warden
- based on true story
- prison escape
- 1960s
- escape plan
Top Billed Cast
Clint Eastwood
Frank Morris
Patrick McGoohan
Warden
Roberts Blossom
Doc
Jack Thibeau
Clarence Anglin
Fred Ward
John Anglin
Paul Benjamin
English
Larry Hankin
Charley Butts
Bruce M. Fischer
Wolf
Frank Ronzio
Litmus
Fred Stuthman
Johnson
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