Escape from Alcatraz

Name: Escape from Alcatraz
Director: Don Siegel
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1979
Rating: 4

Don Siegel • 113 min • 1979

DramaThriller

“No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!”

Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward, Paul Benjamin

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Synopsis

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.