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22/06/1979 Drama, Thriller 1h 53m
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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.

  1. Don Siegel

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Clint Eastwood

    Frank Morris

  2. Patrick McGoohan

    Warden

  3. Roberts Blossom

    Doc

  4. Jack Thibeau

    Clarence Anglin

  5. Fred Ward

    John Anglin

  6. Paul Benjamin

    English

  7. Larry Hankin

    Charley Butts

  8. Bruce M. Fischer

    Wolf

  9. Frank Ronzio

    Litmus

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-06-05
Clint Eastwood is at the top of his game in this thriller. He is bank robber Frank Morris, Incarcerated in one of America's most impregnable prisons, under the menacing gaze of warden Patrick McGoohan. He quickly concludes that he has little left to live for but escape. Together with twins Clarence and John Anglin (Fred Ward and Jack Thibeau) he puts together an intricate plan to escape their prison by using the utility tunnels to escape the complex then some makeshift inflatables to get across San Francisco bay. The facts of the story mean the ending is never in doubt - insofar as we actually...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$8,000,000.00

Revenue
$43,004,381.00

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