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Escape from Alcatraz

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

  • Movie
  • 1979
  • PG
  • 1h 53m

Directed by Don Siegel

7.5

TMDB audience rating
7.5 out of 10 from 3,343 votes

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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.

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Cast and crew

  • Clint Eastwood

    Clint EastwoodFrank Morris

  • Patrick McGoohan

    Patrick McGoohanWarden

  • Roberts Blossom

    Roberts BlossomDoc

  • Jack Thibeau

    Jack ThibeauClarence Anglin

  • Fred Ward

    Fred WardJohn Anglin

  • Paul Benjamin

    Paul BenjaminEnglish

  • Larry Hankin

    Larry HankinCharley Butts

  • Bruce M. Fischer

    Bruce M. FischerWolf

  • Frank Ronzio

    Frank RonzioLitmus

  • Fred Stuthman

    Fred StuthmanJohnson

  • David CryerWagner

  • Hank Brandt

    Hank BrandtAssociate Warden

  • Ray K. GomanCellblock Captain

  • Blair BurrowsFight Guard

  • Madison Arnold

    Madison ArnoldZimmerman

  • Garry Goodrow

    Garry GoodrowWeston

  • Ron VernanStone

  • Ed VasgersianCranston

Director
Don Siegel
Writer
Richard Tuggle and Don Siegel
Music
Jerry Fielding
Cinematography
Bruce Surtees