
Feature film — 1979
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
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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A high-signal pick with 3,338 votes.
Paramount Pictures / Malpaso Productions
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Director: Don Siegel
On screen
Cast & crew

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
David Cryer
Wagner

Hank Brandt
Associate Warden
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