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Escape from Alcatraz
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.
1979 · Directed by Don Siegel · 113 min · Drama · Thriller · 17 frames
Tagline
No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!
Crew
- Screenplay: Richard Tuggle
- Cinematography: Bruce Surtees
- Edited by: Ferris Webster
- Music: Jerry Fielding
- Production design: Allen E. Smith
- Produced by: Don Siegel
Cast
- Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris
- Patrick McGoohan as Warden
- Roberts Blossom as Doc
- Jack Thibeau as Clarence Anglin
- Fred Ward as John Anglin
- Paul Benjamin as English
- Larry Hankin as Charley Butts
- Bruce M. Fischer as Wolf
- Frank Ronzio as Litmus
- Fred Stuthman as Johnson
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, Malpaso Productions
- Budget: $8,000,000
- Box office: $43,004,381
- Themes: prison, island, based on novel or book, escape, san francisco, california, alcatraz prison, prison warden, based on true story, prison escape, 1960s
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