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Escape from Alcatraz

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

1979 · PG · 1h 53m

Directed by Don Siegel

7.5

TMDB audience score
3,343 votes, out of 10

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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.

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Cast

  • 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

  • Ray K. Goman
    Cellblock Captain

  • Blair Burrows
    Fight Guard

  • Madison Arnold
    Zimmerman

  • Garry Goodrow
    Weston

  • Ron Vernan
    Stone

  • Ed Vasgersian
    Cranston