Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Kernel Score: 86% · 3,076 ratings
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1979-06-22
Runtime: 113 minutes
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
- 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