No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!
Escape from Alcatraz
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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.
- Directed by
- Don Siegel
- Written by
- Richard Tuggle, J. Campbell Bruce, Don Siegel
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
Details
- Released
- June 22, 1979
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Status
- Released
- Language
- EN
- Country
- United States of America
- Budget
- $8,000,000
- Box office
- $43,004,381
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