Escape from Alcatraz

1979 113 min Drama, Thriller

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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IMDb 7.5 RT 97 Metacritic 76

budget $8,000,000 earnings $43,004,381 return 5.4x

director Don Siegel

writer Richard Tuggle

cast