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Escape from Alcatraz

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

1979★ 7.5 · 3.2K1h 53mDramaThriller

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

Danny Glover
as Inmate

Patrick McGoohan
as Warden

Larry Hankin
as Charley Butts

Fred Ward
as John Anglin

Roberts Blossom
as Doc

Carl Lumbly
as Inmate

Madison Arnold
as Zimmerman

Bruce M. Fischer
as Wolf

Joseph Whipp
as Guard

Paul Benjamin
as English

Hank Brandt
as Associate Warden

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Release date: 1979-06-22

Budget: $8,000,000

Revenue: $43,004,381

Runtime: 1h 53m

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DramaThriller

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