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Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

Film · 1979 · 113 min · PG · Drama · Thriller

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

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

Starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward, Paul Benjamin, Larry Hankin, Bruce M. Fischer

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In cinemas22 June 1979
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First release anywhere22 June 1979

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