Escape from Alcatraz

Name: Escape from Alcatraz
Director: Don Siegel
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1979-06-22
Rating: 7.504

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

Film19791h 53mReleased

DramaThriller

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Director: Don Siegel
Language: English
Released: 1979-06-22
Runtime: 1h 53m

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7.53,225 votes on TMDB

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7.4

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The story

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.