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Escape from Alcatraz
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7.5San 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.
Cast
- Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris
- Patrick McGoohan as Warden
- Roberts Blossom as Doc
- Jack Thibeau as Clarence Anglin
- Fred Ward as John Anglin
- Paul Benjamin as English
Themes
- prison
- island
- based on novel or book
- escape
- san francisco, california
- alcatraz prison
- prison warden
- based on true story
- prison escape
- 1960s
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Don Siegel
- Screenplay by
- Richard Tuggle
- Based on
- Escape from Alcatraz , by J. Campbell Bruce
- Produced by
- Don Siegel
- Starring
- Clint Eastwood Patrick McGoohan
- Cinematography
- Bruce Surtees
- Edited by
- Ferris Webster
- Music by
- Jerry Fielding
- Production company
- The Malpaso Company
- Distributed by
- Paramount Pictures
- Release date
- June 22, 1979 ( 1979-06-22 )
- Running time
- 112 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $8 million
- Box office
- $43 million (domestic collection)
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Encyclopedic overview
Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison action thriller film directed and produced by Don Siegel, that depicts the June 1962 prisoner escape from the federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island. The screenplay, written by Richard Tuggle, is based on the 1963 nonfiction book of the same name by J. Campbell Bruce, and stars Clint Eastwood as escape ringleader Frank Lee Morris, alongside Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, and Larry Hankin, with Danny Glover appearing in his film debut.
Shot on location at Alcatraz, the film marks the fifth and final collaboration between Siegel and Eastwood, following Coogan's Bluff (1968), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), The Beguiled (1971), and Dirty Harry (1971). Released by Paramount Pictures on June 22, 1979, Escape from Alcatraz received critical acclaim from audiences and critics and was a financial success, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of 1979.
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