Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

Synopsis

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
• Patrick McGoohan as Warden
• Roberts Blossom as Doc
• Jack Thibeau as Clarence Anglin
• Fred Ward as John Anglin
• Paul Benjamin as English
• Larry Hankin as Charley Butts
• Bruce M. Fischer as Wolf
• Frank Ronzio as Litmus
• Fred Stuthman as Johnson

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