Alcatraz(2012)
Overview
A unique team, consisting of a federal agent, a police officer and a conspiracy theory novelist, investigate the shocking reappearance of Alcatraz's most notorious prisoners, fifty years after they supposedly vanished.
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Top 7 Billed Cast
Rebecca Madsen
Emerson Hauser
Diego Soto
Lucy Banerjee
E.B. Tiller
Edwin James
Ray Archer
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