Movie: Alcatraz Breakout

Top 5 Billed Cast

Barrett Cooper
Barrett Cooper

Warden

Albert Eskinazi
Albert Eskinazi

Harding

Irmgard Millard
Irmgard Millard

Wife

Ray Myles
Ray Myles

George Frasier

Marland Proctor
Marland Proctor

John Grant, Inmate 1313

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    America's most feared prison. The nation's worst gangsters, such men as Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, and Alvin Karpis have been broken there, and no man has ever escaped from "The Rock." Alcatraz and its impregnable walls, escape-proof, until inmate 1313-0 proved it wasn't!

  • Release Date

    1978-01-01

  • Average

    4.5

  • Rating:

    2.3 starts
  • Tagline

    AMERICA'S HELLHOLE PRISON - ESCAPE-PROOF UNTIL JOHN GRANT PROVED IT WASN'T!

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    English
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