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Escape from Alcatraz(1979)
Status: Released
Date: 1979-06-22
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3036 Votes
Time: 1h 53m
No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
Budget: $8,000,000.00
Revenue: $43,004,381.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Escape from Alcatraz
Top 10 Billed Cast
Clint Eastwood
Frank Morris
Patrick McGoohan
Warden
Roberts Blossom
Doc
Jack Thibeau
Clarence Anglin
Fred Ward
John Anglin
Paul Benjamin
English
Larry Hankin
Charley Butts
Bruce M. Fischer
Wolf
Frank Ronzio
Litmus
Fred Stuthman
Johnson
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