No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!
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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Classical in form, earnest, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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Cast
- Clint EastwoodFrank Morris
- Patrick McGoohanWarden
- Roberts BlossomDoc
- Jack ThibeauClarence Anglin
- Fred WardJohn Anglin
- Paul BenjaminEnglish
- Larry HankinCharley Butts
- Bruce M. FischerWolf
- Frank RonzioLitmus
- Fred StuthmanJohnson
Crew
- Don SiegelDirector
- Richard TuggleScreenplay
- Bruce SurteesDirector of Photography
- Jerry FieldingOriginal Music Composer
- Ferris WebsterEditor
- Don SiegelProducer
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