Escape from Alcatraz

Escape from Alcatraz

1979 · 113 min · EN · PG · 7.5 (3,173 votes)
Dir. Don Siegel · Starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward, Paul Benjamin · Music Jerry Fielding

No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!

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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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This film feels like a tightly wound spring, building quiet tension within the stark confines of an inescapable fortress. It's a study in grim determination and the human spirit's relentless drive for freedom, punctuated by moments of nail-biting suspense. Expect a methodical, almost procedural, journey into defiance.

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