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Escape from Alcatraz

Escape from Alcatraz

1979
1 hr 53 min
7.509
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.

Reviews

  • r96sk

    Gotta feel for this due to the later emergence of 'The Shawshank Redemption' and even 'Prison Break', but ...

  • JPV852

    Seen this one several times and still is a well done and straight forward, well shot, escape-thriller with fine performances all around. Nothing fancy and just enough character development to make you care. **4.0/5**

  • CinemaSerf

    Clint Eastwood is at the top of his game in this thriller. He is bank robber Frank Morris, Incarcerated in one of America's most impregnable prisons, under the menacing gaze of warden Patrick McGoohan. He quickly concludes that he has little left to...