Escape from Alcatraz(Movie, 1979)

Name: Escape from Alcatraz
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1979
Duration: T01:53:00
Rating: 3.8

| 1h 53min | Genres: Drama, Thriller

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 1,203 votes)

Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison action thriller film directed and co-produced by Don Siegel, written by Richard Tuggle, and starring Clint Eastwood alongside Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, and Larry Hankin with Danny Glover appearing in his film debut. The film, an adaptation of the 1963 non-fiction book of the same name by J. Campbell Bruce and based on the 1962 prisoner escape from the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island, marks the fifth and final collaboration between Siegel and Eastwood, following Coogan's Bluff (1968), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), The Beguiled (1971), and Dirty Harry (1971). ()

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About Escape from Alcatraz

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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Escape From Alcatraz (1979) Trailer #1 | Classic Trailers(Trailer, 2:08)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: San Francisco (California)

Plays in: San Francisco (California)

Based on: "Escape from Alcatraz" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Paramount Pictures, Malpaso Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 29 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Estonian (ET), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 12/13/1979 (World premiere: 06/22/1979)

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Larry Hankin, Jack Thibeau, Roberts Blossom, Bruce M. Fischer, Garry Goodrow, Paul Benjamin, Frank Ronzio, Danny Glover, Carl Lumbly, Jim Haynie, Madison Arnold, Joseph Whipp, Fritz Manes, Robert Hirschfeld

Director: Don Siegel

Producer: Don Siegel

Screenwriter: Richard Tuggle

Film Editor: Ferris Webster

Director of Photography: Bruce Surtees

Composer: Jerry Fielding

Production Designer: Allen E. Smith

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Pabėgimas iš Alkatraso"

"Flukten fra Alcatraz"

"Evadare din Alcatraz"

Keywords: based on novel or book, island, prison escape, alcatraz prison, prison warden, 1960s, escape plan, prison, san francisco, california, based on true story

Budget: 8,000,000 USD

Revenue: 43,004,381 USD (= 538%)

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