Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Note: this print runs 96 minutes against a recorded 111 to 112 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Larry Hankin, Jack Thibeau, Roberts Blossom, Bruce M. Fischer, Garry Goodrow
Directed by Don Siegel
Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison thriller film directed and produced by Don Siegel, that depicts the June 1962 prisoner escape from the federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island. The screenplay, written by Richard Tuggle, is based on the 1963 non-fiction book by J. Campbell Bruce, and stars Clint Eastwood as escape ringleader Frank Lee Morris, alongside Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, and Larry Hankin, with Danny Glover appearing in his film debut.
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