Escape from Alcatraz

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.

Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 thriller film directed by Don Siegel. Clint Eastwood appears as Frank Morris, Patrick McGoohan as Warden, Roberts Blossom as Doc, and Jack Thibeau as Clarence Anglin.

It runs 113 minutes and was released in June 1979. Written by Richard Tuggle. It was produced by Malpaso Productions. The film began as a novel.

Members will find defiant, assertive, prison escape, and apologetic in it. In the United States it streams on fuboTV, History Vault, and MGM+ Amazon Channel. It scores 7.5 out of 10 from 3,338 TMDB voters and it carries a PG rating.

The Great Escape, Marley & Me, and Girl, Interrupted make useful companions to Escape from Alcatraz, all filed under escape and prison.