The question of whether or not three inmates made it successfully to the mainland after an ingenious breakout from Alcatraz prison (in San Francisco Bay) in June 1962 still holds a firm grip on the public imagination.
This is the *allegedly* true story of those three inmates. Although no one had managed to escape from “The Rock” before (it was considered one of the most secure federal prisons in the US), bank robber Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood) masterminded this elaborately detailed and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape.
The warden in Escape From Alcatraz (Patrick McGoohan from The Prisonerand Danger Man)is as tough as you’d imagine, but not bright enough to realise prisoners are running around between the walls like rats.
Frank Morris
Clint Eastwood Warden
Patrick McGoohan Chester ‘Doc’ Dalton
Roberts Blossom Clarence Anglin
Jack Thibeau John Anglin
Fred Ward English
Paul Benjamin Charley Butts
Larry Hankin Wolf
Bruce M. Fischer Litmus
Frank Ronzio Johnson
Fred Stuthman Wagner
David Cryer Zimmerman
Madison Arnold
Director
Donald Siegel
Video
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