Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American biographical prison thriller film directed by Don Siegel. It is an adaptation of the 1963 non-fiction book of the same name by J. Campbell Bruce and dramatizes the 1962 prisoner escape from the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island. The film stars Clint Eastwood, and features Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, and Larry Hankin. Danny Glover appears in his film debut. Escape from Alcatraz 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).
- Starring : Clint Eastwood / Patrick McGoohan
- Genre : Action / Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller
- Country : United States
- Language : English
- Director : Don Siegel
- Production : Paramount Pictures / The Malpaso Company
- Distributor : Paramount Pictures / Cinema International Corporation (CIC) / Filmes Lusomundo / American Broadcasting Company (ABC) / American Movie Classics (AMC) / Argentina Video Home / CIC Video / CIC-Taft Home Video / Cine Plus Home Entertainment / Esselte Video / Finnkino / Mainostelevisio (MTV3) / Nelonen / Paramount Home Entertainment / Paramount Home Video / Paramount Television / Trifecta Entertainment and Media / Universal Pictures / Yleisradio (YLE)
Escape from Alcatraz movie
Escape from Alcatraz release date
- June 22, 1979 : Canada
- June 22, 1979 : USA
- September 10, 1979 : Sweden
- October 31, 1979 : France
- December 6, 1979 : Australia
- December 15, 1979 : Japan
- December 19, 1979 : Spain
- January 24, 1980 : UK
- January 25, 1980 : Ireland
- February 19, 1980 : Philippines (Davao)
- March 3, 2001 : Germany (DVD premiere)
- July 1, 2009 : France (re-release)
Escape from Alcatraz cast
- Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris
- Patrick McGoohan as Warden
- Roberts Blossom as Chester ‘Doc’ Dalton
- Jack Thibeau as Clarence Anglin
- Fred Ward as John Anglin
- Paul Benjamin as English
- Larry Hankin as Charley Butts
- Bruce M. Fischer as Wolf
- Frank Ronzio as Litmus
- Fred Stuthman as Johnson
- David Cryer as Wagner
- Madison Arnold as Zimmerman
- Blair Burrows as Fight Guard
- Bob Balhatchet as Medical Technical Assistant
- Matthew Locricchio as Exam Guard (as Matthew J. Locricchio)
In early 1960, Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood), a prisoner with an exceptional I.Q. who has absconded from other facilities, arrives at the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island. Soon after arriving, he is summoned to the office of the warden (Patrick McGoohan), who curtly informs him that Alcatraz is unique within the U.S. prison system for its exceedingly high level of security and that no inmate has ever successfully escaped. During the conversation, the warden fails to notice Morris steal one of the nail clippers on the desk.
Over the next several days, Morris makes acquaintances with a few inmates, including the eccentric Litmus (Frank Ronzio), who is fond of desserts, English (Paul Benjamin), a black inmate serving two life sentences for killing two white men in self-defense, and the elderly Doc (Roberts Blossom), who paints portraits and once grew chrysanthemums at Alcatraz. Morris also makes an enemy of a rapist called Wolf (Bruce M. Fischer), who tries to harass him in the showers and later attacks him in the prison yard with a knife. Both men are imprisoned in isolation in the hole.
Morris is released while Wolf stays. When the warden discovers that Doc has painted an ungainly caricature of him, as well as other policemen on the island itself, he permanently removes Doc’s painting privileges. In response, a depressed Doc hacks off his own fingers with a hatchet from the prison workshop and is led away.
Later, Morris encounters bank robber brothers John and Clarence Anglin (Fred Ward and Jack Thibeau), who are his old friends from another prison sentence, and he makes the acquaintance of prisoner Charley Butts (Larry Hankin). Morris notices that the concrete around the grille in his cell is weak and can be chipped away, which evolves into an escape plan. Over the next few months, Morris, the Anglins, and Butts dig through the walls of their cells with spoons (which have been soldered into makeshift shovels), make papier-mâché dummies to act as decoys, and construct a raft out of raincoats.
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