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Photobusta promotional poster for the 1979 film
Escape from Alcatraz (original Italian title: Fuga da Alcatraz), starring Clint Eastwood. The movie is a prison drama based on the real-life 1962 escape from the federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, led by inmate Frank Morris.
Key Information
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris, with Patrick McGoohan as the strict warden
Plot: The film dramatizes the meticulous planning and execution of the only possibly successful escape attempt from the maximum-security prison, from which no one had ever successfully fled.
Release Date: The film was released in the United States on June 22, 1979, and marks the fifth and final collaboration between Eastwood and Siegel.
Historical Basis: The escape involved Frank Morris and two brothers, John and Clarence Anglin, whose bodies were never found. The film is considered largely accurate to the known facts of the event. |
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