Escape from Alcatraz (film)
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Movie poster by Bill Gold
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| Directed by | Don Siegel |
| Produced by | Don Siegel Robert Daley |
| Written by | Richard Tuggle |
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Escape from Alcatraz (1963 book) by J. Campbell Bruce |
| Starring | Clint Eastwood |
| Music by | Jerry Fielding |
| Cinematography | Bruce Surtees |
| Edited by | Ferris Webster |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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112 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8 million |
| Box office | $43 million |
Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American docudrama 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, Jack Thibeau and Fred Ward as prisoners Frank Morris, Clarence Anglin and John Anglin. Allen West was played by Larry Hankin; his character's name was changed to Charley Butts. Patrick McGoohan portrays the suspicious, vindictive warden and 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).
On January 18, 1960, Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood) arrives at the maximum security prison Alcatraz, having been sent there after escaping from several other prisons. He is sent in to meet the warden (Patrick McGoohan), who curtly informs him that no one has ever escaped from Alcatraz and no one ever will. Eventually he meets his old friends, bank robber brothers John and Clarence Anglin (Fred Ward and Jack Thibeau), and he makes the acquaintance of the prisoner in the cell next to his, car thief Charley Butts (Larry Hankin). Morris befriends numerous other inmates, including English (Paul Benjamin), a black inmate serving two life sentences for killing two white men in self-defense; the eccentric Litmus, who refers to himself as Al Capone (Frank Ronzio) who keeps a pet mouse and is fond of desserts, and the elderly artist and chrysanthemum grower Doc (Roberts Blossom).
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