Escape from Alcatraz
Jun 22, 1979 | IMDB 7.5
113 min Watch NowDrama, Thriller
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
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