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Escape from Alcatraz

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Release Date: Tuesday, 09 March 1999
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: $24.97

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Directed by: Don Siegel

Featuring: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward, Paul Benjamin, Larry Hankin

Superstar Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegal re-team for their fifth film in this fascinating account of the only three men ever to escape f rom the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz. In 29 years, the s eemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and " Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once- by three men never heard o f again. Eastwood portrays Frank Morris, the cunning bank robber who mas terminded the elaborately detailed and, as far as anyone knows, ultimate ly successful, escape. Patrick McGoohan is a superb counterpoint as the suspicious warden. Filmed on location in Alcatraz, this gritty and reali stic reenactment of a true story has all the power one expects of an Eas twood/Siegel movie.

Year: 1979
Time: 112 min.