

Escape from Alcatraz
No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $8M
- Box office
- $43M
- Language
- English
- prison
- island
- based on novel or book
- escape
- san francisco, california
- alcatraz prison
- prison warden
- based on true story
- prison escape
- 1960s
- escape plan
- apologetic
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG22 Jun 1979
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical152 Nov 1979
United Arab EmiratesAE
- PhysicalDVD7 May 2001
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical6 Dec 1979
CanadaCA
- Theatrical22 Jun 1979
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1219 Oct 1979
- Physical1415 Jan 2001
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical155 Nov 1979
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1625 Jan 1980
FranceFR
- TheatricalU31 Oct 1979
- TheatricalRe-release1 Jul 2009
- Digital / OTTTPArte.tv31 May 2026
- TVTPArte31 May 2026
- TVTPAction8 Sept 2026
GermanyDE
- Theatrical12West Germany20 Sept 1979
- TVEast Germany8 Aug 1987
- PhysicalDVD3 Mar 2001
- Digital / OTTArte•tv31 May 2026
- TVArte31 May 2026
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1313 Dec 1979
Hong KongHK
- Theatrical20 Sept 1979
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Escape from Alcatraz was released on 22 June 1979.
Audience reviews
3- R9/10
r96sk
1/21/2022
Gotta feel for this due to the later emergence of <em>'<a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/the-shawshank-redemption/">The Shawshank Redemption</a>'</em> and even <em>'<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Break">Prison Break</a>'</em>, but <em>'Escape From Alcatraz'</em> still merits its own props as a great film. I love a good prison escape flick, shown by my love for those two aforementioned productions…
- J8/10
JPV852
11/8/2022
Seen this one several times and still is a well done and straight forward, well shot, escape-thriller with fine performances all around. Nothing fancy and just enough character development to make you care. **4.0/5**
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/5/2023
Clint Eastwood is at the top of his game in this thriller. He is bank robber Frank Morris, Incarcerated in one of America's most impregnable prisons, under the menacing gaze of warden Patrick McGoohan. He quickly concludes that he has little left to live for but escape. Together with twins Clarence and John Anglin (Fred Ward and Jack Thibeau) he puts together an intricate plan to escape their prison by using the util…
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