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Escape from Alcatraz (film)
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Escape from Alcatraz (film)
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).
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