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Escape from Alcatraz

No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!

Rating 7.5 / 10Release June 22, 1979Runtime 113 min

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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