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• IMDb Code: 0079116
• Original Music By: Jerry Fielding   
• Budget:
• Genre: Action | Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
• Plot Keyword: Escape | Inmate | Alcatraz | Island | Prison
• Rate: 7.6/10 total 78,502 votes 
• Runtime: 112 min
• Filming Location: Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California, USA
• Soundtrack: D Block Blues
• Stars: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom | See full cast and crew »
• Gross: $36,500,000 (USA)
• Director: Don Siegel (as Donald Siegel)
• Sound Mix: Mono
• Release Date: 22 June 1979 (USA)
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Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Writing Credits By:

• J. Campbell Bruce (book)
• Richard Tuggle (screenplay)

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Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Known Trivia

• The dangerous escape down the prison wall and into the water was performed without stunt doubles. It was performed by Clint Eastwood, Fred Ward, and Jack Thibeau, the latter two were cast in the film partially due to their athletic ability. Director 'Don Siegel (I)' twice thought that he had lost his actors to the treacherous currents. 42 of 42 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• The character of Charley Butts (played by Larry Hankin) is based on prisoner Allen West, who also participated in the 1962 escape attempt with Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers. However, in real life, West did not get cold feet and decide to stay behind (as Butts does in the film). On the night of the escape attempt, West tried to exit his cell through the hole he had dug in the ventilator grid in his cell wall, but discovered that a metal bar was blocking his way. The other 3 prisoners were forced to leave West behind as they escaped the island. 40 of 40 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• The television show, MythBusters (2003) proved that this escape worked (or was at least plausible). They recreated the entire escape right down to using the same materials to which the cons had access. They even used the same type of raincoats from which the boat was made. The makeshift raft crafted and crewed by the MythBusters team did indeed reach the shore, but at the Marin Headlands instead of Angel Island. 61 of 63 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• Visitors to Alcatraz Island may be interested in viewing the actual cells that had been home to the real-life inmates depicted here by Clint Eastwood (Frank Lee Morris), Fred Ward (John William Anglin), and Jack Thibeau (John's brother Clarence Anglin). Their cells #138, #140 and #144 are located in B Block ("Michigan Avenue") along the bottom row. The cells used in the film, however, are located in the C Block, middle cells on the Broadway side along the bottom row. 31 of 31 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• After the real life events that are depicted in the film, the prison was shut down. Because the penitentiary cost much more to operate than other prisons (nearly $10 per prisoner per day, as opposed to $3 per prisoner per day at Atlanta), and half a century of salt water saturation had severely eroded the buildings, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ordered the penitentiary closed on March 21, 1963. 30 of 30 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• As outlined in the lore of the prison and also included in the film's script, over twenty-nine years, there were only ever fourteen escape attempts made at Alcatraz Prison. Of the thirty-nine men involved, twenty-six were captured, seven were shot dead, three drowned, and three were never heard of again. It is these three prison escapees to which this movie is the subject of. 29 of 29 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• Clint Eastwood once said of his character Frank Morris: "Morris was a reclusive type guy. He had no education, but according to prison records, he had an I.Q. of 148. He could have been a success in life if he had channeled his pursuits a little differently". 26 of 26 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• The character of English (played by Paul Benjamin) is based on Alcatraz prisoner Clarence Carnes. In real life, Carnes was a dark-skinned Choctaw Indian, not African-American. 17 of 17 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• Film debut of Danny Glover, as one of the prison inmates. 32 of 34 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• During filming, tourists were still allowed onto the island, and a new boatload would arrive every half-hour. They became so much of a distraction that the majority of filming was moved to night shoots. 15 of 15 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |

Goofs: Continuity: In the cafeteria scene following Docs "accident", Clint's food tray contains a whole potato. After the conversation with the warden it is in pieces.

Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Plot: A dramatization of the one possibly successful escape from the infamous prison island in 1962. Full summary »  »

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Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Story: The true story of three inmates who attempt a daring escape from the infamous prison, Alcatraz Island. Although no-one had managed to escape before, bank robber Frank Morris masterminded this elaborately detailed and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape. In 29 years, this seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once by three inmates never heard of again. Written byNiz

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