Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Genres: Thriller, Action
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward
Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison action 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.