Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
"No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!"
Critics Score
🎬 86%
(RT: 97%, MC: 76) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Bruce M. Fischer as Wolf
Is Escape from Alcatraz good?
Most people think so. 73% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 86%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
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What Reddit Thinks
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Top comment: "One of the more elaborate attempts to escape and likely the only one that even possibly succeeded...."