Escape from Alcatraz (film)
1979 film by Don Siegel / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison action thriller film[3][4][5] directed and co-produced by Don Siegel, written by Richard Tuggle, and starring Clint Eastwood alongside Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, and Larry Hankin with Danny Glover appearing in his film debut.[6]
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Directed by | Don Siegel |
Screenplay by | Richard Tuggle |
Based on | Escape from Alcatraz by J. Campbell Bruce |
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Cinematography | Bruce Surtees |
Edited by | Ferris Webster |
Music by | Jerry Fielding |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $8 million[1] |
Box office | $43 million[2] |
The film, an adaptation of the 1963 non-fiction book of the same name by J. Campbell Bruce and based on the 1962 prisoner escape from the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island, 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).