Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- prison
- island
- based on novel or book
- escape
- san francisco
- california
- alcatraz prison
- prison warden
- based on true story
- prison escape
- 1960s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Fred Ward — John Anglin
- Paul Benjamin — English
- Larry Hankin — Charley Butts
- Bruce M. Fischer — Wolf
- Frank Ronzio — Litmus
- Fred Stuthman — Johnson
- David Cryer — Wagner
- Hank Brandt — Associate Warden
- Ray K. Goman — Cellblock Captain
- Blair Burrows — Fight Guard
- Madison Arnold — Zimmerman
- Directed
- Don Siegel
- Written
- Richard Tuggle
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 3,266 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Malpaso Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
