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.

• Paramount Pictures
• Malpaso Productions
• Clint Eastwood
• Patrick McGoohan
• Roberts Blossom
• Jack Thibeau
• Fred Ward
• Paul Benjamin
• Larry Hankin
• Bruce M. Fischer