

“No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!”
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.
Director
Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$8,000,000
Revenue
$43,004,381
John Anglin
During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.