Where was Escape from Alcatraz filmed?
1979 film, directed by Don Siegel.
- San Francisco
The story is set in San Francisco, so the filming stayed close to the setting.
Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed
- Set in
- San Francisco
- Filmed in
- San Francisco
About Escape from Alcatraz
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- Released
- 1979
- Director
- Don Siegel
- Cast
- Clint EastwoodPatrick McGoohanFred WardLarry HankinJack ThibeauRoberts BlossomBruce M. FischerGarry GoodrowPaul BenjaminFrank Ronzio
- Genre
- ActionPrisonDrama
- Based on
- Escape from Alcatraz
The story
On January 18, 1960, Frank Lee Morris, a burglar and escape artist, is transferred to the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island.
The warden fails to notice Morris steal a nail clipper from his desk.
As Morris comes to know inmate Charley Butts, his new cellmate, the warden discovers that Doc has painted a portrait of him, as well as other guards.
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