I took a trip to Alcatraz Island to visit the shooting locations for the 1979 classic Escape from Alcatraz. The film made a big impression on my young mind, and it's time to finally check this one off the bucket list. What an amazing location!!

Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison thriller film directed by Don Siegel. It is an adaptation of the 1963 non-fiction book of the same name by J. Campbell Bruce and dramatizes the 1962 prisoner escape from the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island. The film stars Clint Eastwood, and features Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, and Larry Hankin. Danny Glover appears in his film debut. Escape from Alcatraz 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).

Footage from the film is used strictly for educational purposes to compare the 1979 locations to 2021.


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Escape from Alcatraz:

Directed by Don Siegel
Screenplay by Richard Tuggle

Based on Escape from Alcatraz by J. Campbell Bruce

Produced by Don Siegel, Robert Daley

Starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan
Cinematography Bruce Surtees
Edited by Ferris Webster
Music by Jerry Fielding

Production company - The Malpaso Company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures

Release date
June 22, 1979

Running time
112 minutes