Escape at Alcatraz

Escape at Alcatraz

Freedom has a price.

105 min · Action, Thriller

When a covert black-ops contractor seizes Alcatraz, the CIA smuggles hardened agent Lt. Jack Callahan inside to extract whistleblower Anya Turner and her damning evidence before the mission spirals into a deadly fight for survival.

Directed by Aaron L. Williams · Written by Camara Davis

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