A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

• DirectorFranklin J. Schaffner
• Release16 December 1973
• Genre
  Crime / Drama
• Duration2h 31m
• Budget$12,000,000
• Revenue$53,267,000
• Rate
  

  7.8
  1969 reviews
• Productions

  Allied Artists Pictures, Solar Productions, Corona-General