A dramatization of the June 1962 escape from Alcatraz by three convicts: Frank Morris, Charles Angling and John Anglin. Amidst the trappings of a maximum security prison, they come up with ingenious means to slowly penetrate the ventilization shafts of their cells, cover their nights' work, build masks to leave in their bunks, and work their way to the outside. The center of the drama is the planning, mainly by Frank Morris, and the tensions as the day of the escape approaches. It works--they get to the shoreline, and that's where the story ends. Did they get off the island? They were never seen again, and remain unaccounted for to this day. This is the first of several dramatizations of the escape from Alcatraz, appearing only six months after the actual event.