Seven Miles from Alcatraz
A helpless girl trapped between desperate cons and enemy rats in a lonely lighthouse!
1942 · 1h 2m · Passed
Action, Thriller
Directed by
Edward Dmytryk
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Seven Miles from Alcatraz
Overview
After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse island, where they take over. The five inhabitants are stymied in their efforts to summon aid. But the island also figures in the schemes of a big Nazi spy ring; which will win out, the gangsters' greed or their patriotism?
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