Overview

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

Cast

Sean Connery

John Patrick Mason

Nicolas Cage

Dr. Stanley Goodspeed

Ed Harris

Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC

John Spencer

FBI Director James Womack

David Morse

Major Tom Baxter

William Forsythe

Special Agent Ernest Paxton

Michael Biehn

Commander Charles Anderson