7.7
“Inside the rock called Alcatraz they tried to chain a volcano they called 'The Bird Man'!”
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
July 4, 19622h 27mEN
7.5
338 votes
Overview
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
Director
John FrankenheimerWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$2.6M
Revenue
$3.1M
Production Companies
Norma ProductionsUnited Artists
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CinemaSerf
8.0It's barely the start of the twentieth century when Stroud (Burt Lancaster) starts his long career in jail. He is already guilty of murder before he loses the plot with a malevolent guard and adds to his crimes. Sentenced to swing, it's only the direct intervention by his mother with the President himself, that sees his punishment commuted and him returned to the prison run by the psychologically brutal Harvey Shoemaker (Karl Malden) who rules his empire like it were a fiefdom - and Stroud is never to leave solitary confinement. On his brief daily wander round the prison yard he discovers a sp…
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