Betty Field, Burt Lancaster, Crahan Denton
True life story of Robert Stroud, who spent fifty-three years in Alcartaz prison and became a world-famous ornithologist.
DVD Release Date: March 6, 2001
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July 12, 2009it's pretty melodramatic but i'd forgotten how really touching it is too. i love lancaster and thelma ritter and r.i.p. karl malden. according to people who knew the real stroud, his character in the film is highly fictionalized.
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April 11, 2008The adaptation of a book relating the life of the real Robert Stroud. Robert Stroud spent 54 years in prison and 43 of those in solitary confinement.Only one other inmate in the history of the American penal system was in solitary longer. This is a man who only had a third grade ...( read more)
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July 30, 2007A Hollywoodized dramatization of the Birdman story which didn't seem like Alcatraz at all.
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June 3, 2007Not a true telling or the story but a nice one and good job to Burt Lancaster in this role, and look for Telly Salavas in this one to as the "Birdman's" Alcastraz cellmate.
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March 1, 2007Another classic prison drama, more a well-crafted and brilliantly acted character study than concentrating on the usual escape shenanigans.
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October 15, 2009More a tale of personal growth and ultimate succes than a prison film, this one is a great story that could have been even greater, if it wasn't so polished, in order to meet Hollywood's criteria for a crowd-pleaser. The obvious symbolization of bird=freedom of the soul (even tho...( read more)
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September 13, 2009Burt Lancaster is a tour de force in this movie. I ended up both respecting the man he portrays and feeling sorry for him.
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July 27, 2009I really enjoyed this. I don't usually care much for oldies, but I do have an interest in prison stories, so I gave this a chance and I'm glad I did. It was quite long, I had to stop it halfway through and finish it the next day, but it was worth it.
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