BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ. Burt Lancaster.
THE BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ
(1962)
NOW N COLOR
A TRUE STORY.
Starring
Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Neville Brand,
Thelma Ritter, Telly Savalas and Edmond O'Brien.
In 1912, the notorious and violent prisoner Robert Franklin Stroud (Burt Lancaster) is transferred to the Leavenworth Prison convicted for murdering a man. When a guard cancels the visit of his mother, Elizabeth Stroud (Thelma Ritter), due to a violation of the internal rules, he stabs and kills the guard and goes to trial three times. He is sentenced to be executed by the gallows, but his mother appeals to President Woodrow Wilson who commutes his sentence to life imprisonment. However, the warden, Harvey Shoemaker (Karl Malden), decides to keep Stroud in solitary for the rest of his life. One day, Stroud finds a sparrow that has fallen from the nest in the yard and he raises the bird until it is strong enough to fly. Stroud finds a motivation for his life raising and caring for birds and becomes an expert in birds.
Originally filmed in Black and White, we have colorized it.
All pictures displayed are actual screenshots taken from the movie
Supplied on a region free DVD
(region free means it will play worldwide without any area coding) it will play in your country.
Packaged in a cardboard sleeve, with printed artwork on both sleeve and disc.