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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 03 July, 1962 DVD Release : 06 March, 2001 |
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Birdman of Alcatraz description John Frankenheimer scored his first success with this, his third theatrical feature and his second collaboration with producer-star Burt Lancaster (they would make five films together all told). Lancaster delivers an angry, brooding performance as real-life criminal Robert Stroud, a violent killer who, while in solitary confinement, became an internationally recognized authority on birds and their diseases. Based on the book by Thomas E. Gaddis, Frankenheimer creates a portrait of a withdrawn, antisocial prisoner who discovers his own potential after reluctantly rescuing a wounded sparrow from a storm and nursing it back to health. Lancaster's quiet portrayal comes from his eyes and restrained body language, earning him his second Oscar nomination. Costars Telly Savalas (as the talkative "neighbor" from the cell next door) and Thelma Ritter (as his controlling mother) were also nominated, but Frankenheimer's sensitive direction draws equally fine performances from Neville Brand, playing against type as the prison guard who slowly befriends Stroud, and Karl Malden as the tough warden whose ideas of confinement and punishment prompted Stroud to follow-up his studies of birds with a treatise on prison reform. This somber, subdued tale offers no truly happy ending, but it does present a powerful portrait of one man's efforts to earn back his dignity and respect in the worst of conditions. --Sean Axmaker |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Fantastic film, even if not accurate |
| Fantastic fictional account of Robert Stroud's, time in Prison.But the Film is only slightly based on the real Stroud. When fellow Prisoners got wind of the public outcry about keeping a poor old Bird Loving Gentleman Scientist locked up and all the letter writing campaigns and signature rallies being formed to have Stroud released, they began falling over with laughter.One of Stroud's fellow Inmates said it best about this film..
" They want Burt Lancaster released , Not Robert Stroud" In fact Robert Stroud was a vicious dangerous murdering sociopath, that deserved to die in prison. Don't miss this Film one of Lancaster's best. |
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