Birdman of Alcatraz (1956) on DVD

Actor :              Betty Field, Burt Lancaster, Chris Robinson, Edmond O'Brien, Guy Trosper,
Director:          John Frankenheimer
Genre:             Drama
Year:                1962
Studio:             Olive Films
Length:            149 minutes
Released:        02/27/18
Rating:             Not Rated
Format:            Black & White, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Misc:                NTSC
Language:       English
Subtitles:         English
Dubbed:           N/A

DESCRIPTION:

In 1912, the notorious and violent prisoner Robert Franklin Stroud is transferred to the Leavenworth Prison convicted for murdering a man. When a guard cancels the visit of his mother, Elizabeth Stroud, 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, 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. He marries Stella Johnson and together they run a business, providing medicine developed by Stroud. But a few years after, Stroud is transferred to Alcatraz and has to leave his birds behind.