

Birdman of Alcatraz
Stroud is convicted in Alcatraz for the rest of his life. Out of the blue, stroud rescues a sparrow and raises him until he can fly, which he can find the motivation for his life raising & caring for birds.


















20 March 1914, Seattle, Washington, USA

22 March 1913, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

7 August 1929, Chicago, Illinois, USA

2 November 1920, New York City, New York, USA

15 July 1927, Bakersfield, California, USA


February 17, 1901 in Canada

11 March 1908, Italy

June 13, 1913 in Toledo, Ohio, USA

30 January 1911, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

21 March 1923, Pelham Manor, New York, USA

11 November 1906, Malta, Ohio, USA

March 23, 1918 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

15 December 1911, New York City, New York, USA

27 November 1892, Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA

14 June 1930, Cumberland, Maryland, USA

21 January 1911, The Bronx, New York, USA

26 April 1904, Thessaly, Greece

11 December 1910, New York City, New York, USA

1939, Akron, Ohio, USA

23 September 1904, Glencoe, Illinois, USA

13 August 1920, Griswold, Iowa, USA

2 September 1909, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

10 September 1915, New York City, New York, USA

8 February 1916, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

3 December 1922, New York City, New York, USA

October 8, 1917

16 February 1905, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

22 March 1912, Chicago, Illinois, USA

5 November 1938, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA



June 18, 2001
Lancaster's brilliant performance anchors Frankenheimer's fine film, a liberal-minded, optimistic celebration of the power of redemption.
February 12, 2007
Prison biopic that's more interested in its liberal message about prison reform working for redemption than in anything else.
October 05, 2002
Lancaster is wonderful; a tribute to the human spirit.
August 09, 2006
Even with its limping screenplay and general drift toward competence rather than excellence, Birdman does pull us well enough into its fistful of compelling characters.
January 08, 2011
Frankenheimer's compelling, if slightly fictionalized biopic of Robert Stroud is extremely wel acted by Burt Lancaster and the rest of the cast, including Thelma Ritter and Telly Savalas.
July 16, 2007
This preachy bio pic is a hokey take on the birdman with Lancaster being misused on every occasion.
February 12, 2004
Absorbing biopic.
May 07, 2011
An exhaustive abstraction of the John Frankenheimer social outcast