Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

Top Ten Performances - Burt Lancaster (15 movies items)

" as Robert Franklin Stroud "

Betty Field - Movies I've Viewed (10 person items)

" Betty Field and Burt Lancaster"

"A beautiful story but which never happened."

Birdman of Alcatraz

“The cinema is filled with collaborations between directors and their handsome proxies reuniting and exploring, if not refining, their individual and collective images. Behold the collaboration between director John Frankenheimer, one of cinema’s most sensitively masculine directors, and star Burt Lancaster. Their collaboration began with 1961’s The Young Savages and continued with 1962’s Birdman of Alcatraz after the original director, Charles Crichton, was fired by Lancaster.   What Frankenheimer and Lancaster manage to bring to this story of prison reform is a certain soulfulness and poetic ambition to highlight the need for prison reform. However, the portrait of Robert Stroud is, how shall we put it, incredibly selective and revisionist. This over-long film creates a portrait ” read more

Prisoner's Clothing - Movies (25 movies items)

" Burt Lancaster"

Microscope Scenes - Movies (21 movies items)

" Whit Bissell and Burt Lancaster"

Visitor and Prisoner - Movies (23 movies items)

" Thelma Ritter as Elizabeth Stroud Burt Lancaster as Robert Franklin Stroud Betty Field as Stella Johnson "

My Movie Diary 2016 (235 movies items)

"9.23At 2 and a half hours, Birdman of Alcatraz feels like a life sentence, but with Burt Lancaster's magnificent portrayal, the time ticks away gloriously to tell the story of real-life convict Robert Stroud who spent his whole life in prison studying birds. Lancaster was nominated for Best Actor but failed to win in a tight contest that included Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia and the winner, Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird. "

Actors' Best Movie (45 movies items)

"Burt Lancaster (kathy)"

Movie Theater and TV Series - Actors (100 tv items)

" Telly Savalas "