The true story of Robert Stroud forms the basis of John Frankenheimer's engaging prison drama about the eponymous inmate's lifelong imprisonment. Burt Lancaster plays Stroud, sentenced for a ...

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.

Alcatraz's most famous inhabitants included Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, and Robert Stroud - the so-called "Birdman of Alcatraz" - all men who endured tough conditions, rigorous discipline, ...

A first-hand account of the shooting of John Frankenheimer's The Birdman of Alcatraz by the film's camera operator, Richard H. Kline, ASC.