TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frankenheimer, John,
AU  - Brand,Neville
AU  - Thelma Ritter
AU  - Burt Lancaster
AU  - Karl Malden
TI  - Birdman of Alcatraz
AV  - DVD 003642 
PY  - 1962///
CY  - USA
PB  - Norma Productions Inc.
KW  - Drama
KW  - Biography
N1  - A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert; Thomas E. Gaddis
N2  - As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. When Stroud kills a guard, he is sentenced to be executed, and only his mother's impassioned intervention gets his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, which he must serve in solitary confinement. As he serves out his sentence in boredom and despair, one day he finds a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard. Stroud soon takes a deep interest in caring for birds, which gives him a new purpose in life, but which also brings new conflicts with prison authorities
UR  - http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0055798/
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