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Birdman of Alcatraz
Birdman of Alcatraz
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BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ

Directed by John Frankenheimer
United States, 1962
Biography, Drama, Crime

Synopsis

Originally sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for killing a man in Alaska in 1909, Stroud forfeits his parole over a prison knifing and is later sentenced to death while in Leavenworth Prison, where he murders a prison guard who refuses to let his overwrought mother Elizabeth visit him.

Synopsis

Originally sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for killing a man in Alaska in 1909, Stroud forfeits his parole over a prison knifing and is later sentenced to death while in Leavenworth Prison, where he murders a prison guard who refuses to let his overwrought mother Elizabeth visit him.