n the summer of 1962, the unthinkable happened at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary ... George "Machine Gun" Kelly, and Robert Franklin Stroud (the "Birdman of Alcatraz").

Birdman of Alcatraz is not ... the true story of Robert Stroud, it achieves a human dimension way beyond its predecessors. Birdman of Alcatraz is not really a prison picture in the traditional ...

The true story of three inmates who attempt a daring escape from the infamous prison, Alcatraz ... impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was ...

In 1912, the notorious and violent prisoner Robert Franklin Stroud is transferred to the Leavenworth Prison convicted for ... Stroud is transferred to Alcatraz and has to leave his birds behind.