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.

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 ...

Incarceration has been explored in many different ways over the decades, ranging from uplifting stories of perseverance in the likes of Shawshank or Birdman of Alcatraz, to bleaker and more brutal ...

The true story of three inmates who attempt a daring escape from the infamous prison, Alcatraz Island ... which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once by three inmates ...