According to historical accounts, out of the 36 Alcatraz inmates who tried to flee before the prison was closed in March 1963 ...

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 ...

“Birdman of Alcatraz is an absolute masterclass,” says ... Not in the heightened Brawl In Cell Block 99 way. This feels real, showing incarceration as an almost unendurable hell.