Birdman of Alcatraz (Blu-ray)
Inside the rock called Alcatraz they tried to chain a volcano they called
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 2 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: February 27, 2018
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand & Edmond O'Brien | |
Performer: | Betty Field, Hugh Marlowe, Telly Savalas, James Westerfield & Whit Bissell | |
Directed by | John Frankenheimer | |
Edited by | Edward Mann | |
Screenplay by | Guy Trosper | |
Composition by | Elmer Bernstein | |
Art Direction by | Fernando Carrere | |
Produced by | Guy Trosper & Stuart Millar | |
Director of Photography: | Burnett Guffey |
Entertainment Reviews:
Burt Lancaster plays the role with a newfound subtlety and restraint.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 1/5 --
This preachy bio pic is a hokey take on the birdman with Lancaster being misused on every occasion.
Film Threat
Rating: B+ --
Frankenheimer's compelling, if slightly fictionalized biopic of Robert Stroud is extremely wel acted by Burt Lancaster and the rest of the cast, including Thelma Ritter and Telly Savalas.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 4/5 --
Absorbing biopic.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 4/5 --
Lancaster is wonderful; a tribute to the human spirit.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
The drama of his gradually converting his cell into a laboratory for the study of bird diseases is sure-fire material and Mr. Frankenheimer does justice to it;but it tails off at end into more prison melodrama.
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Esquire Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Birdman of Alcatraz is a quiet, contemplative work by a great director just as he's starting to work at the top of his game. It features some of the era's best black and white cinematography and a career-best performance by a screen legend.
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FanboyNation.com
Product Description:
Burt Lancaster reteams with John Frankenheimer, starring as the title character, Robert E. Stroud. Sentenced to a dozen years in prison for killing a man in 1909, he loses any chance for parole by stabbing another prisoner. Incarcerated in Leavenworth, he adds to his problems by killing a prison guard for refusing to let his mother (Thelma Ritter) visit him and is sentenced to death. His mother begs Mrs. Woodrow Wilson to intercede, and the president commutes Stroud's sentence to life in isolation, under the gaze of the harsh warden Harvey Shoemaker (Karl Malden). One day in the isolation yard he comes across a wounded sparrow, nurses it back to health, and eventually teaches it to perform tricks. With the departure of Shoemaker, Stroud is allowed to have more birds in his cell and begins a study of them. As the years pass, he becomes an expert on caged birds, finally writing a book on the diseases to which they are susceptible. After he wins a prize in a magazine competition, he receives a visit from Stella Johnson (Betty Field), who suggests they start a business manufacturing avian medicine. Backed by an outstanding cast, Lancaster gives one of his finest performances in this moving account of a vicious killer's spiritual rebirth.
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- Sales Rank: 50,168
- UPC: 887090139915
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