Saturday, August 22, 2020

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) - prison drama from director John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Telly Savalas and Edmond O'Brien

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 149 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: John Frankenheimer/Charles Crichton
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055798/

Cast

Burt Lancaster ... Robert Franklin Stroud
Karl Malden ... Harvey Shoemaker
Thelma Ritter ... Elizabeth Stroud
Neville Brand ... Bull Ransom
Betty Field ... Stella Johnson
Telly Savalas ... Feto Gomez
Edmond O'Brien ... Tom Gaddis
Hugh Marlowe ... Albert Comstock

Description: In 1912, the notorious and violent prisoner Robert Franklin Stroud is transferred to the Leavenworth Prison convicted for murdering a man. When a guard cancels the visit of his mother, Elizabeth Stroud, due to a violation of the internal rules, he stabs and kills the guard and goes to trial three times. He is sentenced to be executed by the gallows, but his mother appeals to President Woodrow Wilson who commutes his sentence to life imprisonment. However, the warden, Harvey Shoemaker, decides to keep Stroud in solitary for the rest of his life. One day, Stroud finds a sparrow that has fallen from the nest in the yard and he raises the bird until it is strong enough to fly. Stroud finds a motivation for his life raising and caring for birds and becomes an expert in birds. 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...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/23ssm2ir


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.58 GB, 3450 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 956x576 (5:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 148
Audio : 169 MB, 159 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR


Subtitles (English and German closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Turkish) posters and screenshots included

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