Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.8 / 5.0

Good picture, but need to really separate facts from fiction:

Finally, after 4 decades, I got to see Birdman of Alcatraz. And a year ago I visited the island for the first time.

This is definitely a high-quality film, with a mixture of fact and artistic license. The rangers at Alcatraz still put emphasis on the dark side of Robert Stroud,and the role played by Burt Lancaster succeeds in offsetting this to a great extent.

Reviewer "silentscott" points out that the rangers have been promoting the idea that the movie says that Stroud had all his birds at Alcatraz,... more info

Another Frankenheimer winner:

"Birdman of Alcatraz" is another fine movie directed by John Frankenheimer. His next 3 movies were "The Manchurian Candidate", "Seven Days in May", and "The Train". I have seen the first 2 and gave them 5 stars, and I've got "The Train" on order. As is Frankenheimer's style, there is great depth of focus from foreground to background, but his "big head/little head" wide-angle shots are not as pronounced as in "The Manchurian Candidate" or "Seven Days In May".

Burt Lancaster earned an oscar nomination for... more info

A must-have for your dvd collection!:

Not the most accurate depiction of the "Birdman" Robert Stroud, but this is still one of the best films ever made. Burt Lancaster is incredible and Telly Savales adds a lot as well. Like Cool Hand Luke, this movie is about a prisoner that refused to give in to the system. An amazing prison drama that everyone should see.

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