Neville Brand

Birdman of Alcatraz -- Burt Lancaster stars as a murderer sentenced to Alcatraz, who becomes a world renowned authority on birds. The excellent supporting cast includes Thelma Ritter, Telly Savalas and Karl Malden.

A young boy and a runaway slave have adventures while travelling down the Mississippi River

Confederate soldier, Brett Sherwood (Alan Ladd), is en route to join Captain Quantrill's bandits. Along the way he rescues a man accused of a killing he had been responsible for. Things become complicated when the man's fiancée discovers the truth and Brett finds out Quantrill is not what he appears to be.

Richard Harris ("Unforgiven," "Camelot") is a small-town sheriff on a path of vengeance, searching for the outlaws who killed his wife and son. The classic Western theme of the peaceable man pushed to violence is well treated in this Lukas Heller ("The Dirty Dozen") script.

Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins headline "The Tin Star," a tough-minded, character-driven western nominated for an Oscar for its story and screenplay. Perkins plays Ben Owens, a greenhorn sheriff who hasn't worn his badge long... and won't live to wear it much longer unless he gets some savvy help. Fonda, bringing to his role the presence and plain speaking that made him an icon of the cinematic West, plays wily bounty hunter Morg Hickman. "A decent man doesn't want to kill," Morg counsels Ben. "But if you're going to shoot, shoot to kill." Morg backs up his words with action. And when the time comes, so will Ben.

The past—and the future—close in on a reformed gunslinger. Like Alan Ladd's Shane, Gregory Peck's The Gunfighter and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, The Lonely Man belongs to that saddlebag full of Westerns about a gunslinger to coming to terms with his infamous past and uncertain future. Jack Palance stars as Jacob Wade, a notorious outlaw trying to ride the trail of respectability. But where Wade goes, his reputation follows. And so does trouble. Fearful citizens are quick to turn him out of their town. Vengeful killers have vowed to stalk him to his grave. And Wade's son (Anthony Perkins), embittered over his father's long absence, cannot quell the pain and hate in his heart. Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef, Claude Akins and Elisha Cook co-star in this spare, ruggedly entertaining sagebrush saga.

Moviegoers were introduced to Elvis Presley in this film set during the dying hours of the Civil War. Elvis sings four songs, including the title song. Set in 1865, the three Confederate Reno brothers don't know the war has ended. They manage to steal a Union Army payroll, and head for home with the money. While Vance (Richard Egan) can think only of the love of his life Cathy (Debra Paget), it turns out that the brothers have been reported dead, and Cathy has married their youngest brother Clint (Elvis Presley). Vance accepts this until he learns that Cathy still loves him. To complicate things, the U.S. Army knows of the brothers' theft and is hunting them down.

Richard Widmark leads an all-star cast of leathernecks (Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone, and Jack Webb) into battle on a heavily-fortified enemy island. Their objective is a Japanese rocket sit in the island's interior, and the combat-packed story follows the squad from beachhead to battle, as they pick their way trough enemy-infested jungles. Along the way, Widmark is transformed from a former school teacher into a combat-wizened leader, and his disparate squad of men is forged into a cohesive fighting unit. Directed by two-time Academy Award winner Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front, Two Arabian Nights).

How does bitter convict Robert Stroud cope with a lifetime of solitary confinement? The answer, in a sense, comes from above in the form of a feeble sparrow he finds in the isolation yard. Stroud brings this newfound companion to his cell, nurses it to health and, from that point on, there's no turning back. Despite having only a third-grade education, and no hope of parole, Stroud becomes a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind prison walls than many in the outside world will ever know.

William Peter Blatty ("The Exorcist") writes and directs this taut, off-beat psychological thriller starring Stacy Keach ("Mike Hammer") as a straight-laced, by-the-book Marine psychiatrist who comes to help treat a group of insane ex-GIs kept imprisoned in an old castle. Keach and the off-the-wall resident physician (Ed Flanders, "St. Elsewhere") are in charge of keeping the inmates under control, but everyone soon learns that the psychiatrist may be crazier than all the inmates combined, as an intricate plot of identity and intrigue emerges. Also starring Moses Gunn ("Heartbreak Ridge"), Robert Loggia ("Big") and Alejandro Rey ("The Flying Nun"). Leonard Maltin calls this film "hilarious yet thought-provoking, with endlessly quotable dialogue." People Magazine calls it "the finest large-scale American surrealist film ever made." Nominated for three Golden Globe Awards (including Best Picture) and winner for Best Writing.

In a castle on a remote island in the Pacific, insane army soldiers are sent for treatment. Psychiatrist Col. Kane's discovers hisown need for therapy through the treatment.

In a castle on a remote island in the Pacific, insane army soldiers are sent for treatment. Psychiatrist Col. Kane's discovers hisown need for therapy through the treatment.