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Length: 02:54
Posted: 1/21/2010
Trailer for the 1962 film Birdman of Alcatraz.
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 w watch
Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan show they still have plenty of screen chemistry in this engaging blend of romance, comedy and courtroom thriller. Leading the fine supporting cast is Thelma Ritter, who shines as a dumb-bunny juror. watch
Debbie Reynolds stars as Lucretia Rogers, a young widow who moves with her children to a raucous Arizona town on the frontier. At first having trouble coming to grips with frontier life, she adjusts well enough to get herself appointed sheriff. She is courted by a couple of cowpokes, both of whom ride to the rescue when the young widow bites off more than she can chew and she is captured by outlaws. But which one will she choose to be her new man? This musical romance also stars Andy Griffith, Steve Forrest, Juliet Prowse and Thelma Ritter. watch
