"Le Prisonnier d’Alcatraz" (1962) ("Birdman of Alcatraz") de John Frankenheimer. L'un des plus beaux rôles de Burt Lancaster dans la peau de ce prisonnier qui trouve son îlot de liberté dans l'ornithologie. La métaphore est certes facile, mais son développement, l'affrontement intelligent entre le directeur et son détenu, la richesse du personnage, et la rigueur de la mise en scène en huis clos de Frankenheimer hissent le résultat très haut. Avec "Un crime dans la tête", "Sept jours en mai", "Le

Birdman of Alcatraz 1962 ORIGINAL TRAILER Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 American biographical drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Burt Lancaster. It is a largely fictionalized version of the life of Robert Stroud, who was sentenced to solitary confinement after having killed a prison guard. A federal prison inmate, he became known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" because of his studies of birds, which had taken place when he was incarcerated at Leavenworth Prison where he was allo