This great drama stars Burt Lancaster as convicted murderer Robert Stroud, who rescued birds, studied them, and developed medicines and wrote a book about curing their diseases. He did all his "bird work" at the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas. After his transfer to Alcatraz, he never worked with a single bird, so the title is incorrect! "Where did you get that bird, Stroud?" "I found him in the exercise yard, where he fell out of a tree." Hal