As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. When Stroud kills a guard, he is sentenced to be executed, and only his mother's impassioned intervention gets his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, which he must serve in solitary confinement. As he serves out his sentence in boredom and despair, one day he finds a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard. Stroud soon takes a deep interest in caring for birds, which gives him a new purpose in life, but which also brings new conflicts with prison authorities.

Starring:

Adrienne Marden, Anton von Stralen, Art Salter, Betty Field, Burt Lancaster, Chris Robinson, Crahan Denton, Dale Van Sickel, David McMahon, Edmond O'Brien, Edward Mallory, Frankie Van, Fred Libby, George Mitchell, Harry Holcombe, Harry Jackson, Hugh Marlowe, James Cavanaugh, James Westerfield, Jimmy Casino, Joe McGuinn, John Burnside, John Indrisano, Ka

Genre:

Drama, Biography