After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.

• DirectorJohn Frankenheimer
• Release4 July 1962
• Genre
  Drama / Crime
• Duration2h 27m
• Budget$2,650,000
• Revenue$3,100,000
• Rate
  

  7.509
  332 reviews
• Productions

  Norma Productions, United Artists