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...Hope Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). An hour of music and patter, including a Hope-ful sketch called "Bird Brain of Alcatraz," with Guests Jack Benny, Ethel Merman and Bobby Darin...
...Condon in his psychopolitical thriller, the story of Raymond was notable for its metaphoric extravagance ("There she sits . . . preening the teeth of her power with the floss of my joy") and its intellectual exhibitionism ("They tittered like thlibii"). As translated into cinema by Director John Frankenheimer (Bird Man of Alcatraz), the story is notable chiefly for a systematic error it makes. It tries so hard to be different that it fails to be itself...
Bird Man of Alcatraz. Burt Lancaster gives his finest performance as a murderer, condemned to a life behind bars, who finds peace in the study of birds...
Bird Man of Alcatraz. Hurt Lancaster gives his finest performance as a murderer who in prison becomes an ornithologist...
Bird Man of Alcatraz. Burt Lancaster gives his finest performance as a murderer who in prison becomes an ornithologist...