Burt Lancaster received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, and the film earned three other Oscar nominations. Fact vs. Fiction
The film portrays Stroud as a quiet, redeemed intellectual. Historical records and prison psychiatrists, however, often described the real Stroud as a dangerous and unrepentant sociopath with an I.Q. of 112. L'UOMO DI ALCATRAZ 1962
Burt Lancaster (Robert Stroud), Karl Malden (Warden Harvey Shoemaker), and Thelma Ritter (Elizabeth Stroud). Burt Lancaster received an Academy Award nomination for