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You will see all the
man-made and natural beauties
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of the most spectacular bay in the world.
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You'll pass beneath
the famous Golden Gate Bridge,
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considered to be one of the most
striking structures ever erected by man.
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From the bay, you will thrill
to the magnificent San Francisco skyline.
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Your cruise ship, the Harbour King,
will circle Alcatraz,
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a maximum-security prison containing
the most dangerous criminals in America,
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and has been the home of such
notorious figures as Al Capone,
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Baby Face Nelson
and Machine Gun Kelly.
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That's the island of Alcatraz.
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There's a man leaving there today
after 17 years' imprisonment.
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His name is Robert Stroud.
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He's spent most of his life behind bars,
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including 43 years
in solitary confinement.
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He has never used a telephone
or driven an automobile.
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The last time he broke bread
with another human being was in 1916,
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the year Kaiser Wilhelm ordered the
sinking of the Lusitania in World War I.
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My name is Tom Gaddis.
I wrote a book about this man.
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Our story
properly begins in the year 1912.
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A cargo of rebellious prisoners
was being transferred
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from the federal penitentiary at McNeil
Island, Washington, to The Big Top,
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the name given by convicts
to the prison at Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Shut up!
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Make one more move
and I'll take you off at the neck.
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Robert F Stroud.
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Breaking that window
was a serious offence.
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It was hot. I was thinking of my lungs.
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Did you think about the consequences?
You might have started a riot.
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- Even a convict's got a right to breathe.
- Rights?
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I don't think you know
the meaning of the word.
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In 1909, in Alaska, you appointed yourself
judge, jury and executioner
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and killed one... Charles Dahmer
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because he allegedly beat up a friend
named Katie Malone... a prostitute.
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You were transferred here to Leavenworth
because of an inferior record.
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Now, I propose to give you a fresh start.
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Such rights as you will enjoy are listed
here in my rules and regulations.
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There are 86.
I suggest you memorise them.
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I know 'em. They're the same in all pens.
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They tell you when to eat,
when to sleep, when to go to the privy.
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Precisely. And what you'll do
for every minute 24 hours a day.
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You're going to be here
for nine long years, Stroud.
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So with or without your cooperation,
I intend to make a man of you,
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before you check out these gates.
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You'll conform to our ideas
of how you should behave.
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You'll learn the lesson now
or five years from now, but you'll learn.
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For breaking that train window, all your
privileges are suspended for 30 days.
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That's all, Mr Ransom.
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Let's go.
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You're one of the new fish
from McNeil, huh?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, well, I'm Tony Qualen.
Who are you?
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Stroud.
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You're lucky to be in this cellblock.
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Boss here's a friend of mine.
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Picture of your mother?
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Put it back.
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Put it back!
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What did I do?
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Just don't touch it again.
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You know the guy
you're bunking with? Anthony?
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Understand you and him
had a little misunderstanding.
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Anthony is a friend of mine.
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A very good friend.
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He didn't mean nothin',
pickin' up the picture.
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Beat it.
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What kind of nut are you anyway? Just
because he picked up a picture of Mama?
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Break it up!
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Stroud! Stroud!
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You ever mention
my mother again, I'll kill ya!
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Stroud.
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What's the matter, man?
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What's eating you up inside, Bob?
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You act as though you hate everyone.
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You live in a pus-hole,
you act accordingly.
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All right, Bob. Maybe 30 days in the hole'll
make you happy to see a face again.
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Don't count on it... Harvey.
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I don't think 30 days in the hole
is gonna cool that jaybird off, Warden.
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Now, what do you suggest, Mr Kramer?
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He's as mean as a boar hog.
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If it was me, I'd keep him away from
the rest of the inmates permanently.
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Isolation? No.
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I don't give up on a man that easily.
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Stroud comes from good stock.
He'll shape up.
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He's a dingbat, Warden.
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He's dangerous.
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He's my responsibility, Mr Kramer.
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Now, you let me worry
about his behaviour.
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Yes, sir.
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All right, Stroud.
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Dearest Mother. I am feeling fine.
Hope you are the same.
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Everything is OK at this end.
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Time sure does fly.
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Yesterday was
my fourth anniversary here,
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but I got no cake. Ha-ha.
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I guess everything would be all right
if I could just see you
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and give you a great big hug.
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I hope your cold is better.
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Your loving son, Robbie.
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Dearest Robbie.
I was here today to see you,
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but they would not let me in,
it being Saturday,
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with no visiting allowed.
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But I saw Warden Shoemaker,
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and he was kind enough
to arrange for a visit next Friday.
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Until then, my darling,
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this little gift of fruit comes
with all my love. Mother.
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Guard, guard! Mr Kramer!
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- What do you want?
- Did you know my mother was here?
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- Yeah.
- Why didn't you call me?
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You know the rules.
No visitors on Saturday.
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That all you got in you? Rules?
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Stop bellyaching. She said she'd be
here next week. You can see her then.
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You ain't got much,
but you keep subtracting from it.
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Don't you know I gotta put you
on report for touching a guard?
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Mr Kramer...
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If you shoot me on report,
I won't get no visit from my mother.
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You should have thought of that before.
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She came 2,000 miles.
All the way from Alaska.
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Do me this one favour.
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I just follow the rules.
Now get back to your seat.
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- I tell you, I got to see her.
- And I told you to get back to your seat.
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You ain't a man, Kramer. You're dog puke.
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I just came from Kramer's widow.
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I couldn't look her in the eye, Stroud.
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I feel responsible for her husband's death.
He warned me about you.
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He told me you were dangerous,
but I wouldn't listen.
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And how he's cold in his grave.
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You've taken the lives of two people
and haven't felt a twinge of conscience.
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What do you want me to do?
Cry? Say I'm sorry?
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I'm only sorry for Kramer's wife.
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- And the dead man?
- He was fixing to brain me with his club.
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I protected myself.
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No remorse, huh?
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No pity. Just an animal.
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Ain't that what these cages are for?
Animals?
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I have to make out a report
about this killing.
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I hope it'll help to hang you.
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Stroud had three trials.
The first one was declared a mistrial.
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In the second, he was sentenced
to life imprisonment.
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He appealed and was granted a third trial.
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On June 28, 1918,
he heard the final verdict.
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Therefore it is now by the court
considered, ordered and adjudged
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that you be remanded to the custody of
the warden of Leavenworth penitentiary
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and kept in solitary confinement there
until the 8th day of November, 1918,
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and then and there be hanged
by the neck until you are dead.
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No!
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This sentence is unspeakable!
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You call this justice?
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You don't even know
the meaning of the word, sir.
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Forget it. It's "Katy bar the door" for me.
I'm done.
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Sit down, Robbie.
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Sit down.
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Look, Ma, you fought,
you spent all your money,
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you got old followin' me from jail to jail.
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It's time to douse the lights.
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I told you before, Robbie,
I will not let them kill you.
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I'm going to Washington DC very soon.
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- I haven't begun to fight.
- Time's up.
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You just don't know how to quit,
do you, Ma?
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Did you think Mother was gonna
let them hurt my Robbie?
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Carrying a petition for clemency,
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Elizabeth Stroud doggedly haunted
the offices of Washington officials,
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in an effort to gain an audience
with the president of the United States.
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Finally, she managed to see
Senator Ham Lewis.
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He reminded her
of the president's grave illness.
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Grasping at straws,
she pleaded with the senator
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to make an appointment for her
with the president's wife.
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Reluctantly, he agreed.
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Tell me, Mrs Stroud, why do you think
the president should intervene?
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Mrs Wilson, the president is known
as the symbol of compassion
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throughout the whole world.
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I'm sure that deep in his heart
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he doesn't believe in the brutality
of an eye for an eye.
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I've never seen your husband,
but I've seen pictures of him.
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He has the face of a man
who has known great suffering.
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I think he'd understand what it means
to have the pack yapping at his heels.
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Mrs Wilson, they've turned on
your husband in his fight for peace.
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- They've broken his heart.
- Mrs Stroud, please.
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There's only one man left in the world
who can lend a helping hand to my son,
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and that's the president.
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Take the petition to him.
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I assure you, I give you my solemn oath,
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my son is a person of worth.
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Save him.
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Stroud! Listen!
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Hey, do you hear that, you cons?
President Wilson commuted Stroud to life!
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Well, I'll be damned. She pulled it off.
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Been expecting you, Harvey.
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I have a telegram here from Washington.
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You probably know about it.
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I've heard.
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I think you will live to regret
that this wire ever came.
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How come?
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Because you're going to spend
the rest of your life in deep-lock.
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- Who says so?
- The attorney general.
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Remember the judge's sentence?
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"And kept in solitary confinement
until you are hanged by the neck."
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But that ain't what the judge meant.
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That's what the attorney general
says he meant.
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Look around you, Stroud.
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This is going to be your home
for as long as you live.
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Ain't much more
you can do to me, is there?
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A few things.
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Consider this. You will not be permitted
to associate with the other prisoners,
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not even to exercise with them.
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You'll eat all your meals alone
for the rest of your life.
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Visiting and corresponding privileges
will be limited to your immediate family.
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And there'll be no work. Nothing to do
but count the hours and days and years.
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They're tearin' down my gallows.
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- To my great regret.
- Yeah.
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It must have galled you
to give that order, Harv.
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I think I got you figured out, Shoemaker.
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First day here you as much as asked me
to get down on my knees and whimper.
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I wouldn't do it then and I won't do it now.
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I won't lick your hand
and that's what eats you, keeper.
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You keep this in mind.
A man ain't whipped until he quits.
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And I'll never give you that pleasure.
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Now get outta here.
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I'll never forget you as long as I live.
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No matter what happens to me,
no matter where I am,
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if I ever get a chance
to punish you further, I'll do it.
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Drop in from time to time.
See how long I stick around.
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I don't have to drop in on you.
I'll always know where you are.
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Being in solitary
is like being on rails.
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A man pushes your food
through the door.
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You eat alone.
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Once a week you get a shower.
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You walk in the bullpen.
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Once a month an inmate comes
and cuts your hair.
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You read.
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You pace your cell.
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Once a week you get clean laundry.
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You pace your cell.
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The routine's always the same.
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The only way you can break it
is to go on sick call.
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You sit and listen to your heartbeat,
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and you hear your life ticking away.
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The thing that swells in your head
until you lose your mind
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is you know absolutely for sure
what's coming next.
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Here's that Argosy magazine
you wanted, Shorty.
240
00:25:53,136 --> 00:25:55,175
Thanks, Bull.
241
00:26:07,692 --> 00:26:10,361
Do you want anything to read, Stroud?
242
00:26:12,155 --> 00:26:15,239
I want something from you, I'll ask for it.
243
00:27:43,206 --> 00:27:46,077
Stroud! Get in outta the rain, you nut!
244
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,017
You're all gut, you little runt.
245
00:32:04,223 --> 00:32:07,426
Hey, Stroud, what ya doin'
up there on the ceiling?
246
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,644
- Collecting beetles and cockroaches.
- I see.
247
00:32:14,067 --> 00:32:16,107
Beetles and cockroaches.
248
00:32:17,195 --> 00:32:19,651
Poor old Stroud. He's goin' bugs.
249
00:32:39,676 --> 00:32:42,132
Gettin' pretty big now, huh?
250
00:32:45,807 --> 00:32:48,263
About time for you to fly.
251
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,935
OK, kid, hop to it.
252
00:32:56,193 --> 00:32:58,649
Well, go ahead, fly.
253
00:33:00,073 --> 00:33:02,742
Well, come on, Runty, fly.
254
00:33:11,125 --> 00:33:13,996
What's the matter?
A little chicken-hearted?
255
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,645
All right, come on, you little punk. Fly!
256
00:33:39,612 --> 00:33:44,952
What are you gonna do when it's time to
go south for the winter? Walk to Mexico?
257
00:33:46,370 --> 00:33:47,370
Hm.
258
00:33:49,790 --> 00:33:53,491
All right, kid. Now give it a try.
Come on. Come on.
259
00:33:56,297 --> 00:33:58,752
Come on, Runt. Come on, fly.
260
00:33:59,758 --> 00:34:01,798
Here. Come on.
261
00:34:02,553 --> 00:34:04,592
Come here. Come on.
262
00:34:04,722 --> 00:34:06,322
Come on!
263
00:34:15,858 --> 00:34:19,902
- What's the matter with you, anyway?
- He'll never get off the ground.
264
00:34:20,029 --> 00:34:22,899
That bird's yellow to the core.
265
00:34:35,045 --> 00:34:37,500
You gonna be a quitter? Hm?
266
00:34:38,256 --> 00:34:42,384
Now you fly, you little punk, or I'll throw
you out on your ear, you hear me?
267
00:34:50,894 --> 00:34:51,894
Fly!
268
00:34:57,442 --> 00:34:58,442
Fly!
269
00:35:19,215 --> 00:35:21,254
Yellow, huh?
270
00:35:40,277 --> 00:35:41,277
Cold?
271
00:35:51,872 --> 00:35:55,077
About six months
after Stroud picked up the sparrow,
272
00:35:55,210 --> 00:35:57,701
the biggest piece of news
a penitentiary can get
273
00:35:57,838 --> 00:36:00,589
went through Leavenworth
like a forest fire.
274
00:36:00,716 --> 00:36:03,385
A new warden had been appointed.
275
00:36:03,510 --> 00:36:04,510
West.
276
00:36:05,971 --> 00:36:07,371
Rather.
277
00:36:08,724 --> 00:36:10,763
Sacourivitch.
278
00:36:11,476 --> 00:36:13,476
Hollister.
279
00:36:13,812 --> 00:36:15,212
Stroud.
280
00:36:15,397 --> 00:36:18,066
Warden, can I have a minute of your time?
281
00:36:19,234 --> 00:36:21,274
I mean you, Warden Younger.
282
00:36:22,487 --> 00:36:24,943
I'd like you to watch something.
283
00:36:27,284 --> 00:36:29,284
OK, Runty.
284
00:36:42,550 --> 00:36:44,550
That's it.
285
00:37:03,946 --> 00:37:06,402
Come on, come on. Open it, open it.
286
00:37:06,532 --> 00:37:08,110
Open it.
287
00:37:08,242 --> 00:37:10,282
Open up. Go ahead.
288
00:37:12,830 --> 00:37:14,430
Open it.
289
00:37:15,083 --> 00:37:16,660
Go ahead. That's it.
290
00:37:16,793 --> 00:37:18,793
That's it.
291
00:37:20,254 --> 00:37:22,793
I've never seen anything
like that in my life.
292
00:37:22,925 --> 00:37:25,214
Where did you get that bird?
293
00:37:25,344 --> 00:37:28,013
Found him in the exercise yard, sir.
294
00:37:29,556 --> 00:37:32,012
Just put your finger on his feet.
295
00:37:36,772 --> 00:37:40,106
- What kind of a bird is that?
- A sparrow.
296
00:37:40,234 --> 00:37:44,232
It must have taken great patience
to train him. I admire that.
297
00:37:44,363 --> 00:37:47,364
Then I can keep him, sir?
298
00:37:47,491 --> 00:37:50,611
I don't see why not. Do you?
299
00:37:50,744 --> 00:37:53,200
You're the warden now, Jess.
It's up to you.
300
00:37:53,330 --> 00:37:56,284
I think it'll be permitted.
Don't take advantage, Stroud.
301
00:37:56,417 --> 00:37:58,872
I wouldn't think of it, sir.
302
00:37:59,837 --> 00:38:02,292
- There is one thing.
- Yes?
303
00:38:02,423 --> 00:38:04,499
- I need some birdseed.
- Birdseed?
304
00:38:04,633 --> 00:38:05,633
Yes.
305
00:38:07,345 --> 00:38:09,634
I doubt if we've got any in the warehouse.
306
00:38:09,764 --> 00:38:13,133
I took the liberty of ordering some.
It's at the post office.
307
00:38:13,268 --> 00:38:16,767
I need your permission
to have it released.
308
00:38:19,065 --> 00:38:21,735
I like your nerve. You'll get your order.
309
00:38:21,860 --> 00:38:23,140
Thank you.
310
00:38:23,278 --> 00:38:25,733
Trained sparrows in solitary!
311
00:38:31,077 --> 00:38:33,403
Pretty cute act you put on there.
312
00:38:33,538 --> 00:38:35,578
Just amusing myself.
313
00:38:38,418 --> 00:38:41,372
Still ignoring prison regulations,
aren't you?
314
00:38:41,504 --> 00:38:45,372
I hear you're going to Washington to plan
a new Federal Bureau of Prisons.
315
00:38:45,508 --> 00:38:47,418
Yes, I am.
316
00:38:47,552 --> 00:38:50,222
Every pen run by the book, huh?
317
00:38:50,348 --> 00:38:53,218
If you mean uniformity, you're right.
318
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,939
- Drop me a postcard, Harv.
- I plan to keep in touch.
319
00:39:12,870 --> 00:39:15,443
- You did middlin', Runty. Middlin'.
- Middling?
320
00:39:15,581 --> 00:39:19,958
He just saved your carcass, that's all.
Got the heart of an eagle.
321
00:39:32,723 --> 00:39:37,137
When Younger allowed Stroud to keep
the sparrow, he opened the barn door.
322
00:39:37,270 --> 00:39:39,808
Other inmates had relatives
send them canaries,
323
00:39:39,940 --> 00:39:42,810
and the solitary block rang with song.
324
00:40:06,967 --> 00:40:12,554
Then one prisoner became bored with his
two canaries, and gave them to Stroud.
325
00:40:13,598 --> 00:40:17,929
That was a day penal authorities
will never forget.
326
00:40:55,308 --> 00:40:57,550
What are you gawking at?
327
00:40:57,685 --> 00:40:59,927
Looking at that bottle.
328
00:41:07,946 --> 00:41:09,986
- Are you thirsty?
- Yeah.
329
00:41:33,555 --> 00:41:35,963
- I want the bottle.
- What for?
330
00:41:36,100 --> 00:41:38,555
I got a use for it.
331
00:41:42,815 --> 00:41:44,558
What use?
332
00:41:44,692 --> 00:41:48,821
I ain't gonna cut my throat,
if that's what's worryin' you.
333
00:41:50,281 --> 00:41:53,781
- What about the refund?
- So I'll owe you a penny!
334
00:41:54,786 --> 00:41:56,826
How about it?
335
00:42:06,923 --> 00:42:08,963
Well, you're welcome.
336
00:42:13,722 --> 00:42:14,920
Son of a...
337
00:43:23,877 --> 00:43:27,709
- Well, now what do you want?
- That box you're sittin' on.
338
00:43:31,301 --> 00:43:34,587
- That's tough.
- It's just an apple box.
339
00:43:34,721 --> 00:43:37,177
- You could get another.
- I could.
340
00:43:37,974 --> 00:43:40,014
- Well?
- But I ain't.
341
00:43:41,478 --> 00:43:43,934
- Why not?
- I ain't so inclined.
342
00:43:47,776 --> 00:43:50,860
All right, I'll buy it off you.
What do you want?
343
00:43:50,988 --> 00:43:53,858
One pack of cigarettes? Two? Name it.
344
00:43:56,785 --> 00:44:00,831
If you showed me a hundred-dollar bill,
you couldn't have this box.
345
00:44:00,957 --> 00:44:03,792
What the hell is eatin' you?
346
00:44:06,671 --> 00:44:09,209
12 years I've known you, Stroud.
347
00:44:09,340 --> 00:44:13,172
12 years, sun up and sun down, I've had
to look at that frozen mug of yours.
348
00:44:13,302 --> 00:44:16,553
And in all that time, never so much
as a how-de-do out of you.
349
00:44:16,681 --> 00:44:19,598
I try to treat you decent,
cos you got no bed of roses.
350
00:44:19,726 --> 00:44:22,643
So I put my head on the block
and I dummy up about the birds.
351
00:44:22,770 --> 00:44:26,353
Did you say thanks, my boy?
Did just once you say thanks?
352
00:44:26,482 --> 00:44:29,567
Or maybe I just didn't hear you.
You're a soft speaker.
353
00:44:29,694 --> 00:44:32,185
You want a pop bottle.
You want a pop bottle.
354
00:44:32,322 --> 00:44:35,192
Do I hear maybe
the word "please" someplace?
355
00:44:35,325 --> 00:44:37,151
Or could I be goin' deaf?
356
00:44:37,285 --> 00:44:40,654
"Hand over the box" says you,
357
00:44:40,788 --> 00:44:43,576
like you was the tsar of Russia
or somebody.
358
00:44:43,709 --> 00:44:48,834
You get this. I may be just a uniform
to you, but you got no patent on feelings.
359
00:44:48,964 --> 00:44:52,167
I'm a man, the same as you,
and I wanna be treated like one.
360
00:44:52,301 --> 00:44:55,218
So you'd better come up
with a few manners with me,
361
00:44:55,346 --> 00:44:59,046
or don't even expect the time of day
from yours truly!
362
00:45:24,875 --> 00:45:26,875
Mr Ransom.
363
00:45:41,935 --> 00:45:46,478
- You know what I think, Bull?
- I don't give a damn what you think.
364
00:45:48,775 --> 00:45:51,895
I think you're absolutely right.
365
00:45:52,028 --> 00:45:55,113
I admire ya for sounding off like that.
366
00:46:01,079 --> 00:46:03,118
I had it comin'.
367
00:46:04,457 --> 00:46:07,957
You always treated me square.
You been good to me.
368
00:46:10,923 --> 00:46:13,379
So there's something I wanna do.
369
00:46:16,804 --> 00:46:19,342
I wanna apologise to you.
370
00:46:26,564 --> 00:46:29,648
I ain't apologised to anybody in 20 years.
371
00:47:58,157 --> 00:48:01,111
- Hey, Stroud.
- Yeah?
372
00:48:01,703 --> 00:48:03,826
My bird won't sing.
373
00:48:03,955 --> 00:48:05,994
Is he sick?
374
00:48:06,124 --> 00:48:08,163
I'll check him.
375
00:48:10,211 --> 00:48:12,667
You sick, little baby canary Jack?
376
00:48:14,298 --> 00:48:16,338
Say "tweety-dee", sweetheart.
377
00:48:17,969 --> 00:48:20,008
Tweet tweet tweet tweet.
378
00:48:21,639 --> 00:48:23,467
I don't know.
379
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:28,097
You been giving him special feedings
of grasshoppers and bugs like I told you?
380
00:48:28,230 --> 00:48:30,270
I can't find any!
381
00:48:31,525 --> 00:48:34,692
By the time I get to the bullpen,
you cleaned it out!
382
00:48:35,821 --> 00:48:38,490
What do you want me to do?
383
00:48:39,366 --> 00:48:43,031
You got a way with birds.
You take Jack for a while, huh?
384
00:48:43,162 --> 00:48:45,201
What about birdseed?
385
00:48:46,540 --> 00:48:49,458
All right, I'll split mine with you.
386
00:48:49,585 --> 00:48:53,084
- What do you say?
- All right. Send him in.
387
00:49:02,014 --> 00:49:05,064
Only for about a year or so
and then I want him back.
388
00:49:05,365 --> 00:49:06,517
OK.
389
00:49:18,782 --> 00:49:22,281
You be careful, take it easy
and don't mash him.
390
00:49:28,958 --> 00:49:32,043
You don't care of him, I'll bust you apart.
391
00:49:33,171 --> 00:49:35,377
- Don't worry, Feto.
- Come on, Gomez.
392
00:49:35,507 --> 00:49:37,962
It's your exercise period.
393
00:49:58,406 --> 00:50:01,276
Well, how about it, Stroud? Is he sick?
394
00:50:02,827 --> 00:50:05,697
- I don't think so.
- Why don't he sing?
395
00:50:09,417 --> 00:50:12,287
- It wouldn't be polite.
- Don't be smart!
396
00:50:14,714 --> 00:50:18,414
Feto, don't you know
a lady canary never sings?
397
00:50:19,135 --> 00:50:21,174
Lady canary?
398
00:50:22,263 --> 00:50:26,177
- You mean Jack's a broad canary?
- Yep. A hen.
399
00:50:30,896 --> 00:50:33,518
Well, tough luck, Bob.
400
00:50:33,649 --> 00:50:36,521
You're stuck with a bird that don't sing.
401
00:50:37,321 --> 00:50:39,360
Use up a lot of birdseed, huh?
402
00:50:43,535 --> 00:50:47,367
Working with a razor blade
and a jagged piece of glass,
403
00:50:47,497 --> 00:50:50,582
Stroud cut 128 slats,
404
00:50:50,709 --> 00:50:56,747
in addition to roof boards,
tier bars, gate pieces and a handle.
405
00:50:56,882 --> 00:51:01,010
Every joint was charred for hardness
and hand-fitted,
406
00:51:01,136 --> 00:51:03,176
since he had no glue.
407
00:51:04,348 --> 00:51:07,633
The birdcage took
seven months to complete.
408
00:51:11,605 --> 00:51:14,559
Bob, that's a hell of a job you did there.
409
00:51:14,691 --> 00:51:17,147
It's all right. Not bad.
410
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:21,073
- Next one'll be better.
- The next one?
411
00:51:21,199 --> 00:51:23,654
What do you want another one for?
412
00:51:25,953 --> 00:51:29,038
Ain't you got eyes? Mr and Mrs.
413
00:51:32,043 --> 00:51:34,534
There's gonna be
some procreation around here.
414
00:51:34,671 --> 00:51:37,755
- Procre... what?
- New life. Birth.
415
00:51:39,258 --> 00:51:41,298
- In a prison?
- Yep.
416
00:51:41,969 --> 00:51:44,507
Well, I guess they won't mind.
417
00:51:44,639 --> 00:51:47,723
Canaries are always behind bars anyway.
418
00:52:06,620 --> 00:52:09,325
It's springtime outside, slugger.
419
00:52:12,001 --> 00:52:14,456
You best go find out who you are.
420
00:52:19,383 --> 00:52:20,983
Come on.
421
00:52:23,595 --> 00:52:27,296
Now what's wrong with you,
you old buzzard? Come on.
422
00:52:33,188 --> 00:52:35,644
Don't be afraid.
423
00:52:38,902 --> 00:52:41,607
Out there you can kick up the dust.
424
00:52:41,739 --> 00:52:44,230
You can dance to fiddle music.
425
00:52:44,366 --> 00:52:46,406
Watch the alfalfa bloom.
426
00:52:50,123 --> 00:52:53,207
If you like, you can... see gold teeth.
427
00:52:54,294 --> 00:52:57,164
Taste sweet whisky and red-eyed gravy.
428
00:52:58,214 --> 00:53:01,714
The air breathes easy, nights move faster,
429
00:53:03,678 --> 00:53:06,134
and you tell time by the clock.
430
00:53:06,765 --> 00:53:09,682
Now you don't wanna be a jailbird
all your life, do ya?
431
00:53:09,809 --> 00:53:12,051
You're a highballin' sparrow.
432
00:53:12,187 --> 00:53:14,974
So you fly high, old cock.
433
00:53:15,106 --> 00:53:18,558
Go out there and bite the stars - for me.
434
00:53:18,693 --> 00:53:21,480
Find yourself a fat mama
and make a family.
435
00:53:21,613 --> 00:53:23,413
You hear?
436
00:53:39,340 --> 00:53:40,940
Beat it.
437
00:54:01,946 --> 00:54:03,985
Hey, Stroud.
438
00:54:04,115 --> 00:54:06,154
Yeah, Feto?
439
00:54:07,034 --> 00:54:10,320
- My bird laid an egg, huh?
- My bird laid an egg.
440
00:54:11,247 --> 00:54:13,785
Why, you stinkin' crook!
441
00:54:13,916 --> 00:54:16,159
I only loaned you my canary!
442
00:54:16,294 --> 00:54:18,334
For a year.
443
00:54:19,631 --> 00:54:22,087
I want half them eggs.
444
00:54:25,637 --> 00:54:28,093
What for? You gonna make an omelette?
445
00:54:28,223 --> 00:54:33,383
Any con who'd steal canary eggs
from another con is a dirty fink!
446
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,520
And a rat!
447
00:54:41,153 --> 00:54:43,691
How many, Stroud?
448
00:54:43,822 --> 00:54:44,822
Two?
449
00:54:49,661 --> 00:54:52,069
How many, Stroud?
450
00:54:52,205 --> 00:54:55,705
Three? Dirty crook.
451
00:54:57,961 --> 00:54:59,761
How many?
452
00:55:02,091 --> 00:55:03,091
Four.
453
00:55:04,093 --> 00:55:05,893
How many?
454
00:55:21,736 --> 00:55:25,021
Hey, Stroud. Anything happen yet?
455
00:55:28,159 --> 00:55:32,287
Now it's been 20 days and 18 hours.
What's goin' on in there?
456
00:55:50,432 --> 00:55:54,133
- Hey, Bob, what's that noise in there?
- Quiet, Feto.
457
00:58:02,943 --> 00:58:05,398
Feto, you're a godfather.
458
00:58:57,623 --> 00:59:01,538
Sealed off from the world,
denied the fundamental drive of man
459
00:59:01,669 --> 00:59:04,207
to beget his own kind,
460
00:59:04,339 --> 00:59:08,632
Stroud developed a world
in microcosm with his birds.
461
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:13,220
And because it was safe, and he knew
they would never turn on him,
462
00:59:13,348 --> 00:59:16,763
he developed a deep but private
love for his canaries,
463
00:59:16,893 --> 00:59:21,021
as he watched the cycle of love
and mating and issuing forth.
464
00:59:23,191 --> 00:59:27,937
Then, one spring day,
an old friend came back.
465
00:59:43,379 --> 00:59:46,878
Runty! What the hell
are you doin' back here?
466
00:59:50,260 --> 00:59:55,006
Too tough out there, huh?
Come back for a little prison security.
467
01:00:02,272 --> 01:00:05,143
I guess you're a lifer, pal, just like me.
468
01:00:43,732 --> 01:00:47,231
Hey, Stroud. How come
the birds ain't singin'?
469
01:00:48,653 --> 01:00:51,524
Because they're sick, and so's mine.
470
01:00:52,992 --> 01:00:55,198
Hey, Stroud.
471
01:00:55,327 --> 01:00:57,367
My bird's gonna kick off?
472
01:01:02,043 --> 01:01:06,954
"Dreaded among breeders is a highly
contagious disease called septic fever."
473
01:01:07,089 --> 01:01:09,627
"It's actual existence can only be surmised
474
01:01:09,759 --> 01:01:12,795
by a postmortem by
a veterinary surgeon trained in..."
475
01:01:12,928 --> 01:01:15,087
- Bob!
- Pipe down, Gomez.
476
01:01:15,222 --> 01:01:17,630
"Death may be rapid or delayed."
477
01:01:17,767 --> 01:01:21,551
"Faeces are abnormal
and always pale yellow in colour."
478
01:01:21,687 --> 01:01:24,143
"There's no practical remedy."
479
01:01:44,086 --> 01:01:45,486
Stroud?
480
01:01:46,588 --> 01:01:50,420
I found Bacillus pasteurella
in great quantity.
481
01:01:50,550 --> 01:01:55,378
I'd make an educated guess
that there's a filterable virus.
482
01:01:55,514 --> 01:01:57,921
That it is septic fever?
483
01:01:58,058 --> 01:01:59,858
Possibly.
484
01:02:00,060 --> 01:02:02,895
Are there any chemicals
or medicines or anything?
485
01:02:03,021 --> 01:02:07,233
I couldn't find any literature on
the disease. Apparently there isn't any.
486
01:02:07,359 --> 01:02:12,400
So, without any specific drug, I'm afraid
there isn't much I can do to help.
487
01:02:12,531 --> 01:02:15,532
Thanks, Doc. I appreciate what you done.
488
01:02:15,659 --> 01:02:16,859
Sorry.
489
01:02:45,231 --> 01:02:47,271
Any change?
490
01:03:02,248 --> 01:03:03,448
Runty.
491
01:03:06,378 --> 01:03:07,578
Shame.
492
01:03:13,761 --> 01:03:18,921
He wasn't much of a bird. I threw him out,
but I guess it was too tough for him.
493
01:03:19,058 --> 01:03:22,343
He had to come back
where he could freeload.
494
01:03:23,771 --> 01:03:26,226
He was a born panhandler.
495
01:03:29,151 --> 01:03:32,235
Tried to get rid of him
as late as last Friday.
496
01:03:32,363 --> 01:03:36,491
I warned him, but he wouldn't
listen to me. He was too smart.
497
01:03:38,535 --> 01:03:42,035
He'd rather have the walls
than somebody to talk to.
498
01:03:45,959 --> 01:03:48,415
He didn't amount to much.
499
01:04:17,701 --> 01:04:19,501
Hey, Bob.
500
01:04:21,871 --> 01:04:26,368
You know Ape?
The baby bird you slipped me.
501
01:04:29,379 --> 01:04:33,080
Well, in case you're interested,
he just knocked off.
502
01:04:38,389 --> 01:04:39,389
Punk.
503
01:04:42,601 --> 01:04:45,472
He dropped like he got shot in the head.
504
01:04:48,274 --> 01:04:52,402
Reminded me of an old girlfriend
of mine named Peggy... Beeman.
505
01:04:53,612 --> 01:04:56,282
What a face. Like a pan full of worms.
506
01:04:57,825 --> 01:05:01,111
But stacked. Like to make
your tongue hang out.
507
01:05:02,079 --> 01:05:04,487
Good-hearted broad, you know.
508
01:05:04,623 --> 01:05:07,293
She used to put out to me.
509
01:05:07,418 --> 01:05:10,419
And every other guy
in the neighbourhood.
510
01:05:10,546 --> 01:05:12,586
A bum, in other words.
511
01:05:13,966 --> 01:05:17,253
Well, she had a bird too. A parrot.
512
01:05:18,263 --> 01:05:20,719
And he too was ugly also.
513
01:05:23,894 --> 01:05:28,354
And one time I came up to her room,
and the door was open,
514
01:05:29,441 --> 01:05:33,652
and she was tryin' to teach
the parrot to say somethin'.
515
01:05:33,779 --> 01:05:38,654
You'll get a boot outta this, Bob.
You know what she wanted him to say?
516
01:05:38,784 --> 01:05:40,823
"I love you, Peggy."
517
01:05:41,620 --> 01:05:45,700
Over and over, you know,
she kept at him. "I love you, Peggy."
518
01:05:45,832 --> 01:05:48,406
Oh, them two uglies.
519
01:05:48,543 --> 01:05:53,501
I figured she was some kinda nut, so
I never seen her no more after that time.
520
01:05:54,841 --> 01:05:56,881
Good old Peg.
521
01:05:59,137 --> 01:06:03,218
So what happens?
So I wind up in the can,
522
01:06:03,351 --> 01:06:06,435
and I'm talking to the birds
just like she did.
523
01:06:09,107 --> 01:06:13,151
You know... I gotta admit it,
524
01:06:17,740 --> 01:06:20,825
for the first time since I been in stir,
525
01:06:22,745 --> 01:06:25,830
them baby canaries,
they make me feel good.
526
01:06:34,007 --> 01:06:38,135
You know, it ain't just right
to flush Apey down the toilet bowl.
527
01:06:39,303 --> 01:06:42,803
Hey, Stroud, what am I
supposed to do with him, huh?
528
01:06:54,570 --> 01:06:56,609
What am I gonna do?
529
01:06:58,866 --> 01:07:00,666
Hey, Bob?
530
01:07:09,668 --> 01:07:13,333
Stroud struck back
at the oldest enemy of all.
531
01:07:13,464 --> 01:07:18,671
Wash the cages, sterilise
the cell from top to bottom,
532
01:07:18,802 --> 01:07:22,302
read everything in
the prison library about birds.
533
01:07:22,931 --> 01:07:28,092
He learned of oxidisers, which had been
used as a poultry germicide for years.
534
01:07:28,896 --> 01:07:33,226
He wrote to his mother, asking
for these drugs, plus equipment.
535
01:07:34,277 --> 01:07:37,895
While waiting, he tried
fantastic concoctions on his birds,
536
01:07:38,031 --> 01:07:41,945
like a sulphur solution
made from the heads of matches.
537
01:07:52,128 --> 01:07:55,213
The birds died with increasing swiftness.
538
01:07:56,674 --> 01:08:00,340
The package of drugs and
equipment came from Mother.
539
01:08:00,470 --> 01:08:04,717
With little or no knowledge of the amount
of chemicals a canary could tolerate,
540
01:08:04,849 --> 01:08:09,392
Stroud proceeded to administer
the oxidisers to his sick birds.
541
01:08:21,784 --> 01:08:25,616
Clearly, this drug was
no cure for septic fever,
542
01:08:25,746 --> 01:08:29,661
but Stroud persisted,
trying different combinations.
543
01:08:33,963 --> 01:08:36,086
The birds still died.
544
01:08:36,215 --> 01:08:38,587
However, Stroud made one discovery..
545
01:08:38,718 --> 01:08:42,632
Before death, their temperature
dropped to normal.
546
01:08:42,763 --> 01:08:46,713
He concluded the chemicals
were too harsh, too caustic.
547
01:08:46,851 --> 01:08:50,551
He decided to buffer them
with effervescent sodas.
548
01:08:50,688 --> 01:08:52,727
The birds died.
549
01:08:55,026 --> 01:08:58,312
Hey, Stroud! When you gonna
find a medicine for my birds?
550
01:08:58,447 --> 01:09:00,605
They're droppin' like flies!
551
01:09:00,741 --> 01:09:03,825
- We'll just have to wait.
- Wait?
552
01:09:03,952 --> 01:09:06,408
I'm gonna kill 'em all!
553
01:09:15,380 --> 01:09:18,381
Finally, there was only
one more buffering agent left
554
01:09:18,508 --> 01:09:22,209
in his tiny arsenal of drugs..
Citrocarbonate.
555
01:09:25,891 --> 01:09:28,761
He combined this
with potassium chlorate.
556
01:09:34,441 --> 01:09:39,399
He dosed his birds. After that,
all he could do was hope.
557
01:09:42,992 --> 01:09:45,661
- Three o'clock, Bob.
- Thanks, Johnson.
558
01:10:55,983 --> 01:10:57,783
Hey, Bob?
559
01:10:59,278 --> 01:11:01,947
What happened? Why is that bird singin'?
560
01:11:05,492 --> 01:11:07,568
You find a medicine?
561
01:11:11,249 --> 01:11:14,120
Go to it, kid. Sing your heart out.
562
01:11:40,028 --> 01:11:43,942
The years passed,
and news of Stroud's medicine spread
563
01:11:44,074 --> 01:11:46,280
to the gentle world of bird owners.
564
01:11:48,370 --> 01:11:52,699
People began to wonder who
this strange new bird doctor was.
565
01:11:56,796 --> 01:11:59,666
Finally, someone got curious.
566
01:12:06,806 --> 01:12:11,633
Bob, did you enter some kind of a contest
in one of those canary magazines?
567
01:12:11,769 --> 01:12:14,058
Yeah. I won second prize - a roller canary.
568
01:12:14,188 --> 01:12:18,233
Well, you'd better go pick it up.
It's in the deputy's office.
569
01:12:18,359 --> 01:12:19,359
Good.
570
01:12:25,366 --> 01:12:27,405
- What's up?
- Not a thing.
571
01:12:43,468 --> 01:12:45,508
You must be Mr Stroud.
572
01:12:49,433 --> 01:12:52,718
Here you are. Your second prize.
573
01:12:54,271 --> 01:12:57,141
A night roller of St Andreasburg stock.
574
01:13:04,823 --> 01:13:07,694
I'm Mrs Stella Johnson. I offered the prize.
575
01:13:08,702 --> 01:13:12,201
- Who let you in?
- The warden. It took three days.
576
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:17,669
Well, I suppose you wonder why I'm here.
577
01:13:19,588 --> 01:13:24,334
Well, I kept reading your articles
and letters to the journal.
578
01:13:25,261 --> 01:13:28,677
Then I tried your cure of oxidising agents
579
01:13:28,806 --> 01:13:32,934
on one of my birds with septic fever,
and, by golly, it worked.
580
01:13:34,354 --> 01:13:38,434
So I began to wonder
who this new bird doctor was.
581
01:13:38,566 --> 01:13:44,770
And when you won the prize I put up,
my curiosity really got the best of me.
582
01:13:45,990 --> 01:13:51,151
So I just had to find out who
Box 7, Leavenworth, Kansas was.
583
01:13:52,413 --> 01:13:58,037
So I... I wrote to the postmaster
at Leavenworth and asked him,
584
01:13:58,169 --> 01:14:02,214
and he told me it was
the federal penitentiary.
585
01:14:02,340 --> 01:14:04,795
Why did you come to see me?
586
01:14:04,926 --> 01:14:09,055
Well, you see,
I live in Shelbyville, Indiana.
587
01:14:09,181 --> 01:14:13,677
And I was visiting a cousin in St Louis,
and Leavenworth isn't far...
588
01:14:13,811 --> 01:14:17,808
You were visiting in St Louis
and you carried him all the way with you?
589
01:14:19,566 --> 01:14:21,606
Well, the way it was...
590
01:14:23,153 --> 01:14:25,193
I was going...
591
01:14:26,115 --> 01:14:27,988
I thought...
592
01:14:28,325 --> 01:14:29,325
Yes?
593
01:14:32,830 --> 01:14:36,958
Mr Stroud, I'm terribly sorry
for taking so much of your time.
594
01:14:39,169 --> 01:14:41,209
Good luck with the roller.
595
01:14:42,005 --> 01:14:43,832
Mrs Johnson.
596
01:14:46,051 --> 01:14:48,838
Thank you for bringing him.
597
01:14:48,971 --> 01:14:52,056
Well, actually, you know, I...
598
01:14:52,183 --> 01:14:55,268
I did have an idea when I came here.
599
01:14:56,855 --> 01:14:57,855
Idea?
600
01:14:57,981 --> 01:15:01,848
Have you ever thought
of selling your bird remedies?
601
01:15:05,071 --> 01:15:06,871
Go ahead.
602
01:15:08,283 --> 01:15:09,683
Well...
603
01:15:10,285 --> 01:15:14,863
I have a little money. Not much. But
I believe it would be a good investment.
604
01:15:14,998 --> 01:15:18,616
You make 'em and I sell 'em.
I've even thought of a name.
605
01:15:18,752 --> 01:15:20,625
Stroud's Specifics.
606
01:15:22,255 --> 01:15:24,295
Well, I'll be darned.
607
01:15:26,259 --> 01:15:29,426
You said your name
was Mrs Stella Johnson.
608
01:15:29,554 --> 01:15:31,594
- I'm a widow woman.
- I see.
609
01:15:32,682 --> 01:15:35,305
My husband passed away
eight years ago.
610
01:15:35,436 --> 01:15:37,436
I'm sorry.
611
01:15:37,772 --> 01:15:41,604
Truth is, about all
I've got in life is my birds.
612
01:15:47,490 --> 01:15:50,941
What do you know about me,
Mrs Johnson?
613
01:15:51,077 --> 01:15:52,903
That you killed two men.
614
01:15:55,206 --> 01:15:58,290
- Any questions?
- No.
615
01:16:06,300 --> 01:16:08,756
Stroud's Specifics. Well.
616
01:16:10,471 --> 01:16:13,757
- You hear a roll of the drums just then?
- Drums?
617
01:16:13,891 --> 01:16:16,512
- There was even a trombone there.
- Meaning what?
618
01:16:16,644 --> 01:16:19,314
The formation of our new company.
619
01:16:20,107 --> 01:16:22,858
You mean you made up
your mind just like that?
620
01:16:22,984 --> 01:16:26,270
One thing I've learned
is not to abuse time.
621
01:16:27,489 --> 01:16:32,780
I suggest we split everything right down
the middle, if that's all right with you.
622
01:16:32,911 --> 01:16:35,865
I never thought a business
could be set up this fast.
623
01:16:35,997 --> 01:16:39,283
- You can change your mind if you want.
- Not me.
624
01:16:41,712 --> 01:16:44,416
Yes, I guess so.
625
01:16:44,548 --> 01:16:45,793
I beg your pardon?
626
01:16:45,924 --> 01:16:49,542
I was just saying goodbye
to Shelbyville, Indiana.
627
01:16:49,678 --> 01:16:52,251
I'll be moving to Leavenworth.
628
01:16:52,389 --> 01:16:54,796
I've got to be near my factory.
629
01:16:57,227 --> 01:16:59,896
This is a big day for me, Mrs Johnson.
630
01:17:00,981 --> 01:17:03,817
I have a feeling you've brought me luck.
631
01:17:03,943 --> 01:17:06,399
- I hope so.
- Time's up.
632
01:17:08,156 --> 01:17:11,026
Before you go, would you do me a favour?
633
01:17:12,952 --> 01:17:15,408
Of course. What is it?
634
01:17:15,538 --> 01:17:21,576
Would it be too personal to...
to let me look through your purse?
635
01:17:24,630 --> 01:17:26,430
Go ahead.
636
01:17:40,146 --> 01:17:41,946
Lipstick?
637
01:17:57,247 --> 01:18:00,332
- Cigarette case?
- Powder compact.
638
01:18:02,419 --> 01:18:04,019
Oh, yes.
639
01:18:08,175 --> 01:18:11,461
What were you looking for?
640
01:18:11,595 --> 01:18:13,303
A hacksaw.
641
01:18:16,308 --> 01:18:20,637
Write me when you get ready to move.
I'll have my mother find a place for you.
642
01:18:20,771 --> 01:18:23,143
All right. Goodbye.
643
01:18:23,273 --> 01:18:25,313
So long, partner.
644
01:18:51,302 --> 01:18:54,256
Hey, Bob, get a load of this.
645
01:19:02,564 --> 01:19:05,233
Hey, you hear that, Bob?
What's that word?
646
01:19:06,943 --> 01:19:08,485
Congress.
647
01:19:08,611 --> 01:19:11,102
The prison grapevine
hammered out the news
648
01:19:11,239 --> 01:19:15,949
that a Federal Bureau of Prisons
had been created by an act of Congress.
649
01:19:16,078 --> 01:19:18,118
Director... AJ MacLeod.
650
01:19:19,832 --> 01:19:24,043
The new warden who came to
Leavenworth was Albert Comstock.
651
01:19:24,170 --> 01:19:28,298
One of the first prisoners
he asked to see was Robert Stroud.
652
01:19:30,926 --> 01:19:33,168
- Sit down, please.
- Thank you.
653
01:19:37,850 --> 01:19:42,311
You've heard about the formation
of the new Bureau of Prisons, of course.
654
01:19:42,438 --> 01:19:47,515
I have several directives from Washington
that will affect you personally.
655
01:19:47,651 --> 01:19:50,403
I wanted to read them to you myself.
656
01:19:50,529 --> 01:19:52,569
Go ahead, Warden.
657
01:19:54,700 --> 01:19:57,487
The first one states
that no pets of any kind
658
01:19:57,620 --> 01:20:00,538
will be allowed
in federal penitentiaries.
659
01:20:00,665 --> 01:20:06,371
The second directive forbids any inmate
to engage in any commercial enterprise.
660
01:20:06,505 --> 01:20:08,746
Do you know what that means?
661
01:20:08,882 --> 01:20:11,171
That means my birds.
662
01:20:11,301 --> 01:20:15,002
I'm sorry, Stroud.
I know how important they are to you.
663
01:20:16,306 --> 01:20:18,880
Nobody looks at my record, huh?
664
01:20:19,017 --> 01:20:21,935
15 years without a mark against me.
665
01:20:22,062 --> 01:20:26,060
- That don't mean billy-be-damned.
- You're exaggerating your importance.
666
01:20:26,191 --> 01:20:30,770
These directives weren't made just
for you. It applies to the entire system.
667
01:20:30,904 --> 01:20:35,649
Prisoners now have dogs, cats,
parrots, canary birds, even monkeys.
668
01:20:35,784 --> 01:20:39,734
It's bad sanitation.
Feeding becomes a big problem.
669
01:20:39,871 --> 01:20:45,163
It creates feuds among inmates.
Other prisoners complain of lice and fleas.
670
01:20:45,294 --> 01:20:48,331
The situation simply has to be cleaned up.
671
01:20:48,464 --> 01:20:52,592
You have 60 days to get rid of your aviary.
That's all, Stroud.
672
01:21:05,898 --> 01:21:08,650
I never thought Uncle Sam
would go back on his word.
673
01:21:08,776 --> 01:21:10,816
Meaning what?
674
01:21:11,988 --> 01:21:16,864
There's been an understanding between
the government and me, for 11 years,
675
01:21:16,993 --> 01:21:19,151
that I could raise my birds.
676
01:21:19,287 --> 01:21:21,445
That pledge has been broken.
677
01:21:21,581 --> 01:21:26,243
- As far as I'm concerned, all bets are off.
- That sounds like a threat.
678
01:21:26,377 --> 01:21:30,376
Warden, you just got through
tellin' me that I ain't very important.
679
01:21:30,507 --> 01:21:34,422
How could I threaten a big,
powerful Washington bureau?
680
01:21:37,306 --> 01:21:39,879
I've been doin' a lot of thinkin', Mother.
681
01:21:40,017 --> 01:21:42,259
I have a plan, and it might work.
682
01:21:43,854 --> 01:21:45,894
What kind of a plan?
683
01:21:46,982 --> 01:21:50,066
Do you remember how
you saved my neck in 1920?
684
01:21:51,737 --> 01:21:55,437
- Yes, but I don't see...
- Publicity. That's what did it.
685
01:21:56,408 --> 01:21:58,068
I don't think I follow you.
686
01:21:58,202 --> 01:22:02,116
How many bird owners
know I'm a convict?
687
01:22:03,540 --> 01:22:06,992
- Just a few.
- Then we'll tell 'em.
688
01:22:07,127 --> 01:22:10,294
We'll tell 'em how
they're gonna take my birds away.
689
01:22:10,422 --> 01:22:14,468
We'll write to newspapers,
radio stations, commentators, columnists,
690
01:22:14,594 --> 01:22:16,468
bird clubs, magazines.
691
01:22:16,596 --> 01:22:20,297
We'll have people angry
from coast to coast.
692
01:22:20,433 --> 01:22:23,304
Excellent, Robbie. Excellent.
693
01:22:23,436 --> 01:22:25,892
We'll drive 'em right down the pike.
694
01:22:27,816 --> 01:22:30,389
It'll be just like it was in the old days.
695
01:22:30,527 --> 01:22:34,192
Just the two of us together,
fighting the world.
696
01:22:36,074 --> 01:22:39,906
I've just been to see Bob,
and I smuggled out this.
697
01:22:40,036 --> 01:22:42,706
It's instructions for the campaign.
698
01:22:44,874 --> 01:22:47,662
Why should he give you this material?
699
01:22:47,794 --> 01:22:50,878
The kind of thing he usually
entrusts to his mother.
700
01:22:51,005 --> 01:22:53,128
Well, I don't know.
701
01:22:53,258 --> 01:22:57,968
I guess that time was short.
It doesn't really matter, does it?
702
01:22:58,097 --> 01:23:02,510
There's a great deal of copying
to be done. You'll follow my directions.
703
01:23:02,643 --> 01:23:04,102
Yes, ma'am.
704
01:23:04,228 --> 01:23:09,353
Start with letters to the bird clubs.
When you've finished I'll assign you more.
705
01:23:09,483 --> 01:23:10,681
Yes, ma'am.
706
01:23:11,652 --> 01:23:16,148
Here it is. Right here on the second page
of the Kansas City Star.
707
01:23:16,282 --> 01:23:18,321
- Here.
- Oh, yes.
708
01:23:21,287 --> 01:23:23,326
That's not enough.
709
01:23:23,914 --> 01:23:28,956
I want the front page. We're ready now
for the next step of our campaign.
710
01:23:29,086 --> 01:23:31,624
- You got another idea?
- Yes, and it's dynamite.
711
01:23:31,756 --> 01:23:34,211
I came across it in an old law book.
712
01:23:34,759 --> 01:23:36,965
Stell, you can save my neck.
713
01:23:37,094 --> 01:23:40,049
How? Bob, you know I'd do anything.
714
01:23:40,182 --> 01:23:42,933
Now, listen, how would you
like to marry me?
715
01:23:50,442 --> 01:23:54,985
Let me understand you, now. Are you
trying to tell me that you married a man
716
01:23:55,113 --> 01:23:59,656
serving a life term in solitary
at Leavenworth penitentiary?
717
01:23:59,785 --> 01:24:02,240
Yes, sir. Yesterday.
718
01:24:02,371 --> 01:24:05,574
And where did the ceremony take place?
719
01:24:05,707 --> 01:24:07,747
At the penitentiary.
720
01:24:08,752 --> 01:24:11,539
By the prison chaplain, no doubt?
721
01:24:11,671 --> 01:24:15,171
No, sir. It was a civil ceremony.
722
01:24:16,551 --> 01:24:19,303
Well, go ahead. I've listened this far.
723
01:24:19,429 --> 01:24:21,718
Well, you see...
724
01:24:21,848 --> 01:24:22,848
Yes?
725
01:24:24,435 --> 01:24:28,303
You see, under the laws of the Treaty
of Paris and the Louisiana Purchase,
726
01:24:28,439 --> 01:24:33,350
all a man and woman had to do to be
legally married was to sign a declaration.
727
01:24:33,486 --> 01:24:35,977
You see, Leavenworth
is still federal property
728
01:24:36,114 --> 01:24:40,028
and is therefore immune to
the laws of the state of Kansas.
729
01:24:44,288 --> 01:24:47,159
It's all here, sir, if you want to read it.
730
01:24:53,131 --> 01:24:57,709
Stroud got his front page - and with
a bang heard all the way to Washington.
731
01:24:57,844 --> 01:25:01,972
Result... one of the strangest
conferences in prison history.
732
01:25:14,695 --> 01:25:17,150
The warden's on his way right now.
733
01:25:33,756 --> 01:25:35,795
- Hello, Bob.
- Hello, Harvey.
734
01:25:44,725 --> 01:25:48,639
Well, you've succeeded in creating
quite a little flurry with your birds.
735
01:25:48,771 --> 01:25:53,480
Just an inmate protecting his rights.
Would you like to sit down?
736
01:25:53,610 --> 01:25:55,649
Yes, thanks.
737
01:26:00,450 --> 01:26:05,871
Bob... I've been sent here as a delegate
of the bureau to make you an offer.
738
01:26:05,997 --> 01:26:08,749
That's what I've been waiting for.
739
01:26:08,875 --> 01:26:13,502
Now the bureau is willing to let you
keep your birds. You can even sell 'em.
740
01:26:13,630 --> 01:26:16,335
Now this is their official proposal.
741
01:26:16,466 --> 01:26:19,383
You can continue
to raise and sell the birds,
742
01:26:19,511 --> 01:26:23,045
but the profits will be turned over
to the prison welfare fund,
743
01:26:23,181 --> 01:26:26,515
and you will receive a salary
in the form of a share of the profits.
744
01:26:26,643 --> 01:26:28,682
10 dollars a month.
745
01:26:30,897 --> 01:26:35,642
I consider that quite a generous offer
under the circumstances.
746
01:26:35,777 --> 01:26:40,523
Frankly, it's more than I would
have offered, had I the authority.
747
01:26:43,661 --> 01:26:45,700
Well, Stroud?
748
01:26:50,000 --> 01:26:52,040
Let me see if I understand you.
749
01:26:53,546 --> 01:26:59,501
You're proposing that the US government
go into the canary-bird business.
750
01:26:59,635 --> 01:27:02,173
That's against private enterprise.
751
01:27:02,304 --> 01:27:04,546
You sound like a Bolshevik, Harvey.
752
01:27:04,682 --> 01:27:07,718
- You have no legal right to raise canaries.
- I know.
753
01:27:07,852 --> 01:27:12,348
Rule 60 of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
Manual: "An inmate cannot be permitted
754
01:27:12,481 --> 01:27:15,815
to operate a business, no matter
how legitimate, while in prison."
755
01:27:15,943 --> 01:27:18,066
- That right?
- You quoted it correctly.
756
01:27:18,195 --> 01:27:20,568
That's what I thought.
757
01:27:20,699 --> 01:27:22,738
That's why I'm confused.
758
01:27:23,744 --> 01:27:26,069
The rule says I can't have a business.
759
01:27:26,204 --> 01:27:29,289
You say I can, provided
I give you the profits.
760
01:27:30,375 --> 01:27:34,076
That's circumventing regulations.
It's not like you.
761
01:27:35,255 --> 01:27:40,332
Mr Shoemaker came to try to work out
a plan so you can keep your blasted birds.
762
01:27:40,469 --> 01:27:42,757
Don't con an old con, Warden.
763
01:27:42,888 --> 01:27:45,675
He came because of public opinion,
and you know it.
764
01:27:45,807 --> 01:27:48,049
50,000 signatures on a petition.
765
01:27:48,185 --> 01:27:51,269
Congressmen jumping
all over MacLeod's back.
766
01:27:54,816 --> 01:27:57,687
I think I got you over a barrel, Harvey.
767
01:27:59,821 --> 01:28:02,395
Is that your last word?
768
01:28:02,532 --> 01:28:04,905
I could use more room.
769
01:28:05,036 --> 01:28:07,075
For my birds.
770
01:28:09,791 --> 01:28:13,705
I'll report the minutes
of our conference to Mr MacLeod.
771
01:28:15,296 --> 01:28:17,336
That's all, Comstock.
772
01:28:27,016 --> 01:28:29,472
Have a nice trip back to Washington.
773
01:28:30,436 --> 01:28:32,892
I'm not going back to Washington.
774
01:28:33,815 --> 01:28:37,100
I'm heading a new penitentiary. Alcatraz.
775
01:28:40,613 --> 01:28:42,902
That's a big job, Harvey.
776
01:28:43,032 --> 01:28:45,072
I wish you luck.
777
01:28:47,829 --> 01:28:49,829
Thank you.
778
01:28:52,668 --> 01:28:56,997
Keep one thing in mind, Bob.
The public has a short memory.
779
01:29:01,468 --> 01:29:03,461
Hello, Mother. Here, sit ye down.
780
01:29:05,013 --> 01:29:07,683
You hear that? You know what that is?
781
01:29:09,476 --> 01:29:13,059
It's a jackhammer.
And do you know what it's doin'?
782
01:29:13,188 --> 01:29:17,518
- No, I haven't been informed as yet.
- They're tearing down the wall of my cell.
783
01:29:17,651 --> 01:29:20,272
And cuttin' through
a doorway into the next one.
784
01:29:20,404 --> 01:29:23,488
- I'm gonna have two cells for my birds.
- How nice.
785
01:29:23,615 --> 01:29:25,738
I can keep 'em and I can sell 'em.
786
01:29:25,868 --> 01:29:30,826
I get larger quarters and even some
laboratory equipment. How about that?
787
01:29:33,209 --> 01:29:37,752
Two women and a con,
and we whipped the bureau to a standstill.
788
01:29:38,923 --> 01:29:40,963
That's very good news indeed.
789
01:29:42,594 --> 01:29:47,137
Of course, there was a time
when I would have been the first to know.
790
01:29:47,265 --> 01:29:50,017
It's a real victory, Mother.
791
01:29:50,143 --> 01:29:52,599
And I got you and Stell to thank.
792
01:29:55,106 --> 01:29:57,146
Sit down, Robbie.
793
01:30:02,530 --> 01:30:05,816
- I want to talk to you about her.
- About Stella?
794
01:30:05,950 --> 01:30:10,493
Your association with her
will bring you nothing but trouble.
795
01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:13,664
I don't know what you mean.
796
01:30:13,792 --> 01:30:17,837
She's the wrong kind of a woman
for you to align yourself with.
797
01:30:21,634 --> 01:30:25,003
She's worked her heart out for me.
She saved my bacon.
798
01:30:25,137 --> 01:30:29,265
All right. She was of use temporarily,
but she's served her purpose.
799
01:30:29,392 --> 01:30:32,891
And now if you'll follow my advice,
you'll get rid of her.
800
01:30:39,402 --> 01:30:42,402
I don't understand
what you're talkin' about, Mom.
801
01:30:42,530 --> 01:30:44,569
She's my wife.
802
01:30:46,200 --> 01:30:49,616
Your trouble began with
that other woman in Alaska.
803
01:30:50,788 --> 01:30:53,279
She's the same kind of a woman.
804
01:30:53,999 --> 01:30:58,543
- She's a common adventuress.
- Don't say things like that, Mother.
805
01:31:00,423 --> 01:31:03,294
She's a good woman. And she's kind.
806
01:31:04,803 --> 01:31:07,211
And she'd do anything in the world for me.
807
01:31:07,347 --> 01:31:09,387
It's disaster, Robbie.
808
01:31:10,851 --> 01:31:13,721
She'll bring you nothing but heartache.
809
01:31:15,981 --> 01:31:18,686
Besides, all she wanted was the publicity.
810
01:31:22,112 --> 01:31:25,812
Mother... you can't be serious.
811
01:31:32,748 --> 01:31:34,906
I can't believe this is happening.
812
01:31:42,257 --> 01:31:45,342
Give her up, Robbie. Forget her.
813
01:32:09,535 --> 01:32:13,319
You act as though
you wanted me here for all time.
814
01:32:13,456 --> 01:32:15,994
With you as my only outside connection.
815
01:32:19,796 --> 01:32:21,196
Then...
816
01:32:22,090 --> 01:32:26,752
Then you choose her
instead of your own mother?
817
01:32:27,637 --> 01:32:29,677
Don't say any more, Mother.
818
01:32:30,474 --> 01:32:31,874
Please.
819
01:32:37,564 --> 01:32:41,265
That's your decision? To desert me?
820
01:32:53,288 --> 01:32:58,912
Mrs Stroud? My name is Peterson.
I'm a reporter from the Kansas City Star.
821
01:32:59,044 --> 01:33:02,828
My paper wants a follow-up story
on your son's marriage.
822
01:33:02,965 --> 01:33:04,625
No comment.
823
01:33:04,758 --> 01:33:08,803
Well, does this so-called marriage
come as a surprise to you, Mrs Stroud?
824
01:33:08,929 --> 01:33:11,420
I knew nothing of it.
825
01:33:11,557 --> 01:33:13,597
Your son's parole hearing is coming up.
826
01:33:13,727 --> 01:33:16,644
Who'll lead the fight this time?
You or Stella Johnson?
827
01:33:16,771 --> 01:33:18,811
There will be no fight.
828
01:33:21,234 --> 01:33:25,398
Wait a minute, Mrs Stroud.
What do you mean, there'll be no fight?
829
01:33:29,743 --> 01:33:31,782
Just what does that mean?
830
01:33:34,038 --> 01:33:36,494
My son is where he belongs.
831
01:33:37,292 --> 01:33:41,503
I shall do nothing to obtain
his release from the penitentiary.
832
01:33:41,629 --> 01:33:44,417
And this is for quotation?
833
01:33:44,549 --> 01:33:47,170
I know he's safe where he is.
834
01:33:47,302 --> 01:33:52,260
I wanna be sure. Are you saying
you'd rather have him in there than free?
835
01:33:52,390 --> 01:33:55,060
You now oppose your own son's parole?
836
01:33:57,188 --> 01:33:59,643
I'm doing it for his own good.
837
01:34:02,109 --> 01:34:06,652
Well, Bob, you're the first con
in history that ever had two cells.
838
01:34:11,035 --> 01:34:13,074
Gonna be great for the birds.
839
01:34:19,168 --> 01:34:24,126
It's in all the papers. I can't understand
how she could turn on you that way.
840
01:34:25,883 --> 01:34:29,382
Do you know what a mother tiger
does when she's upset?
841
01:34:30,137 --> 01:34:32,177
She eats her young.
842
01:34:40,106 --> 01:34:43,606
Maybe I could talk to your old lady,
try and fix it up.
843
01:34:44,194 --> 01:34:46,650
I guarantee she'll change her mind.
844
01:34:55,914 --> 01:34:56,914
Bob!
845
01:35:10,262 --> 01:35:12,717
Far as I'm concerned, she's dead.
846
01:35:24,860 --> 01:35:26,900
I gotta go make my bed check.
847
01:35:52,472 --> 01:35:54,963
You know what this is, friends?
848
01:35:55,099 --> 01:35:57,139
This is 180-proof alcohol.
849
01:36:00,521 --> 01:36:03,641
I'm gonna make me
a Leavenworth cocktail.
850
01:36:03,775 --> 01:36:06,859
You watch now.
You're gonna see me get drunk.
851
01:36:33,972 --> 01:36:36,012
Fly, my avian friends.
852
01:36:38,644 --> 01:36:41,099
I give you the illusion of freedom.
853
01:36:43,482 --> 01:36:45,282
Enjoy it.
854
01:37:18,059 --> 01:37:20,099
Go ahead, open it.
855
01:37:23,606 --> 01:37:25,017
Go ahead.
856
01:38:06,692 --> 01:38:11,853
Picked it up last night in a hockshop.
Thought you might get a kick out of it.
857
01:38:31,301 --> 01:38:34,385
Why don't you look at somethin',
see if it works?
858
01:38:49,403 --> 01:38:54,148
Mr Ransom, you sure are a darlin' man!
859
01:38:55,700 --> 01:38:57,740
Keep both eyes open.
860
01:38:57,869 --> 01:39:01,997
After a while, you'll see only
through the eye of the eyepiece.
861
01:39:14,137 --> 01:39:16,425
That's the ticket.
862
01:39:16,931 --> 01:39:20,976
For Stroud, that microscope
was the lantern he had been waiting for
863
01:39:21,102 --> 01:39:26,441
to light his way into the marvellous
and exacting truth of scientific research.
864
01:39:26,566 --> 01:39:28,642
His object... the bird.
865
01:39:28,776 --> 01:39:34,980
His tools... curiosity, dedication,
and the nerve of a riverboat gambler,
866
01:39:35,116 --> 01:39:39,279
as he ripped into studies which read like
the curriculum of a medical university.
867
01:39:39,412 --> 01:39:43,741
Cytology, morphology, biochemistry.
868
01:39:45,084 --> 01:39:47,789
Stroud decided he was
equipped to launch a project
869
01:39:47,920 --> 01:39:50,210
he had long dreamed about -
870
01:39:50,340 --> 01:39:53,211
a definitive work on the diseases of birds.
871
01:39:54,219 --> 01:39:58,466
He had found cures for diseases
he could hardly pronounce,
872
01:39:58,599 --> 01:40:04,518
like haemorrhagic septicaemia, bird
diphtheria, aspergillosis, avian cholera.
873
01:40:04,646 --> 01:40:08,430
He even found a specific
for fowl paralysis,
874
01:40:08,567 --> 01:40:13,110
thereby saving poultry ranches
the lives of thousands of chickens.
875
01:40:14,907 --> 01:40:20,149
The title of his book was "Stroud's
Digest of the Diseases of Birds".
876
01:40:20,287 --> 01:40:22,825
Its contents established beyond doubt
877
01:40:22,956 --> 01:40:27,914
that the ageing prisoner was
the world's foremost authority in his field.
878
01:40:29,505 --> 01:40:32,375
The book took seven years to complete.
879
01:40:34,469 --> 01:40:37,672
I want your scientific opinion
about this book of Stroud's.
880
01:40:37,806 --> 01:40:40,676
Is it baloney or does it
amount to anything?
881
01:40:45,021 --> 01:40:47,061
Well, Doctor?
882
01:40:48,191 --> 01:40:50,647
It's hardly what you'd call baloney.
883
01:40:51,903 --> 01:40:57,277
It's a highly scientific study
of the pathology - diseases - of birds.
884
01:40:58,243 --> 01:41:01,694
You think Stroud's
quite a man, don't you?
885
01:41:01,830 --> 01:41:04,202
I think he's a genius.
886
01:41:04,332 --> 01:41:07,250
Why? Just because
he's written a book about birds?
887
01:41:07,377 --> 01:41:09,832
No. No, not because of that.
888
01:41:09,963 --> 01:41:13,248
Because, with only
a third-grade education,
889
01:41:14,300 --> 01:41:18,002
he's become expert
in subjects like haematology -
890
01:41:18,973 --> 01:41:20,847
that's blood.
891
01:41:20,975 --> 01:41:23,845
Histology - tissue. Anatomy.
892
01:41:25,688 --> 01:41:30,184
Studies tough enough with an instructor
in college, but self-taught in a cell,
893
01:41:30,317 --> 01:41:33,022
an accomplishment
that staggers imagination.
894
01:41:33,154 --> 01:41:35,609
He's smart. He has a high IQ.
895
01:41:37,074 --> 01:41:39,779
He's more than that. He's dedicated.
896
01:41:39,910 --> 01:41:43,160
He's spent over 3,000 hours
at that microscope of his,
897
01:41:43,289 --> 01:41:46,989
made hundreds of drawings,
over 5,000 tissue sections.
898
01:41:47,835 --> 01:41:51,251
He has one of the finest collections
of slides on birds in existence.
899
01:41:51,380 --> 01:41:56,375
Knows more about avian anatomy
and pathology than any man alive.
900
01:41:56,510 --> 01:41:59,844
OK. I'll recommend his book
go to the publisher's.
901
01:41:59,972 --> 01:42:02,429
Make the bird-lovers happy.
902
01:42:06,021 --> 01:42:10,599
If Stroud's paroled and gets a laboratory,
there's no telling what he might do.
903
01:42:10,734 --> 01:42:13,735
He should be working on
human diseases, not birds'.
904
01:42:13,862 --> 01:42:16,946
Paroled? Not much chance of that.
905
01:42:18,992 --> 01:42:21,613
I thought his record was good.
906
01:42:21,745 --> 01:42:23,784
Not in the eyes of the bureau.
907
01:42:23,914 --> 01:42:27,781
His attitude is poor.
He thinks he's a world unto himself,
908
01:42:27,918 --> 01:42:31,785
like we were his own
personal quartermaster corps.
909
01:42:31,922 --> 01:42:35,622
Chemicals,
laboratory equipment, birdseed.
910
01:42:36,593 --> 01:42:41,385
Now he's demanding 25lbs of ice
every day. It's got to stop someplace.
911
01:42:41,515 --> 01:42:44,599
I'd give him 500lbs of ice
a day if he wanted it.
912
01:42:45,435 --> 01:42:47,476
You would, huh?
913
01:42:48,314 --> 01:42:51,185
I wonder if the bureau
isn't afraid of Stroud.
914
01:42:51,317 --> 01:42:55,397
Afraid to let the public know what kind of
a brain they're keeping locked up here.
915
01:42:55,530 --> 01:42:58,899
Doctor, we're keeping
a killer locked up here.
916
01:42:59,033 --> 01:43:01,358
Don't forget it.
917
01:43:01,744 --> 01:43:05,196
I heard from that professor,
the one at the university of Kansas.
918
01:43:05,331 --> 01:43:09,329
He said if I were out, I might have
a good chance to get a research grant.
919
01:43:09,460 --> 01:43:12,461
- What's that?
- Well, they pay you to do research.
920
01:43:12,588 --> 01:43:15,258
Bob! But that's wonderful!
921
01:43:15,383 --> 01:43:18,337
Only one drawback - gettin' out.
922
01:43:18,469 --> 01:43:21,885
Well, how can the parole board
turn you down now?
923
01:43:22,014 --> 01:43:26,427
Boy, they talk about rehabilitation.
This book and the cures you discovered...
924
01:43:26,561 --> 01:43:28,849
What do they want?
925
01:43:28,980 --> 01:43:33,726
I wish you were on that board, Stell.
I'd be strollin' down the avenue right now.
926
01:43:33,861 --> 01:43:38,523
But let's not make any plans.
I've seen too many of 'em go up in smoke.
927
01:43:38,657 --> 01:43:42,406
You still won't let yourself
think about getting out, will you?
928
01:43:42,536 --> 01:43:45,620
Bob, what's wrong with
having a little faith?
929
01:43:49,334 --> 01:43:51,790
You're always bringing me new words.
930
01:43:53,130 --> 01:43:55,336
Like "love" and "faith".
931
01:43:55,466 --> 01:43:59,380
You're a wonderful man.
You've done some great things.
932
01:43:59,511 --> 01:44:03,461
I have faith that the parole board
will see how good you are.
933
01:44:03,599 --> 01:44:08,973
Golly, you just can't go on thinking that
you're gonna be here the rest of your life.
934
01:44:22,160 --> 01:44:27,664
All right, honey. I'll bring faith
into my cell tonight and entertain it.
935
01:44:27,791 --> 01:44:29,830
Just for the soup course.
936
01:44:32,045 --> 01:44:35,745
But don't you start buying me
any new neckties yet, OK?
937
01:44:37,634 --> 01:44:39,673
You look pretty today.
938
01:44:59,657 --> 01:45:01,696
Bob, come on, wake up.
939
01:45:01,826 --> 01:45:03,865
Bob, wake up. Come on. Get up.
940
01:45:04,703 --> 01:45:06,743
What's up, Bull?
941
01:45:07,706 --> 01:45:09,746
Your transfer orders.
942
01:45:27,435 --> 01:45:29,226
Alcatraz.
943
01:45:32,273 --> 01:45:34,312
Here. Better get dressed.
944
01:45:36,777 --> 01:45:39,862
- Dressed?
- Now. They're on their way down.
945
01:45:57,007 --> 01:45:59,046
All right, let's go.
946
01:46:05,891 --> 01:46:08,975
- Why this time of night?
- Orders. Step on it.
947
01:46:14,816 --> 01:46:18,316
What about my equipment? My birds?
948
01:46:18,445 --> 01:46:23,605
Our instructions are you walk outta here
with just the clothes you have on.
949
01:46:26,871 --> 01:46:30,322
I got a sick bird in there. Can I fix it?
950
01:46:31,667 --> 01:46:33,707
Of course you can.
951
01:46:51,687 --> 01:46:53,727
Listen to me, Bull.
952
01:46:58,820 --> 01:47:00,859
I want you to talk to Stella.
953
01:47:05,159 --> 01:47:07,829
I want you to tell her not to follow me.
954
01:47:15,963 --> 01:47:18,169
Under no conditions.
955
01:47:19,091 --> 01:47:21,130
Understand?
956
01:47:24,388 --> 01:47:29,346
You better grab that pension and beat it,
before these walls get to ya.
957
01:47:32,855 --> 01:47:34,894
I'll try and write.
958
01:47:35,941 --> 01:47:40,069
Don't waste your time grieving over me.
When it's cut, it's cut.
959
01:47:51,331 --> 01:47:53,371
So long, friend.
960
01:47:57,088 --> 01:47:59,128
Merry Christmas, boys.
961
01:47:59,883 --> 01:48:01,922
I could use a rest.
962
01:49:33,395 --> 01:49:34,339
Yes?
963
01:49:34,439 --> 01:49:37,521
Prisoner Stroud
completed processing, sir.
964
01:49:37,649 --> 01:49:39,649
Thank you.
965
01:49:49,870 --> 01:49:53,737
Dog block. Solitary again, hm?
966
01:49:53,874 --> 01:49:56,958
It's not called solitary here. Segregation.
967
01:49:59,004 --> 01:50:01,043
Interesting name.
968
01:50:16,355 --> 01:50:19,025
- Silence rule?
- Strictly enforced.
969
01:50:31,746 --> 01:50:33,785
Hello, Bob.
970
01:50:35,875 --> 01:50:39,161
- How are you, Harvey?
- Pretty good for an old man.
971
01:50:40,630 --> 01:50:42,669
You're looking well.
972
01:50:46,385 --> 01:50:49,552
How was your trip out?
Not too unpleasant, I hope.
973
01:50:49,680 --> 01:50:52,552
Well, I've always enjoyed travelling.
974
01:50:54,853 --> 01:50:58,269
It's quite an establishment
you've got here.
975
01:50:58,398 --> 01:51:00,438
Yes, it has its good points.
976
01:51:05,030 --> 01:51:08,114
It's modern, well-heated, clean.
977
01:51:09,660 --> 01:51:13,527
First thing I noticed. Almost antiseptic.
978
01:51:13,664 --> 01:51:16,333
Yeah, you'll find no cockroaches here.
979
01:51:18,127 --> 01:51:21,661
We have linoleum on
all the floors of the cells.
980
01:51:21,839 --> 01:51:25,539
Coming over on the launch,
I saw some children playing.
981
01:51:27,803 --> 01:51:31,338
They belong to the guards
and all the other personnel.
982
01:51:31,473 --> 01:51:33,964
We all live on the Rock, too.
983
01:51:34,101 --> 01:51:36,344
Interesting, isn't it?
984
01:51:36,479 --> 01:51:38,935
The game of tag never grows old.
985
01:51:42,193 --> 01:51:45,064
Doesn't seem so long ago
I played it myself.
986
01:51:49,075 --> 01:51:52,575
I got a good report on you
from Leavenworth, Bob.
987
01:51:52,704 --> 01:51:56,404
And I'm satisfied you'll make
the adjustment here.
988
01:51:56,541 --> 01:51:59,210
Now, your orders call for segregation.
989
01:52:00,378 --> 01:52:04,672
But I think if you toe the mark,
eventually we can improve on that,
990
01:52:04,799 --> 01:52:07,670
make things a little more pleasant for you.
991
01:52:15,977 --> 01:52:20,854
My office is always open. If you're not
treated right, just let me know.
992
01:52:20,983 --> 01:52:23,439
Do the children enjoy living here?
993
01:52:26,363 --> 01:52:29,448
I don't suppose any of us
truly enjoy living on this island.
994
01:52:29,575 --> 01:52:32,031
It wasn't designed for pleasure.
995
01:52:42,630 --> 01:52:44,030
Stroud.
996
01:52:44,882 --> 01:52:47,282
Hey, Stroud.
997
01:53:03,985 --> 01:53:04,985
Feto.
998
01:53:06,613 --> 01:53:08,155
Feto Gomez.
999
01:53:08,281 --> 01:53:10,951
You old buzzard. I heard you was comin'.
1000
01:53:23,755 --> 01:53:28,631
- It's good to see ya. How do you feel?
- Still squeakin' by.
1001
01:53:28,760 --> 01:53:30,800
Remember the birds? Huh?
1002
01:53:31,555 --> 01:53:34,390
Ape and Jackie.
Them was good times, you know.
1003
01:53:34,516 --> 01:53:37,185
They sure were. Gee, you look good.
1004
01:53:42,983 --> 01:53:46,683
I still figure you stole
them baby canaries from me.
1005
01:53:46,820 --> 01:53:50,190
Well, you know me, Feto.
I'm just an old thief.
1006
01:53:54,746 --> 01:53:57,533
Have you seen the Shoemaker lately?
1007
01:53:58,750 --> 01:54:00,707
He met me at the barn door.
1008
01:54:08,092 --> 01:54:10,762
Well, he ain't such a bad old guy.
1009
01:54:10,887 --> 01:54:13,342
We been cutting it pretty good lately.
1010
01:54:14,015 --> 01:54:16,007
He made me trusty.
1011
01:54:16,142 --> 01:54:18,016
- Trusty?
- Sure.
1012
01:54:18,144 --> 01:54:23,304
No use beatin' your head up against the
wall. I should've wised up a long time ago.
1013
01:54:24,609 --> 01:54:26,732
I been flyin' right lately,
1014
01:54:26,861 --> 01:54:30,194
because my parole
comes up again in November,
1015
01:54:30,323 --> 01:54:34,986
and I'm gonna hit those bricks
before I kick the bucket, you see?
1016
01:54:35,120 --> 01:54:38,572
Sure. Sure, I understand, Feto.
1017
01:55:01,021 --> 01:55:03,061
You still go for the mince pie?
1018
01:55:04,817 --> 01:55:09,977
I can do you a lot of good, because I'm
the head man with the steam table here.
1019
01:55:11,532 --> 01:55:17,618
And old Feto Gomez can sneak you two,
1020
01:55:17,747 --> 01:55:20,417
maybe even three pieces every so often.
1021
01:55:26,339 --> 01:55:28,581
- Feto.
- Yeah?
1022
01:55:29,467 --> 01:55:32,302
- How much time you done?
- Time?
1023
01:55:32,429 --> 01:55:35,133
Yeah. How much time? Altogether?
1024
01:55:37,100 --> 01:55:39,009
I don't know.
1025
01:55:39,144 --> 01:55:41,183
Let me recollect.
1026
01:55:43,273 --> 01:55:45,312
I knocked off four at Atlanta.
1027
01:55:46,401 --> 01:55:48,440
I did three at Juliet.
1028
01:55:50,238 --> 01:55:53,856
And then I did that ten-spot
with you at Leavenworth.
1029
01:55:53,992 --> 01:55:56,447
And then I was on the street for four.
1030
01:55:56,578 --> 01:55:58,950
And then I been here for six.
1031
01:55:59,080 --> 01:56:01,751
- How much is that?
- 23.
1032
01:56:01,876 --> 01:56:02,876
Yeah.
1033
01:56:04,086 --> 01:56:08,131
- Why do you wanna know, Bob?
- Nothin'. I just wondered.
1034
01:56:08,257 --> 01:56:11,507
- What's all the gabbin', Gomez?
- Nothin', sir.
1035
01:56:11,635 --> 01:56:15,135
The prisoner just wanted
some more meat.
1036
01:56:16,891 --> 01:56:19,678
No chance, Stroud. No extra portions.
1037
01:56:19,810 --> 01:56:23,511
Everybody gets treated the same here,
you understand?
1038
01:56:41,999 --> 01:56:44,456
- Bob.
- I'm gonna wallop you today.
1039
01:56:50,425 --> 01:56:53,212
Congratulations on
the publication of your book.
1040
01:56:53,345 --> 01:56:56,050
Yeah, it's a honey. It should sell big.
1041
01:56:56,181 --> 01:57:00,179
But that's all behind me now.
I've started writin' a new book.
1042
01:57:00,310 --> 01:57:04,806
The history of federal prisons from 1790
up to the formation of the bureau.
1043
01:57:04,940 --> 01:57:07,691
A story about caged men
rather than birds.
1044
01:57:07,818 --> 01:57:10,356
What prison does to 'em.
1045
01:57:10,487 --> 01:57:13,156
Got the idea from seein' an old friend.
1046
01:57:14,533 --> 01:57:18,945
- It's an ambitious undertaking, Bob.
- It'll knock the public cold.
1047
01:57:19,079 --> 01:57:21,914
Graft, corruption,
1048
01:57:22,040 --> 01:57:24,496
stupidity, sadism.
1049
01:57:25,877 --> 01:57:28,665
All the elements
of a best seller, eh, Father?
1050
01:57:28,798 --> 01:57:32,167
- It's a story that needs telling.
- And how!
1051
01:57:32,301 --> 01:57:37,213
You realise, of course,
it involves a certain element of risk.
1052
01:57:38,891 --> 01:57:40,931
I do indeed.
1053
01:57:41,060 --> 01:57:43,100
But you know somethin'?
1054
01:57:44,647 --> 01:57:48,479
When you've lived in these manure piles
for over 30 years, as I have,
1055
01:57:48,609 --> 01:57:51,694
you come to know everything's a risk.
1056
01:57:51,821 --> 01:57:53,860
Your serve.
1057
01:57:56,826 --> 01:57:59,696
- I wish you luck.
- It's worth the gamble.
1058
01:58:43,916 --> 01:58:46,585
I'm confiscating this manuscript, Bob.
1059
01:58:47,252 --> 01:58:49,328
Have you read it?
1060
01:58:49,463 --> 01:58:54,208
Enough to realise that it's a blast
at the entire penal system.
1061
01:58:54,343 --> 01:58:56,383
You're in serious trouble.
1062
01:58:57,430 --> 01:59:01,048
The bureau has known for months
what you were writing.
1063
01:59:01,184 --> 01:59:03,853
You haven't told me what you think of it.
1064
01:59:10,110 --> 01:59:12,149
I resent this personally.
1065
01:59:13,822 --> 01:59:16,858
I stand high in my profession,
1066
01:59:16,991 --> 01:59:19,696
and I believe I've earned that esteem.
1067
01:59:19,828 --> 01:59:23,197
I am proud of the advances
that I have helped to inaugurate.
1068
01:59:23,331 --> 01:59:26,498
Think back to the old times.
Leg irons, carrying the iron ball,
1069
01:59:26,626 --> 01:59:30,873
stripes, corporal punishment,
indefinite periods in the hole.
1070
01:59:31,005 --> 01:59:34,172
I have been instrumental
in abolishing that kind of treatment.
1071
01:59:34,300 --> 01:59:36,340
Yes, that's true, Harvey.
1072
01:59:37,095 --> 01:59:42,719
Furthermore, you completely ignore my
fight for a constructive work programme.
1073
01:59:42,852 --> 01:59:46,552
Like making belt buckles,
or running a drill press?
1074
01:59:48,774 --> 01:59:49,974
I see.
1075
01:59:50,943 --> 01:59:55,901
My entire career has been for nothing.
I'm all wrong and you're all right.
1076
01:59:56,949 --> 02:00:01,907
I'm not talking about one tree, Harvey.
I'm talking about the whole forest.
1077
02:00:02,037 --> 02:00:05,241
I haven't spent most of my life
behind bars for nothing.
1078
02:00:05,374 --> 02:00:10,332
I've reached conclusions about penology,
and a couple of them may be valid.
1079
02:00:13,090 --> 02:00:16,590
When you first came here,
I thought you were changed.
1080
02:00:19,013 --> 02:00:23,342
I was even planning to return you
to the general prison population.
1081
02:00:25,812 --> 02:00:29,561
And now this. Well,
you're not gonna get away with it.
1082
02:00:30,358 --> 02:00:35,982
The bureau has suggested privileges be
suspended. You know what that means.
1083
02:00:36,114 --> 02:00:40,159
You know better than try to frighten me,
Harvey, at this late date.
1084
02:00:40,285 --> 02:00:42,325
Damn your heart!
1085
02:00:44,331 --> 02:00:47,000
Do you think that
I wanna go on punishing you?
1086
02:00:47,125 --> 02:00:51,668
We've grown old together, and in all that
time I've only asked one thing from you.
1087
02:00:51,797 --> 02:00:55,047
Cooperation. The only thing
I've ever gotten back was defiance!
1088
02:00:55,175 --> 02:00:59,303
Not once have you ever shown
a sign of rehabilitation!
1089
02:01:12,360 --> 02:01:14,981
- Rehabilitation.
- Yes. Rehabilitation.
1090
02:01:15,113 --> 02:01:17,983
I wonder if you know
what the word means.
1091
02:01:19,951 --> 02:01:21,351
Do you?
1092
02:01:21,911 --> 02:01:23,820
Now don't be insulting.
1093
02:01:28,459 --> 02:01:32,124
The unabridged Webster's
International Dictionary
1094
02:01:32,255 --> 02:01:35,209
says it comes from the Latin root habilis.
1095
02:01:35,341 --> 02:01:40,086
The definition is:
To invest again with dignity.
1096
02:01:40,721 --> 02:01:45,882
Do you consider that part of your job, to
give a man back the dignity he once had?
1097
02:01:47,186 --> 02:01:49,724
Your only interest is in how he behaves.
1098
02:01:49,856 --> 02:01:54,020
You told me that once a long time ago,
and I'll never forget it.
1099
02:01:54,153 --> 02:01:58,316
"You'll conform to our ideas
of how you should behave."
1100
02:01:58,449 --> 02:02:02,529
And you haven't retreated from
that stand one inch in 35 years.
1101
02:02:03,328 --> 02:02:06,911
You want your prisoners to dance
out the gates like puppets on a string,
1102
02:02:07,040 --> 02:02:10,540
with rubber-stamp values
impressed by you,
1103
02:02:10,669 --> 02:02:14,881
with your sense of conformity,
your sense of behaviour,
1104
02:02:15,007 --> 02:02:17,462
even your sense of morality.
1105
02:02:18,927 --> 02:02:21,632
That's why you're a failure, Harvey.
1106
02:02:21,764 --> 02:02:24,301
You and the whole science of penology.
1107
02:02:25,184 --> 02:02:28,932
Because you rob prisoners of
the most important thing in their lives -
1108
02:02:29,062 --> 02:02:31,102
their individuality.
1109
02:02:32,441 --> 02:02:37,567
On the outside they're lost, automatons,
just going through the motions of living.
1110
02:02:37,697 --> 02:02:42,026
But underneath there's a deep,
deep hatred for what you did to them.
1111
02:02:42,869 --> 02:02:46,452
First chance they get
to attack society, they do it.
1112
02:02:46,581 --> 02:02:50,080
The result? More than half
come back to prison.
1113
02:02:53,505 --> 02:02:55,746
Now it's all here in my book.
1114
02:02:55,882 --> 02:02:59,381
And I suggest you read it
and you read it thoroughly.
1115
02:03:03,681 --> 02:03:06,351
All right, you've spoken your piece.
1116
02:03:10,396 --> 02:03:13,481
I have no course left but to speak mine.
1117
02:03:20,115 --> 02:03:25,620
This San Francisco climate sure doesn't
help an old man's aches and pains.
1118
02:03:25,746 --> 02:03:27,786
Where does it hurt you, Harvey?
1119
02:03:29,333 --> 02:03:32,002
In my left shoulder and down my arm.
1120
02:03:33,796 --> 02:03:36,085
You should have a medical checkup.
1121
02:03:36,215 --> 02:03:37,215
Yeah.
1122
02:04:12,169 --> 02:04:13,169
594.
1123
02:04:17,299 --> 02:04:19,338
You got a visitor.
1124
02:05:12,230 --> 02:05:14,430
Hello, Bob.
1125
02:05:14,774 --> 02:05:17,016
Hello, Stell.
1126
02:05:17,151 --> 02:05:19,607
Well, here I am.
1127
02:05:21,072 --> 02:05:23,527
I know what you told Bull to tell me.
1128
02:05:24,575 --> 02:05:27,362
Then why did you come?
1129
02:05:27,495 --> 02:05:29,950
What else have I got to do?
1130
02:05:31,082 --> 02:05:32,282
Bob...
1131
02:05:32,959 --> 02:05:37,337
Bob, I could get on your visiting list.
I could get a job in Oakland maybe.
1132
02:05:37,464 --> 02:05:39,457
I could get a room at the waterfront,
1133
02:05:39,591 --> 02:05:43,007
and you could get some spyglasses
and see my room from your cell.
1134
02:05:43,137 --> 02:05:44,963
It's no use, Stell.
1135
02:05:45,097 --> 02:05:49,889
Please, Bob. There's still hope.
Bureau policy changes.
1136
02:05:50,018 --> 02:05:53,933
There's always the chance
the president will pardon you.
1137
02:05:55,190 --> 02:05:58,357
Why did you come
2,000 miles for nothin'?
1138
02:05:58,485 --> 02:06:00,941
Just to see me once a month?
1139
02:06:02,739 --> 02:06:05,824
I came because I'm your wife, that's why.
1140
02:06:08,370 --> 02:06:12,664
Bob, the only life I got is you.
1141
02:06:13,333 --> 02:06:16,999
Then you've got a damned
poor future, old girl.
1142
02:06:17,129 --> 02:06:19,917
I'm never gonna get outta here.
1143
02:06:20,049 --> 02:06:23,584
I could get a job in a factory.
I could write letters every day.
1144
02:06:23,720 --> 02:06:27,670
- It would be like old times.
- You'd wither away and die waiting.
1145
02:06:27,807 --> 02:06:30,892
- Forget it, Stell. It's the end of the line.
- Please, Bob.
1146
02:06:31,019 --> 02:06:34,719
Now, listen to me. Listen carefully.
1147
02:06:39,652 --> 02:06:42,108
You fought your heart out for me.
1148
02:06:47,535 --> 02:06:51,403
You fought your heart out for me,
but the sun's gone down.
1149
02:06:51,539 --> 02:06:54,493
And don't look for it to rise again.
1150
02:06:54,626 --> 02:06:57,295
I want you to pretend that I'm a dead man.
1151
02:06:59,297 --> 02:07:05,004
I want you to pretend...
that you're standin' on my grave.
1152
02:07:11,727 --> 02:07:14,847
Remember the story
I told you about Runty,
1153
02:07:14,980 --> 02:07:17,020
my sparrow, how I turned him loose?
1154
02:07:18,859 --> 02:07:21,896
Yes, but he came back.
1155
02:07:22,488 --> 02:07:24,943
Yes, he came back and he died.
1156
02:07:28,119 --> 02:07:31,618
Stell, you're not such an old girl.
1157
02:07:33,165 --> 02:07:36,451
You still got a dance or two left in ya.
1158
02:07:36,585 --> 02:07:39,041
Don't waste 'em waitin' for a lifer.
1159
02:07:45,469 --> 02:07:47,759
All right, Bob.
1160
02:07:47,889 --> 02:07:49,965
Whatever you say.
1161
02:07:52,144 --> 02:07:56,687
Now you... go on back
to Shelbyville, Indiana.
1162
02:07:58,525 --> 02:08:00,981
Open up a pet store.
1163
02:08:01,987 --> 02:08:03,564
All right, Bob.
1164
02:08:03,697 --> 02:08:06,152
Specialise in parakeets.
1165
02:08:06,283 --> 02:08:09,486
They're the coming thing, you know.
1166
02:08:09,619 --> 02:08:13,949
I could still sell Stroud's Specifics.
1167
02:08:15,250 --> 02:08:18,584
- There's still a market for 'em.
- And canaries.
1168
02:08:18,712 --> 02:08:22,626
- People always like canaries.
- That's the ticket.
1169
02:08:22,841 --> 02:08:27,384
And if a bird got sick,
I could look in your book.
1170
02:08:29,139 --> 02:08:30,515
Sure, Stell.
1171
02:08:35,730 --> 02:08:38,185
I can have a nice little business.
1172
02:08:41,611 --> 02:08:43,936
Stell, you'll be just fine.
1173
02:08:55,082 --> 02:08:57,538
I've got to go now.
1174
02:09:12,141 --> 02:09:14,182
Goodbye, Bob.
1175
02:09:46,802 --> 02:09:48,841
Goodbye, wife.
1176
02:09:59,107 --> 02:10:02,357
A prison is
a vast boiler of despair,
1177
02:10:02,485 --> 02:10:05,155
stoked by hatred and anger.
1178
02:10:05,280 --> 02:10:09,989
Alcatraz has the reputation of being
the harshest of all American prisons.
1179
02:10:10,118 --> 02:10:13,202
This means endless hours of idleness,
1180
02:10:13,329 --> 02:10:18,406
with little useful work and
limited prospects for rehabilitation.
1181
02:10:18,543 --> 02:10:23,501
Eventually, the pressure of life
without hope becomes unendurable.
1182
02:10:32,056 --> 02:10:36,006
On a lovely spring day in May 1946,
1183
02:10:36,144 --> 02:10:39,892
two convicts named Logue and Burns
1184
02:10:40,023 --> 02:10:44,318
started one of the most terrifying
riots in prison history.
1185
02:10:44,445 --> 02:10:48,229
With a contrivance made
in the machine shop and smuggled out,
1186
02:10:48,365 --> 02:10:51,070
Burns spread the bars in the gun gallery,
1187
02:10:51,202 --> 02:10:55,330
secured arms and ammunition,
and crossed over to "D" block,
1188
02:10:55,456 --> 02:10:58,326
which contained Robert Stroud's cell.
1189
02:11:09,261 --> 02:11:10,261
You.
1190
02:11:11,138 --> 02:11:12,738
Hapling.
1191
02:11:13,933 --> 02:11:14,964
Come here.
1192
02:11:20,064 --> 02:11:22,306
Come here, you fink.
1193
02:11:34,412 --> 02:11:36,012
Open it.
1194
02:12:19,667 --> 02:12:22,123
We're takin' over!
1195
02:13:23,315 --> 02:13:27,609
Call the coastguard and tell him to start
circling the island with patrol boats.
1196
02:13:27,736 --> 02:13:32,979
I wanna talk to the commanding officer
on Treasure Island, the chief of police,
1197
02:13:33,117 --> 02:13:35,156
and the FBI.
1198
02:13:54,389 --> 02:13:57,840
I'll have a statement
for the press by midnight.
1199
02:13:57,976 --> 02:13:58,976
Yes.
1200
02:14:07,277 --> 02:14:11,191
The frenzied plan of escape
was hopeless from the beginning.
1201
02:14:11,322 --> 02:14:14,442
It was predicated on getting
the key to the exercise yard,
1202
02:14:14,576 --> 02:14:18,027
which would at least allow
the prisoners to get out in the open.
1203
02:14:18,163 --> 02:14:21,413
When this failed,
they knew they were doomed.
1204
02:14:21,541 --> 02:14:23,784
After a brief outburst of destruction,
1205
02:14:23,919 --> 02:14:27,454
the prisoners settled
into a mood of quiet despair.
1206
02:14:27,590 --> 02:14:32,667
Shoemaker had no way of knowing that
the weapons possessed by the mutineers
1207
02:14:32,803 --> 02:14:38,557
totalled one rifle and one revolver,
with 71 rounds of ammunition.
1208
02:16:12,071 --> 02:16:14,111
He's hurt bad. He's hurt bad.
1209
02:16:16,701 --> 02:16:18,740
Go back! Go back!
1210
02:16:31,924 --> 02:16:36,005
The kid needs help.
You know somethin' about medicine.
1211
02:16:36,138 --> 02:16:37,138
Help?
1212
02:16:42,853 --> 02:16:45,225
Try and snap out of it.
1213
02:16:45,355 --> 02:16:47,811
Snap out of it, you punchy old bum!
1214
02:16:49,610 --> 02:16:51,649
Now hold on.
1215
02:16:53,947 --> 02:16:56,403
- Where's he hit?
- In the gut.
1216
02:17:02,080 --> 02:17:03,880
Let's go.
1217
02:17:26,564 --> 02:17:27,845
Turn on the PA system.
1218
02:17:32,070 --> 02:17:34,109
All for nothin'.
1219
02:17:34,739 --> 02:17:38,653
- How do you feel, kid?
- How do you think I feel? I'm dyin'.
1220
02:17:45,208 --> 02:17:47,247
Good femoral pulse.
1221
02:17:57,929 --> 02:18:00,135
There's not much bleeding.
1222
02:18:00,265 --> 02:18:05,260
I don't believe it hit a big artery.
It may have pierced the gut.
1223
02:18:08,107 --> 02:18:09,518
Colour's not bad.
1224
02:18:09,650 --> 02:18:15,237
Now listen to this. Men in "D" block,
this is Warden Shoemaker.
1225
02:18:16,240 --> 02:18:18,731
You haven't got a chance, you hear me?
1226
02:18:18,868 --> 02:18:21,537
You had better surrender your arms.
1227
02:18:27,501 --> 02:18:29,541
This'll all be over soon.
1228
02:18:29,670 --> 02:18:33,169
They'll get you to a hospital.
You got a good chance.
1229
02:18:34,008 --> 02:18:36,463
I'm doin' 25. I'll get grey-headed.
1230
02:18:37,928 --> 02:18:41,013
- What do I have to live for?
- You just lie quiet.
1231
02:18:42,016 --> 02:18:44,341
I'm fed up with this life.
1232
02:18:44,477 --> 02:18:48,606
You don't know what I'm goin' through,
old man. I'm sick of it.
1233
02:18:51,610 --> 02:18:53,768
I hope to God I do die.
1234
02:18:56,740 --> 02:18:59,409
Never had a real good day all my life.
1235
02:19:01,495 --> 02:19:02,495
Life.
1236
02:19:05,415 --> 02:19:07,657
Who needs it?
1237
02:19:07,793 --> 02:19:11,790
You're just a kid.
You got your whole future ahead of you.
1238
02:19:13,173 --> 02:19:15,628
Knock it off, will ya?
1239
02:19:16,968 --> 02:19:21,547
How dare you lie there
and talk about dyin' at your age.
1240
02:19:27,145 --> 02:19:28,145
Bull.
1241
02:19:49,210 --> 02:19:51,249
The kid wasn't hurt that bad.
1242
02:19:54,382 --> 02:19:56,421
How the hell do you know?
1243
02:19:57,385 --> 02:20:01,085
I tell you, he might have lived
if he'd put up a fight.
1244
02:20:01,222 --> 02:20:06,561
What's wrong with knocking yourself off
in a maggot pile like this?
1245
02:20:06,686 --> 02:20:09,355
- What?
- I said what's wrong with dyin'?
1246
02:20:18,866 --> 02:20:20,905
What's wrong with dying?
1247
02:20:23,829 --> 02:20:28,372
Cos life's too precious a gift, that's why.
1248
02:20:29,543 --> 02:20:32,164
Because the first duty of life is to live.
1249
02:20:32,296 --> 02:20:37,586
Prisoners of "D" block,
this is your last chance.
1250
02:20:37,718 --> 02:20:42,510
Show a white sheet at the window,
or we'll commence firing again.
1251
02:22:08,227 --> 02:22:10,266
Warden Shoemaker.
1252
02:22:20,322 --> 02:22:22,362
Warden Shoemaker.
1253
02:22:23,701 --> 02:22:24,946
Are you there?
1254
02:22:26,495 --> 02:22:27,777
Give me the bullhorn.
1255
02:22:30,125 --> 02:22:32,164
Can you hear me, Warden?
1256
02:22:36,131 --> 02:22:38,207
Harvey, this is Bob Stroud.
1257
02:22:40,177 --> 02:22:41,552
I can hear you, Stroud.
1258
02:22:44,055 --> 02:22:46,095
Then watch this.
1259
02:23:02,908 --> 02:23:09,076
There are now no more guns in "D" block.
You can call off your marines, Harvey.
1260
02:23:09,206 --> 02:23:11,245
This is isn't Iwo Jima.
1261
02:23:13,711 --> 02:23:16,167
What about Logue and Burns?
1262
02:23:17,048 --> 02:23:19,087
They're dead.
1263
02:23:20,510 --> 02:23:25,218
Of course, if you wanna kill us all,
you can drop a small atom bomb.
1264
02:23:27,934 --> 02:23:31,433
How do I know there are
no more guns up there?
1265
02:23:37,318 --> 02:23:39,774
Because I give you my word.
1266
02:23:44,826 --> 02:23:49,571
I think it'll be safe to enter "D" block now.
There'll be no more firing.
1267
02:23:50,248 --> 02:23:53,118
Sir, you gonna take
the word of one convict?
1268
02:23:54,377 --> 02:23:57,877
That one convict's been
a thorn in my side for 35 years.
1269
02:23:59,800 --> 02:24:04,343
But I'll give him one thing.
He's never lied to me.
1270
02:24:11,895 --> 02:24:15,181
Warden Shoemaker died in 1953.
1271
02:24:15,315 --> 02:24:18,150
My book was published two years later.
1272
02:24:18,277 --> 02:24:21,396
It is not known if its publication
and the ensuing protests
1273
02:24:21,530 --> 02:24:23,902
influenced the decision of authorities,
1274
02:24:24,032 --> 02:24:28,778
but in 1959 the old man was finally
allowed to leave the Rock.
1275
02:24:29,496 --> 02:24:33,624
It was not a release, however,
but a transfer to another prison.
1276
02:24:37,004 --> 02:24:40,374
Mr Stroud, how does it feel
to get off the Rock?
1277
02:24:40,508 --> 02:24:43,794
Well, If you San Franciscans
had any true civic pride,
1278
02:24:43,928 --> 02:24:48,804
you'd blow that place outta the water
instead of advertising it. What an eyesore.
1279
02:24:48,933 --> 02:24:51,222
Is it true you've never seen
a television set?
1280
02:24:51,352 --> 02:24:54,852
Yes, but from what I hear,
I haven't missed very much.
1281
02:24:54,981 --> 02:24:59,892
If you're paroled, do you think
you can adjust to the modern world?
1282
02:25:00,028 --> 02:25:03,361
Why? What's so special
about your modern world, son?
1283
02:25:06,242 --> 02:25:10,536
Boeing 707. Weighs 247,000lb.
1284
02:25:10,663 --> 02:25:12,822
Carries a payload of 22,000.
1285
02:25:12,957 --> 02:25:15,958
Each engine has a thrust of 13,000lb.
1286
02:25:16,085 --> 02:25:18,956
Cruises at 595 miles an hour.
1287
02:25:19,088 --> 02:25:22,173
Just because a man's in prison
doesn't mean he's a boob.
1288
02:25:22,300 --> 02:25:24,922
Will you work with birds
where you're going?
1289
02:25:25,054 --> 02:25:28,802
I'm afraid not.
In the eyes of the prison bureau,
1290
02:25:28,933 --> 02:25:33,180
avian research is, as you boys
might put it, for the birds.
1291
02:25:33,312 --> 02:25:34,806
All right.
1292
02:25:34,939 --> 02:25:40,229
Just one more question. Do you have
any particular project in mind?
1293
02:25:40,361 --> 02:25:43,527
Nothing specific.
I pass the time profitably.
1294
02:25:43,656 --> 02:25:46,573
I read a great deal, reflect.
1295
02:25:46,700 --> 02:25:50,319
I might even spend a pleasant hour
measuring the size of a cloud.
1296
02:25:50,454 --> 02:25:53,124
- Thanks, Mr Stroud.
- Good luck to you.
1297
02:26:03,592 --> 02:26:05,632
Can I have a minute, Mike?
1298
02:26:19,192 --> 02:26:21,944
You must be Tom Gaddis.
1299
02:26:22,070 --> 02:26:24,526
That's right, Mr Stroud.
1300
02:26:24,656 --> 02:26:28,654
I heard you were getting a transfer.
I thought I might get a chance to see you.
1301
02:26:28,785 --> 02:26:31,822
You know me well enough to call me Bob.
1302
02:26:31,955 --> 02:26:35,869
- How did you know it was me?
- An old con's instinct.
1303
02:26:37,335 --> 02:26:41,713
Bob, I was hoping when we met
it might be under different circumstances.
1304
02:26:41,840 --> 02:26:43,833
What circumstances?
1305
02:26:43,967 --> 02:26:46,458
A release, not a transfer. I'm sorry.
1306
02:26:46,595 --> 02:26:50,924
Don't be a square, Tom. I'm going
to Springfield, and do you know what?
1307
02:26:51,057 --> 02:26:54,344
I'm going to sleep in a room
without a lock on the door. Think of it.
1308
02:26:54,479 --> 02:26:57,894
To be able to walk in and out
of a room any time you want.
1309
02:26:58,024 --> 02:27:00,182
They got 400 acres up there.
1310
02:27:00,318 --> 02:27:05,110
I can walk a half a mile, maybe,
without once turning a corner. Imagine.
1311
02:27:05,490 --> 02:27:10,282
Don't be sorry, Tom. It's gonna be
a swell place to live till I get my release.
1312
02:27:10,703 --> 02:27:13,574
I know. Live it one day at a time.
1313
02:27:13,706 --> 02:27:17,075
You said it, kid. Soar like a bird.
1314
02:27:17,210 --> 02:27:19,286
We gotta catch a train, Bob.
1315
02:27:19,420 --> 02:27:21,579
All right, Mike.
1316
02:27:21,714 --> 02:27:23,754
Goodbye, Tom.
1317
02:27:24,550 --> 02:27:26,590
Thanks for helping me.
1318
02:27:46,490 --> 02:27:50,155
Tom, you know what they used to call
Alcatraz in the old days?
1319
02:27:50,285 --> 02:27:52,741
- What?
- Bird Island.
1320
02:28:04,341 --> 02:28:09,715
Robert Stroud's petition for parole
has been denied annually for 24 years.
1321
02:28:10,821 --> 02:28:16,269
Age 72, he is now in
his 53rd year of imprisonment.
1322
02:28:20,400 --> 02:28:23,484
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