great piece of fiction play a if factual . tonight i be look at the birdman of alcatraz . robert stoud be not a model meek prisoner and he be in jail because he be pimp and a customer do not pay up . once he get into jail he be so uncontrollable he spend most of his time in solitary confinement or in the prison hospital . kill a few people in prison too . this movie remind me of the birdman of alcatraz but even bad . robert stroud do write book and he do contribute to society in someway . and the boa have some hint of strouds lunacy . but this guy henry young who murder in the first be suppose to be about be a a known bank robber who take hostage and beat them up in more then one robbery . he wasn not some poor guy who stumble into a grocery store which just happen to be a post office and take some money . this man be a hard core criminal . he also kill a person 3 year before he go to alcatraz . he kill another person in jail not because of the solitary confinement which end over a year before the murder . the real story of his life would of be more interesting . they do not even get the warden thing right . you can not be a warden in 3 different prison at the same time . and by all account the warden in the movie be a pretty stand up guy a warden go . plus if my math be right the warden play by karl malden in the boa be suppose to be the same warden in this movie . oh boy . not only that and in this movie we be to think poor henry commit suicide . and he write the word victory . not true . he might be alive right now . he be send to springfield where robert stroud be also a medical center prison then walla walla for another murder he commit and then be release and jumped parole in 1972 and never to be find . maybe he be hang out with that cb cooper guy who jump out that airplane in washington state after commit a bank robbery lol . now the acting be very good . kevin bacon be in that class of actor which include jeff bridge and dennis quaid and the vastly underrated actor club . gary oldman well they just might of make up the warden part so he could play it because he be great . christian slater still somehow sound like jack nicholson and i be not sure if that be a good thing or not . bacon wife kyra sedgwick be in the movie i think just because she be his wife . i like her though but not in this flick . for some reason i felt this movie when it first come out be suppose to be a special project for kevin bacon . i feel he could of take a person who be truly a victim of the penal system and there sure be enough of them and spread some light on their plight . other then pick a psychopath to show a a victim .