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Birdman of Alcatraz

Birdman of Alcatraz. John Frankenheimer, 1962.
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Edition screened: MGM DVD, released 2001. English language. Runtime approximately 149 minutes.

Summary: Depictions of dead birds.

Details:
1) Burt Lancaster smashes a beetle in order to feed a newborn bird in his jail cell, 30:54-30:56. He kills more insects for the same reason 32:00-32:05.
2) Dead birds are handled compassionately, 1:03:00-1:09:05, as Lancaster struggles to improvise a cure for the Septic Fever that is killing them.