Thomas E Gaddis - Turner Classic Movies

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Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)

Book As Source Material ("Killer: A Journal Of Murder")

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Birdman Of Alcatraz, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I Wrote A Book About This Man

Birdman Of Alcatraz, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) It's Katie Bar The Door

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Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)

Book As Source Material ("Killer: A Journal Of Murder")

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Birdman Of Alcatraz, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I Wrote A Book About This Man First a recorded Alcatraz tour promotion, then Edmond O’Brien, playing Tom Gaddis, who wrote the underlying book, unusually, addressing the camera, as we meet the title character (Burt Lancaster as Robert Stroud), and tough warden Shoemaker (Karl Malden), opening John Frankenheimer’s The Birdman Of Alcatraz, 1962.

Birdman Of Alcatraz, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) It's Katie Bar The Door Already jailed at Leavenworth for one murder, after killing a prison guard who helped prevent his mother’s visit, title character Burt Lancaster is visited by warden Shoemaker (Karl Malden), then Edmond O’Brien’s narration, then the first appearance as Thelma Ritter as mother Elizabeth, in The Birdman Of Alcatraz, 1962.

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