By British standards, American jails seem to be extraordinarily tough. Yet, paradoxically, prisoners in the US are occasionally afforded facilities they would never get over here. An example of this is the case of Robert Stroud, the Bird Man of Alcatraz. He was allowed all the books and equipment he needed to become an expert on birds while he was serving a life sentence. And here is the case of David Marshall Williams who, while serving 30 years for manslaughter, was allowed to make a revolutionary type of gun. His story is told in Carbine Williams, and the tale is authentic in almost every detail, for the real-life Williams worked on the film as a technical adviser. Playing the film Williams, James Stewart gives a predictably sturdy, sincere performance.


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