AN AMERICAN DREAM, 1966, Warner Bros., 103 min. The big studio adaptation of Norman Mailer’s bestseller. Stuart Whitman is a TV talk show host exposing LAPD corruption and is suddenly accused of his wife’s murder. A lurid hybrid of film noir, exposé and New Hollywood brio. Co-starring Eleanor Parker (CAGED), Janet Leigh, Barry Sullivan.
LET NO MAN WRITE MY EPITAPH, 1960, Sony Repertory, 105 min. Philip Leacock (“Route 66”) helms this sequel to Nicholas Ray’s KNOCK ON ANY DOOR. James Darren is the son of that film’s Nick Romano, living in a Chicago slum and loved by nice girl, Jean Seberg. He tries to make good, but there are stumbling blocks, including widowed, junkie mom, Shelley Winters, and drug dealer, Ricardo Montalban. Ella Fitzgerald is another addict. With Burl Ives.