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By Douglass K. Daniel

ISBN-10: 0299251241

ISBN-13: 9780299251246

Called “God’s indignant guy” for his unyielding calls for in pursuit of private and creative freedom, Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Brooks introduced us a number of the mid-twentieth century’s such a lot iconic motion pictures, together with Blackboard Jungle, Cat on a scorching Tin Roof, Elmer Gantry, In chilly Blood, and searching for Mr. Goodbar. “The vital thing,” he as soon as remarked, “is to jot down your tale, to make it plausible, to make it live.” His personal lifestyles tale hasn't ever been totally chronicled, until eventually now.

Tough as Nails: The existence and flicks of Richard Brooks restores to significance the profession of a prickly iconoclast who sought realism and fact in his movies. Douglass ok. Daniel explores how the writer-director made it from the slums of Philadelphia to the heights of the Hollywood elite, operating with the pinnacle stars of the day, between them Humphrey Bogart, Cary supply, Elizabeth Taylor, Jean Simmons, Sidney Poitier, Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, and Diane Keaton. Brooks dramatized social matters and depicted characters in clash with their very own values, profitable an Academy Award for his Elmer Gantry screenplay and incomes nominations for an additional seven Oscars for guiding and screenwriting.

Tough as Nails deals illuminating insights into Brooks’s existence, drawing on unpublished studio memos and records and interviews from stars and co-workers, together with Poitier, director Paul Mazursky, and Simmons, who used to be married to Brooks for 20 years. Daniel takes readers behind the curtain of Brooks’s significant movies and sheds mild on their making, their compromises, and their universal threads. Tough as Nails celebrates Brooks’s imaginative and prescient whereas including to the serious figuring out of his works, their flaws in addition to their advantages, and depicting the tumults and developments within the lifetime of a guy who regularly stored his personal compass.

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