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Refusing to sign a seven-year studio contract, Steiger later turned down the role in the film version in 1955.
Signing a studio contract at that time would " pigeon-hole " Steiger as to the roles he would later play and image portrayed on screen ; those were two things Steiger objected to throughout his career.
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