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Abraham Lincoln Polonsky ( December 5, 1910-October 26, 1999 ) was an American film director, Academy-Award-nominated screenwriter, essayist, and novelist blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s, in the midst of the McCarthy era.
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* 1910 – Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter ( d. 1999 )
One was an independent distributed by MGM, the industry leader: Force of Evil ( 1948 ), directed by Abraham Polonsky and starring John Garfield, both of whom would be blacklisted in the 1950s.
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Force of Evil is a 1948 film noir directed by Abraham Polonsky who had already achieved a name for himself as a scriptwriter, most notably for the gritty boxing film Body and Soul ( 1947 ).
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He quickly rose in film production as an assistant director, and worked with Jean Renoir, Abraham Polonsky, Joseph Losey and Charlie Chaplin, with the latter as an assistant on Limelight.
The movie, written by Abraham Polonsky and directed by Robert Rossen, is considered the first great film about boxing ; it's also a cautionary tale about the lure of money — and how it can derail even a strong common man in his pursuit of success.
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Abraham Polonsky was born in New York City, the eldest son of Russian-American Jewish immigrants, Henry and Rebecca ( née Rosoff ) Polonsky, he attended DeWitt Clinton High School.
* To Illuminate Our Time: The Blacklisted Teleplays of Abraham Polonsky ( 1993 )
* Archive of American Television Video Interview with Abraham Polonsky
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The movie was written and directed by the once black-listed Abraham Polonsky.
The screenplay — originally titled Friday, Saturday, Sunday — was adapted by two writers who had been blacklisted in the 1950s, Abraham Polonsky and Howard Rodman ( here credited under the pseudonym Henri Simoun ).
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