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.

Director Stanley Kubrick was originally interested in a film adaptation of the novel in the 1960s, but blacklisted director Abraham Polonsky had already optioned it.

The film was adapted by Abraham Polonsky and Ira Wolfert from Wolfert's novel Tucker's People.

In 2003 an extensive collection of articles from the Polish debate, in English translation, was compiled by Joanna Michlic and Professor Antony Polonsky of Brandeis University and published under the title ‘ The Neighbors Respond .’

A grant was provided by the London-based Polonsky Foundation.

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.

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.

It is known that Polonsky, along with Nelson Gidding, co-wrote Odds Against Tomorrow ( 1959 ), in which Polonsky's name was initially dropped from the film credits.

Polonsky was not given public credit for the screenplay until 1997, when the Writers Guild of America, west officially restored his name to the film under the WGA screenwriting credit system.

In 1968, Polonsky was the screenwriter for Madigan, a police noir, and Polonsky used his own name in the credits.

Until his death, Polonsky was a virulent critic of director Elia Kazan, who had testified before HUAC and provided names to the Committee.

Polonsky also said that his latest project was designing a movable headstone: " That way if they bury that man in the same cemetery, they can move me.

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 ).

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 ).

* Stanislav Rostotsky, Boris Dulenkov, Vyacheslav Shumsky, Nina Menshikova, Georgi Polonsky, and Vyacheslav Tikhonov for the film We'll Live Till Monday

A Marxist until his death, Polonsky publicly objected when director Irwin Winkler rewrote his script for 1991's Guilty by Suspicion, a film about the Hollywood blacklist era, by revising the lead character ( Robert De Niro ) into a liberal, rather than a Communist.

Thom Andersen interviewed Polonsky in the 1990s about the events of the Hollywood Ten years for his film Red Hollywood.

* Received Polonsky Fiction Prize, 1983, for " Bad / Night / Vision ".

The inspiration of mixing the mythical Firebird with the unrelated Russian tale of Kaschei the deathless possibly came from a popular child's verse by Yakov Polonsky, " A Winter's Journey " ( Zimniy put, 1844 ), which includes the lines:

The book includes the film's complete script ( which " blends " the shooting script and the continuity script ), and critical analysis, written by CSUN professor John Schultheiss, based on interviews with Wise, Belafonte and Polonsky.

She joined the Russian Literary Society ( based on Nevsky, 38 ), became a member of the Shakespearean Circle ( which counted the celebrity lawyer Prince Alexander Urusov as a core member ), began personal friendships with influential figures like Yakov Polonsky, Apollon Maykov, Dmitry Grigorovich, Aleksey Plescheev and Pyotr Weinberg, and drifted into the rapidly changing Severny Vestnik clique where she made her major debut as a poet in 1888.

Belafonte selected Abraham Polonsky to write the script, which is based on a novel by William P. McGivern.

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.

Polonsky died on October 26, 1999, in Beverly Hills, California, aged 88.

SNOBOL ( StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language ) is a series of computer programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT & T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4.

According to Dave Farber, he, Griswold and Polonsky " finally arrived at the name Symbolic EXpression Interpreter SEXI.

" A professor of Jewish history at Brandeis University, Antony Polonsky, said that his " research appears to be sound ", but he and other reviewers have questioned the " extent of Jewish persecution of Germans ", in Sack's book.

Polonsky in Call of Duty: World at War.

Prior to that, Polonsky taught a philosophy class at USC School of Cinema-Television called " Consciousness and Content ".

Screenplays by Polonsky and Howard Koch were never made into a film.

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.

After a prolonged absence, Polonsky returned to directing in 1969 with the Western film Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, a tale of a fugitive Native American pursued by a posse, which Polonsky converted into an allegory about racism, genocide, and persecution.

* 1910 – Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter ( d. 1999 )

* Griswold, Ralph E., J. F. Poage, and I. P. Polonsky.

** Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter and director ( b. 1910 )

* Polonsky, A., & Michlic, J.

in Rachel Polonsky, English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance UP, 1998.

with Antony Polonsky, Blackwell Publishing, ISBN 1-55786-213-3.

* Stewart P ( 2008 ): " The Adrenal Cortex " In: Kronenberg, Melmed, Polonsky, Larsen ( eds.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Prof. Antony Polonsky wrote: " Coren is incorrect to state that there have been no attempts to deal with the complex and painful Polish-Jewish past.