Odds Against Tomorrow: The Critical Edition
- ISBN-10
- 0963582348
- ISBN-13
- 9780963582348
- Series
- Odds Against Tomorrow
- Category
- Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
- Pages
- 326
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Center for Telecommunication Studies, California State University
- Author
- Abraham Polonsky
Description
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), which stars Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Ed Begley, and Gloria Grahame, is written by blacklisted screenwriter Abraham Polonsky and directed by Robert Wise. The last great film noir of the black and white era it reflects the author's strong social conscience as racial conflict is portrayed as central to the failure of a bank robbery. This publication of the complete script blends the shooting script (written before the film was shot) and the continuity script (the elements which are contained in the finished film). The critical analysis draws extensively on specially conducted interviews with Robert Wise, Harry Belafonte and Abraham Polonsky. Discussed in depth are the significance of a black protagonist within the film noir genre; the adaptation from William McGivern's novel; and the critically celebrated jazz score by John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet.
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