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Abraham Polonsky was a cinematic genius, in my view, a writer, and ciritquer of the unjust aspects of US policies and practices, and got netted in the trap of HUAC. Note some of his film productions,novels, and screenplays and the article referenced. I consider men such as him enhances the growth of us all with his exposes of microsocopic truth.
For further reading: A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left by Paul Buhle, Dave Wagner (2001); Literature Film Quarterly Vol. XXIV (1996); Musta käytävä by Matti Salo foreword by Abraham Polonsky (1991); Radical Innocence by Bernard F. Dick (1989); The Director's Event: Interviews With Five American Film-Makers by Eric Sherman & Martin Rubin (1970); Creative Differences by Barbara Zheutin and David Talbot (1978); Directing the Film by Ed Sherman (1976) - See also: Hollywood blacklist - Other blacklisted screenwriters: Paul Jarrico, Michael Wilson, Hugo Butler, Dalton Trumbo.
Selected films as screenwriter:
GOLDEN EARRINGS,1947 (co-sc.)
BODY AND SOUL, 1947 - remade in 1981 and for TV in 1998.
I CAN GET IT TO YOU WHOLESALE, 1951
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW, 1959 (uncredited, novel by William P. McGivern)
MADIGAN, 1968
AVALANCHE EXPRESS, 1979
MONSIGNOR, 1982 (co-sc.)
MOMMIE DEAREST, 1981 (uncredited)
BODY AND SOUL, 1981 (from Polonsky's original screenplay)
As director-screenwriter:
FORCE OF EVIL, 1948 (based on Ira Wolfert's novel Tucker's People)
TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE, 1970 (based on Harry Lawton's novel)
ROMANCE OF A HORSETHIEF, 1971 (screenplay by David Opatoshu, based on his father's novel)
Novels, essays, and plays:
THE GOOSE IS COOKED,1940 (with Mitchell A Wilson - pseudonym Emmett Hogarth)
THE ENEMY SEA, 1943 (novel)
THE CASE OF DAVID SMITH, 1946 (radio play)
PIÉCE DE RÉSISTANCE, 1945, 1947-50, 1981 (play)
A LITTLE FIRE, 1946 (short story)
THE MARVELOUS BOY, 1946 (short story)
THE WORLD ABOVE, 1951 (novel)
HEMINGWAY AND CHAPLIN, 1953 (essay)
A SEASON OF FEAR, 1956 (novel)
UNE EXPÉRIENCE UTOPIQUE, 1962 (essay)
HOW THE BLACKLIST WORKED IN HOLLYWOOD, 1970 (essay)
MAKING MOVIES, 1971 (essay)
ZENIA´S WAY, 1980 (novel)
CHILDREN OF EDEN, 1982 (unfinished novel)
TO ILLUMINATE OUR TIME: THE BLACKLISTED TELEPLAYS OF ABRAHAM POLONSKY, 1993
Unproduced screenplays:
THE PARIS STORY, 1945-45
THE WAYFARERS, 1946
MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN, 1950-58 (based on Thomas Mann's novel)
REVIVAL (in the 1950s with Walter Bernstein)
THE GLADIATORS, 1958-60 (based on Arthur Koestler's novel from 1938)
MAD KING PAUL, 1959
THE BROTHERS, 1959-71
THE JAMAICA STORY (in the 1960s)
KING FISHER'S ROAD, 1966-67
CHILDHOOD'S END, 1967-75 (based on Arthur C. Clarke's novel from 1953)
WASAJA, 1960/1970
O JERUSALEM, 1976 (based on Larry Collins's and Dominique Lapierre's book from 1972)
THE MAN WHO LIVED AT THE RITZ, 1982 (produced in England in 1988, not based on Polonsky's script)
ASSASSINATION ON EMBASSY ROW, 1982
SEASON OF FEAR, 1985-89 (produced in 1991 under the title Guilty By Suspicion, Polonsky withdrew from the project)
GOLDEN EARRINGS,1947 (co-sc.)
BODY AND SOUL, 1947 - remade in 1981 and for TV in 1998.
I CAN GET IT TO YOU WHOLESALE, 1951
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW, 1959 (uncredited, novel by William P. McGivern)
MADIGAN, 1968
AVALANCHE EXPRESS, 1979
MONSIGNOR, 1982 (co-sc.)
MOMMIE DEAREST, 1981 (uncredited)
BODY AND SOUL, 1981 (from Polonsky's original screenplay)
As director-screenwriter:
FORCE OF EVIL, 1948 (based on Ira Wolfert's novel Tucker's People)
TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE, 1970 (based on Harry Lawton's novel)
ROMANCE OF A HORSETHIEF, 1971 (screenplay by David Opatoshu, based on his father's novel)
Novels, essays, and plays:
THE GOOSE IS COOKED,1940 (with Mitchell A Wilson - pseudonym Emmett Hogarth)
THE ENEMY SEA, 1943 (novel)
THE CASE OF DAVID SMITH, 1946 (radio play)
PIÉCE DE RÉSISTANCE, 1945, 1947-50, 1981 (play)
A LITTLE FIRE, 1946 (short story)
THE MARVELOUS BOY, 1946 (short story)
THE WORLD ABOVE, 1951 (novel)
HEMINGWAY AND CHAPLIN, 1953 (essay)
A SEASON OF FEAR, 1956 (novel)
UNE EXPÉRIENCE UTOPIQUE, 1962 (essay)
HOW THE BLACKLIST WORKED IN HOLLYWOOD, 1970 (essay)
MAKING MOVIES, 1971 (essay)
ZENIA´S WAY, 1980 (novel)
CHILDREN OF EDEN, 1982 (unfinished novel)
TO ILLUMINATE OUR TIME: THE BLACKLISTED TELEPLAYS OF ABRAHAM POLONSKY, 1993
Unproduced screenplays:
THE PARIS STORY, 1945-45
THE WAYFARERS, 1946
MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN, 1950-58 (based on Thomas Mann's novel)
REVIVAL (in the 1950s with Walter Bernstein)
THE GLADIATORS, 1958-60 (based on Arthur Koestler's novel from 1938)
MAD KING PAUL, 1959
THE BROTHERS, 1959-71
THE JAMAICA STORY (in the 1960s)
KING FISHER'S ROAD, 1966-67
CHILDHOOD'S END, 1967-75 (based on Arthur C. Clarke's novel from 1953)
WASAJA, 1960/1970
O JERUSALEM, 1976 (based on Larry Collins's and Dominique Lapierre's book from 1972)
THE MAN WHO LIVED AT THE RITZ, 1982 (produced in England in 1988, not based on Polonsky's script)
ASSASSINATION ON EMBASSY ROW, 1982
SEASON OF FEAR, 1985-89 (produced in 1991 under the title Guilty By Suspicion, Polonsky withdrew from the project)
