Studs Lonigan
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| Directed by | Irving Lerner |
| Produced by | Philip Yordan |
| Written by | Philip Yordan |
| Starring | Christopher Knight Frank Gorshin Jack Nicholson |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Haskell Wexler |
| Editing by | Verna Fields |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | 1960 |
| Running time | 95 min. |
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Studs Lonigan is the subject of a trilogy of novels by American author James T. Farrell: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day .
In James T. Farrell's classic novels of Irish life on the South Side of Chicago, Farrell portrays sympathetically and graphically his protagonist's coming of age.
The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan helps us understand the virulence of racism and how its unchecked rapacity helped produce and reproduce the ghetto.
The American writer Studs Terkel is nicknamed after Studs Lonigan.
[edit] Studs Lonigan in film and television
The Studs Lonigan story was made into a film in 1960, directed by Irving Lerner and starring Christopher Knight (nee Gerald Medearis; this is not the Christopher Knight of "The Brady Bunch" fame who was only three years old at the time) in the title role. Other cast members included Frank Gorshin, Venetia Stevenson, and Jack Nicholson (in one of his first movie roles).
In 1979 Studs Lonigan was produced as a television miniseries starring Harry Hamlin, Colleen Dewhurst, Brad Dourif, Dan Shor, and Charles Durning. Production Designer Jan Scott won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Limited Series or a Special. Reginald Rose wrote the adaptation of the trilogy.
[edit] External links
- Studs Lonigan (1960 film) at the Internet Movie Database
- Studs Lonigan (1979 television miniseries) at the Internet Movie Database
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