Playwright and screenwriter George Axelrod was born this day, June 9, 1922. Happy #81.
He wrote the play The Seven Year Itch. He wrote the screenplay for Breakfast at Tiffany's. Most significant to us cool people, he wrote the screenplay for The Manchurian Candidate.
Unreformed hawkish Hoosier hillbilly Al Barger runs the still squeezin' down the psychodelic Kentucky moonshine at More Things. What with the paranoid religious visions, the Pentecostal music, visions of God and anarchy running amok and such, somebody …
The Manchurian Candidate
You will never find a more chillingly suspenseful, perversely funny, or viciously satirical political thriller than The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon (author of Winter Kills). ...
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Seven Year Itch
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