The Fixer (1968 film)
1968 British drama film by John Frankenheimer
- Alan Bates
- Dirk Bogarde
- Georgia Brown
Release date
- 8 December 1968 (1968-12-08)
Running time
The Fixer is a 1968 British drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Georgia Brown.[1]
Plot
The film is based on Bernard Malamud's novel The Fixer, which in turn was inspired by the 1913 trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis, a Russian Jew who was falsely accused of having ritually murdered a Ukrainian boy named Andrei Yushchinsky, an example of the Blood Libel.[2][3]
Cast
- Alan Bates as Yakov Shepsovitch Bok
- Dirk Bogarde as Boris Bibikov, investigating magistrate
- Georgia Brown as Marfa Golov
- Hugh Griffith as Lebedev
- Elizabeth Hartman as Zinaida
- Ian Holm as I. N. Grubeshov
- David Opatoshu as Latke
- David Warner as Count Odoevsky
- Carol White as Raisl Bok
- George Murcell as Deputy Warden
- Murray Melvin as Priest
- Peter Jeffrey as Berezhinsky
- Michael Goodliffe as Julius Ostrovsky
- Thomas Heathcote as Proshko
- Mike Pratt as Father Anastasy
- Stanley Meadows as Gronfein
- Francis de Wolff as Warden
- David Lodge as Zhitnyak
Critical reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Despite all the obvious effort and time that has been put into the production, it remains a protracted, and terribly dull, attempt at the 'serious' treatment of a literary subject – the kind of film in which one has to admire much of the acting simply because it is all there is to admire. ... Frankenheimer used a Hungarian crew to make The Fixer. It is just a pity that one of the first really ambitious attempts at East-West co-operation should turn out so limp."[4]
Accolades
Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.[5]
References
- ^ "The Fixer". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ Ebert, Roger. "The Fixer Review". Roger Ebert. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
- ^ "Reviews. The Fixer".
- ^ "The Fixer". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 36 (420): 230. 1 January 1969. ProQuest 1305830594 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "The Fixer". Academy Awards. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
External links
- The Fixer at IMDb
- The Fixer at Rotten Tomatoes
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Works directed by John Frankenheimer
- The Young Stranger (1957)
- The Young Savages (1961)
- All Fall Down (1962)
- Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Seven Days in May (1964)
- The Train (1964)
- Seconds (1966)
- Grand Prix (1966)
- The Fixer (1968)
- The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
- The Gypsy Moths (1969)
- I Walk the Line (1970)
- The Horsemen (1971)
- The Iceman Cometh (1973)
- Impossible Object (1973)
- 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
- French Connection II (1975)
- Black Sunday (1977)
- Prophecy (1979)
- The Challenge (1982)
- The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
- 52 Pick-Up (1986)
- Dead Bang (1989)
- The Fourth War (1990)
- Year of the Gun (1991)
- The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
- Ronin (1998)
- Reindeer Games (2000)
- Portrait in Celluloid (1955)
- Forbidden Area (1956)
- The Troublemakers (1957)
- The Thundering Wave (1957)
- The Last Tycoon (1957)
- The Violent Heart (1958)
- Rumors of Evening (1958)
- Bomber's Moon (1958)
- A Town Has Turned to Dust (1958)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1959)
- The Turn of the Screw (1959)
- Against the Wall (1994)
- The Burning Season (1994)
- Andersonville (1996)
- George Wallace (1997)
- Path to War (2002)
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