I haven't. I was also wondering if there was an english language screenplay of the original play. I think there was one years ago but its no longer available... anywhere. Also, anyone know if there are plans to make one - there's plans to make most things so it doesn't seem unlikely.
shareYeah, I'm playing eddie in my universities version of the play, so I wanted to see if Ic aould find a copy. It was recently put on VHS by a company called Nostalgia Family Video. I ordered it online, and watched it. It has a major difference from the play though in that Eddie was an illegal immigrant too. Whcih is something so completely far fetched and away from the play it almsot takes the movie down a notch. I'm not sure as to why you'd want a copy of the Movie Script, especially when the play version is much better and truer to Miller's Vision. Anyway, you can find it online, it'll cost you about $20 American, but I wouldn't highly reccomend it.
~JY Hash
I've watched the movie when it came out in 1962 and as recently as yesterday. I acquired the VHS tape last week. I don't know what you looked at, but in the movie I watched (on the big screen in 1962 and most recently on VHS), Eddie was definitely not an illegal immigrant. In fact, the mvie I say was muhc better than the play. All of the stars, especially Raf Vallone and Carol Lawrence, but also Maureen Stapleton, Raymond Pellegrin and Jean Sorel) were magnificnet. The movie script fleshed out- for the better- many of the scenes in the play (which I've read). It is one of the best films I've ever seen.
I bought my VHS tape from Movies Unlimited. If you saw a tape where Eddie was an illegal immigrant, there are the following possibilities: (1) you watched a different film; or (2) you were asleep when you watched the film.
I saw it when it first came out- over 40 years ago. I'd love to see it again. I remember that Raf Vallone was very good, as was a young and sexy Carol Lawrence. I don't know why Carol didn't continue making films.
shareActually, there's a specific line in the film (one that was not in the play)saying that life in america for Rudolpho would be worse than when Eddie came to America. So maybe he didn't come over Illegally, but his accent and background definetly made him at least a 1st generation immigrant in the film...whereas in the play he was second generation (as stated after Eddie comes home in Act I)and the textual style he was written in was a straight brooklyn accent.
Trust me: I needed to research my character. That's what I found.
~JYH
Saw that about a year ago on the big screen at the MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (Gramercy Theater) in New York. It was a rare extant 35mm print and thought the film was explosive. Special mention to RAF VALLONE and MAUREEN STAPLETON -- they gave great performances.
Edmund Burke, father of modern conservative thought, has much to answer for -- after he's through spinning in his grave, that is!
i remember seeing it in nyc in 1976--it played for a short time at a theater that was doing a retrospective of sidney lumet, just before 'network' was due to premiere there. absolutely great. i had never seen raf vallone in a movie before--he was fantastic, as was the entire cast. it was like getting hit by a freight train--i'd love to see it again.
shareYes, I saw it when it first came out in 1962. It made a great impression, especially the performances of Raf Vallone and Carol Lawrence. I finally saw it again more than 40 years later when I bought a flawed VHS tape around 2006 from Movies Unlimited. There was a lot of snow in some of the scenes and other deficiencies in both the audio and the film. But I knew the story and so was still able to enjoy it.
For several years there was a rumored remake with Anthony Lepaglia as Eddie (the Raf Vallone role) and Scarlett Johannsen the Carol Lawrence role. I don't know why it didn't come off. I doubt that Lepaglia would have been as good as Vallone, but he is an interesting actor, and he could have pulled it off. I think he has been playing it on the stage. Maybe it will still happen. Or maybe it has happened with different actors.
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