The Fixer Movie Review 1968

Based on the true story of a Jewish handyman (Bates) in 1911 Tsarist Russia who's accused of murdering a gentile boy. Wrongly imprisoned he's tortured to confess to the crime, which he refuses to do. Bogarde is the lawyer who tries to help him. Strong direction and acting in an unrelenting drama. Adapted from Bernard Malamud's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Distribution

MGM Home Entertainment, 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404-6061, Phone: (310)449-3000, Fax: (310)449-3100, URL: http://www.mgmhomevideo.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 132 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Men in Prison, Judaism, Period Piece: 1910s, Russia/USSR, True Stories, Books to Film: Bernard Malamud

Screenplay

Dalton Trumbo

Cast

Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Elizabeth Hartman, Ian Holm, David Opatoshu, David Warner, Carol White, Murray Melvin, Peter Jeffrey, William Hutt

Director

John Frankenheimer

Music

Maurice Jarre

Producer

Edward Lewis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures