- Studs Lonigan
Infobox_Film
name = Studs Lonigan (film)
image_size= 150px
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director =Irving Lerner
producer = Philip Yordan
writer =Philip Yordan
starring =Christopher Knight
Frank Gorshin
Jack Nicholson
music =Jerry Goldsmith
cinematography =Haskell Wexler
editing =Verna Fields
distributor =MGM
released = 1960
runtime = 95 min.
language =
budget =
imdb_id = 0054348|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.tuds Lonigan in film and television
The "Studs Lonigan" story was made into a film in
1960 , directed byIrving Lerner and starringChristopher 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 includedFrank Gorshin ,Venetia Stevenson , andJack Nicholson (in one of his first movie roles).In
1979 "Studs Lonigan" was produced as atelevision miniseries starringHarry Hamlin ,Colleen Dewhurst ,Brad Dourif ,Dan Shor , andCharles Durning . Production Designer Jan Scott won anEmmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Limited Series or a Special.Reginald Rose wrote the adaptation of the trilogy.External links
*imdb_title|title=Studs Lonigan (1960 film)|id=0054348
*imdb_title|title=Studs Lonigan (1979 television miniseries)|id=0078696
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