Director: Sidney Lumet

Writer: Herbert Sargent

From novel: To an Early Grave by Wallace Markfield

Music by: Peter Matz

Producer: Sidney Lumet

Keywords: Comedy

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Sorrell Booke	Actor	4-Jan-1930	11-Feb-1994	Boss Hogg on Dukes of Hazzard
Godfrey Cambridge	Actor	26-Feb-1933	29-Nov-1976	Cotton Comes to Harlem
Graham Jarvis	Actor	25-Aug-1930	16-Apr-2003	Canadian-American character actor
Alan King	Comic	26-Dec-1927	9-May-2004	Jewish comic and Friars Club fixture
Zohra Lampert	Actor	13-May-1937		Let's Scare Jessica to Death
George Segal	Actor	13-Feb-1934		Fun with Dick and Jane
Jessica Walter	Actor	31-Jan-1941		Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development
Jack Warden	Actor	18-Sep-1920	19-Jul-2006	12 Angry Men
Joseph Wiseman	Actor	15-May-1918	19-Oct-2009	Dr. No

CAST

starring
George Segal	...   Morroe Rieff
Jack Warden	...   Barnet Weiner
Joseph Wiseman	...   Felix Ottensteen
Sorrell Booke	...   Holly Levine
Jessica Walter	...   Inez Braverman
Phyllis Newman	...   Myra Mandelbaum
Zohra Lampert	...   Etta Rieff
Godfrey Cambridge	...   Cab Driver
and
Alan King	...   The Rabbi
with
Anthony Holland	...   Max Ottensteen
Graham Jarvis	...   Man on Bus
Peter Gumeny	...   Supporting Cast
Susan Wyler	...   Pilar
Leib Linsky	...   Custodian

REVIEWS

Review by Barry Rosenberg (posted on 16-Jul-2007)

It's difficult to believe that there are people who find flaws in this film. The peculiar behavior of Elaine May as the not-too-upset widow, the disgruntled annoyance on the George Segal character, Joseph Wiseman as the disgusted Jew who must ride in a GERMAN car... the old VW Beetle owned by the Sorrel Brooke character... a failed author who is harassed by kids on the street messing with his beloved VW. The film peaks in two ways... George Segal's soliloquy in the cemetery, telling the dead beneath the headstones about the sad state of society since they died. Finally, everything by Godfrey Cambridge is good. A black cab driver speaking with Jewish phrases and cadence is so right for a black raised in a Jewish community. All in all, it's a tremendously successful satire, and I dearly wish I could buy a DVD of it... but it seems nobody realizes what a great film it is, and therefore nobody has marketed a DVD. Sad, sad, sad. It's a great film if you have an open mind.

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