Word: lichtman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young lions," wrote the prophet Nahum. His words, affixed in epigraph to Irwin Shaw's bestseller of 1948, seemed no more than intellectual makeweight in what proved to be a light package. But the film version of the novel, as conceived and produced by the late Al Lichtman (TIME, March 3), strikes deeper into human substance and rises more often to the epic height of its adage and its argument. Epic is plainly what Moviemaker Lichtman hoped to achieve-a sort of Europead elaborated out of the decisive events and determining attitudes of World War II. He missed...
Died. Al (for Alexander) Lichtman, 69, pioneer film distributor, onetime president of United Artists, vice president of M-G-M and 20th Century-Fox (executive producer of Boys Town, The Wizard of Oz); of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles. Two years ago, ailing from asthma and heart trouble, Hungarian-born Lichtman retired from Fox, holed up in Manhattan's Ritz Tower, quietly went to work on a story which no one wanted. A war novel, it had been kicking around producers' offices for about eight years, was considered too diffuse and sprawling for the screen. Lichtman...