The Fixer
Directed by	John Frankenheimer
Screenplay by	Dalton Trumbo
Based on	The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
Produced by	Edward Lewis Productions; John Frankenheimer Productions
Starring	Alan Bates Dirk Bogarde Georgia Brown
Cinematography	Marcel Grignon
Edited by	Henry Berman
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	8 December 1968 (1968-12-08)
Running time	132 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Fixer is a 1968 British drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Georgia Brown. ^[1]

Plot

The film is based on Bernard Malamud's novel The Fixer, which in turn was inspired by the 1913 trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis, a Russian Jew who was falsely accused of having ritually murdered a Ukrainian boy named Andrei Yushchinsky, an example of the Blood Libel. ^{[2] [3]}

Cast

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Despite all the obvious effort and time that has been put into the production, it remains a protracted, and terribly dull, attempt at the 'serious' treatment of a literary subject – the kind of film in which one has to admire much of the acting simply because it is all there is to admire. ... Frankenheimer used a Hungarian crew to make The Fixer. It is just a pity that one of the first really ambitious attempts at East-West co-operation should turn out so limp." ^[4]

Accolades

Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. ^[5]

References

External links

• The Fixer at IMDb
• The Fixer at Rotten Tomatoes

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