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...BUDDY HOLLY STORY Directed by Steve Rash Screenplay by Robert Gittler
...CHEAP DETECTIVE Directed by Robert Moore Screenplay by Neil Simon
Directed by Sam Peckinpah Screenplay by B. W.L. Norton...
After commissioning and polishing Elaine May's screenplay, Beatty got to work on casting. Possibly the hardest role to fill was that of Mr. Jordan, a heavenly bureaucrat played by Claude Rains in 1941: both Cary Grant and former Senator Eugene McCarthy were talked about for the part before it went to James Mason. Only at the last minute did Beatty decide to try directing for the first time. "I asked Mike [Nichols] and Arthur [Penn], but they were busy," he says. "Then I thought the next best thing would be to do it myself." But Beatty, who becomes deadly...
...Screenplay by Bronte Woodard