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John Frankenheimer: Young Stranger
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ATLANTA (CNN) -- When John Frankenheimer was younger, he didn't dream of a career as a filmmaker. He enjoyed directing live television too much, and built a solid career in that field in the 1950s.
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Frankenheimer worked and apparently thrived within this overall artistic and ideological framework. His first films ( The Young Stranger, The Young Savages, All Fall Down) dealt generally with issues of juvenile delinquency, criminality and the social environment. All Fall Down is a fairly silly work, based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy and a screenplay by William Inge. Warren Beatty plays the impossibly named Berry-Berry Willart, a ne’er-do-well son of a quarrelsome middle class Cleveland couple, who uses his good looks to exploit older women. His abuse of a family friend, Echo O’Brien (Eva Marie Saint), leads to her death and the disillusionment of Berry-Berry’s younger brother.
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By the time Frankenheimer helmed his first feature film, The Young Stranger, in 1957, he was already a seasoned veteran of live TV. Between 1954 and 1960, Frankenheimer directed 152 television dramas, including 42 of the legendary "Playhouse 90" series. He worked with actors as diverse as Mickey Rooney — in "The Comedian" — and John Gielgud, whom Frankenheimer directed in his television debut in "The Browning Version."
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