Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999); screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left; recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society structured to undermine their hopes. In the process; he ennobled their struggle. His auspicious beginning in Hollywood reached a zenith with his Oscar-nominated screenplay for Robert Rossens boxing noir; Body and Soul (1947); and his inaugural film as writer and director; Force of Evil (1948); before he was blacklisted during the McCarthy witch hunt. Polonsky envisioned cinema as a modern artist. His aesthetic appreciation for each technical component of the screen aroused him to create voiceovers of urban cadences--poetic monologues spoken by the citys everyman; embodied by the actor who played his heroes best; John Garfield. His use of David Raksins score in Force of Evil; against the backdrop of the grandeur of New York Citys landscape and the conflict between the brothers Joe and Leo Morse; elevated film noir into classical family tragedy. Like Garfield; Polonsky faced persecution and an aborted career during the blacklist. But unlike Garfield; Polonsky survived to resume his career in Hollywood during the ferment of the late sixties. Then his vision of a changing society found allegorical expression in Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here; his impressive anti-Western showing the destruction of the Paiute rebel outsider; Willie Boy; and cementing Polonsky as a moral voice in cinema.
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