Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)

Directed by

Philip Leacock

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man wants to leave his poor neighborhood where crime is common. His mother and some neighbors help him try to change his life for the better.

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What happens

Let No Man Write My Epitaph is a 1960 American social problem crime film directed by Philip Leacock and starring Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren, Jean Seberg, Ricardo Montalbán and Ella Fitzgerald. The screenplay was by Robert Presnell Jr. based on the 1958 novel of the same title by Willard Motley. It is a sequel to the 1949 film Knock on Any Door, also based on a Motley novel. The story concerns the son of an executed criminal who aspires to escape his impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhood with the help of his mother and a group of concerned neighbors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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