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The movie was adapted by Richard Brooks from Lewis' novel, and was directed by Brooks.

It won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Burt Lancaster), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Shirley Jones) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. It was also nominated for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best PictureThe Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in.

When the movie first played on televisionSee TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television p, the entire subplot involving Shirley Jones as a prostitute (even though she had won an Academy Award for the part) was cut out, because it clashed with her then-wholesome image as the mother from The Partridge FamilyThe Partridge Family was an American television sitcom about a widowed mother and her five children who traveled around in a very colorful bus to different venues to perform songs. The series originally ran from 1970 until 1974 on the ABC television netwo.