The Last Angry Man is a drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 which tells the story of a television producer who profiles the life of a physician. It stars Paul Muni

Paul Muni

Paul Muni was an Austrian-Hungarian-born American stage and film actor...

, David Wayne

David Wayne

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, Betsy Palmer

Betsy Palmer

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, Billy Dee Williams

Billy Dee Williams

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 (in his film debut), and Godfrey Cambridge

Godfrey Cambridge

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.

The movie was adapted by Richard Murphy

Richard Murphy (screenwriter)

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 from the novel by Gerald Green

Gerald Green (author)

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, and was directed by Daniel Mann

Daniel Mann

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.

The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor

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 (Paul Muni) and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White

Academy Award for Best Art Direction

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 (Carl Anderson

Carl Anderson (art director)

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, William Kiernan

William Kiernan

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).

The film was remade in 1974 as an ABC Movie of the Week

ABC Movie of the Week

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, with Pat Hingle

Pat Hingle

Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle was an American actor.-Early life:Hingle was born Martin Patterson Hingle in Miami, Florida, the son of Marvin Louise , a schoolteacher and musician, and Clarence Martin Hingle, a building contractor. Hingle enlisted in the U.S. Navy in December 1941, dropping out of...

 in the lead role.

Cast

• Paul Muni
  Paul Muni
  Paul Muni was an Austrian-Hungarian-born American stage and film actor...
  
   - Dr. Sam Abelman
• David Wayne
  David Wayne
  David Wayne was an American actor with a career spanning nearly 50 years.-Early life and career:...
  
   - Woodrow Wilson Thrasher
• Betsy Palmer
  Betsy Palmer
  Betsy Palmer is an American actress, best known as a regular panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing Pamela Voorhees in the notorious slasher film Friday the 13th.-Life and career:...
  
   - Anna Thrasher
• Luther Adler
  Luther Adler
  Luther Adler was an American actor best known for his work in theatre, but who also worked in film and television. He also directed plays on Broadway.-Life and career:...
  
   - Dr. Max Vogel
• Joby Baker
  Joby Baker
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   - Myron Malkin
• Joanna Moore - Alice Taggart
• Nancy R. Pollock - Sarah Abelman
• Billy Dee Williams
  Billy Dee Williams
  William December "Billy Dee" Williams, Jr. is an American actor, artist, singer, and writer.-Early life:Williams was born in New York City, New York, the son of Loretta...
  
   - Josh Quincy
• Claudia McNeil
  Claudia McNeil
  Claudia McNeil was an American actress known for premiering the role of matriarch Lena Younger in both the stage and screen productions of A Raisin in the Sun. She later appeared in a 1981 production of the musical version of the play, Raisin presented by Equity Library Theater...
  
   - Mrs. Quincy
• Godfrey Cambridge
  Godfrey Cambridge
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  - Nobody Home

External links

• The Last Angry Man at IMDB