Movie: Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
Tagline: The Novel That Shocked The World Is Now A Movie.
Trivia: Ralph Bakshi had made a previous attempt to direct the film, a production he was to co-produce with Steve Krantz and &author Hubert Selby Jr. Actor Robert De Niro accepted a major role in the film. However, the project fell apart when Bakshi and Krantz had a falling out. Bakshi and Selby became friends, and, according to Bakshi, they “tried a few other screenplays after that on other subjects, but I could not shake Last Exit from my mind.”
“Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual. Written by Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>”
