Synopsis

Filled with humor and defining experiences in both his own life and in the lives of some of his closest friends, William Faulkner and Robert Aldrich, as well as on his late wife, screenwriter Silvia Richards, Mr. Bezzerides offers colorful reflections as to why he and his typewriter unabashedly need to keep creating honest characters, worlds, and stories. Through recently discovered boxes of photographs, film clips, the haunting music by Fugazi, interviews (including Jules Dassin, Mickey Spillane and Barry Gifford) and testaments to his progressive creativity from other writers, Fay Lellios' straight-ahead documentary gives us a start in discovering this 97-year-old proletariat storyteller, and the meaning of his favorite phrase by Carl Jung, "There can be no birth of consciousness without pain."

Main Cast

Jason Baldwin

Narrator

Age : N/A | Popularity : 22%

Jules Dassin

Narrator

Age : N/A | Popularity : 21%

Barry Gifford

Narrator

Age : N/A | Popularity : 16%

George Pelecanos

Narrator

Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%

Mickey Spillane

Narrator

Age : N/A | Popularity : 9%

A.I. Bezzerides

Himself

Age : 98 | Popularity : 15%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Fay Lellios
Production	Executive Producer	Bill Durkin Ted Pedas Jim Pedas H. Michael Heuser George Pelecanos
	Producer	Fay Lellios Wilton Cruz
Editing	Editor	Wilton Cruz
Crew	Cinematography	Marc Leidy
Sound	Music	Fugazi
Department	Role	Name

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