Boardwalk (film)

Boardwalk is a 1979 American drama film written by Stephen Verona and Leigh Chapman and directed by Verona. It stars Ruth Gordon, Lee Strasberg and Janet Leigh.

Boardwalk
Directed byStephen Verona
Written byLeigh Chapman
Stephen Verona
Produced byGeorge Willoughby
StarringRuth Gordon
Lee Strasberg
Janet Leigh
CinematographyBilly Williams
Edited byThom Noble
Music byWilliam S. Fischer
Michael Kamen
Rob Mounsey
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Production
companies
Stratford
Travellers Films
Distributed byAtlantic Releasing Corporation
Release date
  • November 14, 1979 (1979-11-14)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

The film is about the Rosen family and their struggle with a gang terrorizing their neighborhood in Coney Island.[1] [2][3][4][5][6][7]

Cast

Production

It was filmed on location at numerous spots in Brooklyn, including the famous but now defunct Dubrow's Cafeteria.

It was written by Leigh Chapman and Verona, who were a couple at the time. Chapman later recalled the film as "Amateurish? boring? Strasberg [was] a dreadful actor...I give V[erona] credit for tenacity...[a] British investor who put up the money for the film. He was one of those 'commoner' Brits who created a travel agency and made a lot of money. I don't know how Verona met him or conned him into putting up the money."[8]

Reception

Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote "Boardwalk is otherwise a movie of unrelieved, unexplored gloom".[9]

References
  1. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Stephen-Verona-s--Boardwalk--Finally-Released-on-DVD-and-Blu-ray-March-25th.html
  2. "Boardwalk by Stephen Verona, 1979 by". www.bridgemanimages.com.
  3. "BOARDWALK – Dennis Schwartz Reviews". 2019-08-05.
  4. "Boardwalk (1979) | Soundview Media Partners LLC".
  5. "Boardwalk". ChaiFlicks - Watch Jewish and Israeli Movies, TV.
  6. Sierchio, Pat (2014-03-12). "Long, winding path to 'Boardwalk'". Jewish Journal.
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20070204072741/https://www.coneyislandfilmfestival.com/programs06/boardwalk.htm
  9. Canby, Vincent (1979-11-14). "Screen: 'Boardwalk,' a Couple's Problems:Crises in Series" – via NYTimes.com.


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