Kazan adapted his first best-selling autobiographical novel into this complex and turbulent portrait of a prosperous Los Angeles advertiser who suddenly became irrevocably addicted to his luxury life, beautiful wife and crazy successful career. Kirk Douglas (Kirk Douglas) is a manic, high-profile portrait of a man desperate to escape from a gilded cage, as well as the tense rhythm and experimental prosperity of Kazan's most avant-garde. The arrangement provides both painful portraits of middle-aged discomfort and the blinds of Los Angeles as a cauldron of anxiety in the 20th century.
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