Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Oct 16, 2026
Caroline WilsonHOST
Well, interesting.
Caroline WilsonHOST
So in the '50s, Joseph Mankiewicz made a film of The Quiet American starring Audie Murphy and I think Michael Redgrave, and it's very much sanitized, changed a lot of the main story.
Corrie PerkinHOST
Mm.
Caroline WilsonHOST
And then Philip Noyce-
Lucy Rowan-HolmesHOST
I, I have to put my cards on the table here.
Lucy Rowan-HolmesHOST
I have neither seen the Anthony Shaffer play nor the original Joseph Mankiewicz film, which was nominated for many Oscars.
November KellyHOST
You haven't seen the original?
Lucy Rowan-HolmesHOST
I have not seen the original.
Dr RaddGUEST
film detail for you, Dr. G.
Dr RaddGUEST
In fact, I'd like to start with a quote, if I might, from the writer slash director of the film, Joseph Mankiewicz.
Dr RaddGUEST
He said that Cleopatra was the toughest three pictures I ever made.
Dr RaddGUEST
It was conceived in a state of emergency, shot in confusion and wound up in a blind panic.
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Dr RaddGUEST
And then, of course, finally, we have as director a couple of people.
Dr RaddGUEST
We had Ruben Mamoulian, who was the initial director, but he was replaced with Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who was an esteemed writer slash director.
Dr RaddGUEST
I adore Joseph Mankiewicz.
Dr RaddGUEST
He was involved in some of my absolute most favourite classic movies.
Jane DraycottGUEST
Yeah
speaker_0HOST
... on January 26, 1962 that Walter Wanger, in his diaries, his published diaries, records that Joseph Mankiewicz, director/screenwriter, called him in to tell him that he's pretty sure [laughs] there's an affair going on between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, 'cause he's quite friendly with them, and he doesn't really wanna keep it a secret that there is something going on.
speaker_0HOST
To backtrack a little bit to what we talked about last episode, keep in mind that Elizabeth Taylor already had just copped a lot of flack for breaking up somebody else's marriage with Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, and she's only just recently married Eddie Fisher herself.
speaker_0HOST
Richard Burton is in a slightly different boat in that he has been married to one person for a little bit of time and has children with that person, Sybil, his wife.
Caroline WilsonHOST
Well, interesting.
Caroline WilsonHOST
So in the '50s, Joseph Mankiewicz made a film of The Quiet American starring Audie Murphy and I think Michael Redgrave.
Caroline WilsonHOST
And it's very much sanitized, changed a lot of the main story.
Corrie PerkinHOST
Mm.
Joseph L. MankiewiczSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I, I don't think you can have both.
Sylvia SidneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who served a long, long apprenticeship in the film factory.
Sylvia SidneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Control, that's the clue to the whole controversy.
Sylvia SidneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
How much control should a screenwriter have over his brainchild, which was, after all, made to order? But there were others, masters of the lonely inward skill of writing, who could not accept this hard Hollywood bargain.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
um so i love i love that response and somebody pointed out that like given how like hitchcock's fixation with like catholicism and that sort of like blonde virginal thing like like a woman named eva marie saint must have just been like beyond catnip for him uh but yeah i know she was a very versatile actress um you know obviously yes on the waterfront and north by northwest probably her biggest successes But she has a great turn in a movie that I wrote about in the first edition of Movie Little Christmas called Carol for Another Christmas.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
It was this UN production directed by Joseph Mankiewicz, written by Rod Serling.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
Cast is amazing.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
It's like Sterling Hayden and Ben Gazzara and Peter Sellers and all these people.
Jim CornetteGUEST
If only had time.
Jim CornetteGUEST
I'm thinking the James Brothers and Christy in California could be San Francisco, and Bobo worked for Joe Mankiewicz before Roy Shire started promoting.
Jim CornetteGUEST
Is this the San Francisco's Civic Auditorium in 1953?
Brian LastHOST
Jim, it's another Cal Eaton Sports Enterprise.
John PodhoretzHOST
Um, it's a fantastic audio documentary, is the way that I would say it.
John PodhoretzHOST
It's narrated by Ben, uh, Mankiewicz, the, the, uh, host on Turner Classic Movies.
John PodhoretzHOST
He's got a great voice, a, a, a great radio voice.
John PodhoretzHOST
You learn a lot about Kubrick, um, uh, which we-- I'm sure we'll get into, uh, in a second.
John PodhoretzHOST
Uh, one season was about Peter Bogdanovich, the director.
John PodhoretzHOST
One season was about Lucille Ball.
John PodhoretzHOST
Last season was about the making and breaking of the movie Cleopatra, which was made by Mankiewicz's uncle, Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
John PodhoretzHOST
Um, and, uh, these are, I think, without question, the best cinematic documentaries released in the United States in fifty years, since there was a show on PBS called The Men Who Made the Movies, which was Richard Schickel's, which you can watch on YouTube, which was interviews with the great directors of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Jim RomanovichHOST
It is essentially Shakespeare's King Lear, as told through an Italian-American immigrant banking family in New York.
Jim RomanovichHOST
Now, there was a little controversy surrounding this film with director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and screenwriter Philip Yorden.
Jim RomanovichHOST
Yorden was fired for delivering a weak first draft script.
Jim RomanovichHOST
in which Mankiewicz took over and rewrote the whole thing himself.
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