The Last Angry Man

594 pp. The teen-age hoods, the lazy cops, the hymn-singing old ladies in that Brooklyn slum all knew Samuel Abelman-- doctor to the damned. He cursed them. He cajoled them. He cured them. They used to argue about him. A foul-mouthed old nut, they said. A hopeless sucker, they said. A hero, they said. Then a TV hot shot with a program to build, found him, tried to con-him--then fought to save him. "The Last Angry Man is a 1959 film which tells the story of a journalist who profiles the life of his physician uncle. It stars Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Billy Dee Williams and Godfrey Cambridge. The movie was adapted by Richard Murphy from the novel by Gerald Green. It was directed by Daniel Mann. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Muni) and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Carl Anderson, William Kiernan). The film was remade in 1974 as an ABC Movie of the Week, with Pat Hingle in the lead role." -- Wikipedia