Daniel Petrie

Elio Petri’s savage, Palme d’Or-winning takedown of capitalism and industrial corruption. Gian Maria Volonté (A Fistful of Dollars), stars as Lulu, a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown, in one of provocative filmmaker Elio Petri’s (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) most politically charged films. Too tired to sleep with his girlfriend, cut […]

Lorraine Hansberry’s immortal A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be performed on Broadway. Two years later, the production came to the screen, directed by Daniel Petrie. The original stars—including Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee—reprise their roles as members of an African American family living in a cramped […]