Budd Schulberg

What Makes Sammy Run? Everyone of us knows someone who runs. He is one of the symp-toms of our times--from the little man who shoves you out of the way on the street to the go-getter who shoves you out of a job in the office to the Fuehrer who shoves you out of the world. And all of us have stopped to wonder, at some time or another, what it is that makes these people tick. What makes them run? This is the question Schulberg has asked himself, and the answer is the first novel written with the indignation that only a young writer with talent and ideals could concentrate into a manuscript. It is the story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York's East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristic--his congenital incapacity for friendship. An older and more experienced novelist might have tempered his story and, in so doing, destroyed one of its outstanding qualities. Compromise would mar the portrait of Sammy Glick. Schulberg has etched it in pure vitriol, and dissected his victim with a precision that is almost frightening. When a fragment of this book appeared as a short story in a national magazine, Schulberg was surprised at the number of letters he received from people convinced they knew Sammy Glick's real name. But speculation as to his real identity would be utterly fruitless, for Sammy is a composite picture of a loud and spectacular minority bitterly resented by the many decent and sincere artists who are trying honestly to realize the measureless potentialities of motion pictures. Tothis group belongs Schulberg himself, who has not only worked as a screen writer since his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1936, but has spent his life, literally, in the heart of the motion-picture colony. In the course of finding out what makes Sammy run (an operation in which the reader is spared none of the grue-some details) Schulberg has poured out everything he has felt about that place. The result is a book which the publishers not only believe to be the most honest ever written about Hollywood, but a penetrating study of one kind of twentieth-century success that is peculiar to no single race of people or walk of life.

What Makes Sammy Run?

The Harder They Fall

The celebrated novel of the prize ring that has lost none of its power since its first publication almost fifty years ago. "The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption."--USA Today.

A Novel

The Disenchanted

Swan Watch

Sammy Glick quiere ser un «ganador». Es agresivo, despiadado, extraordinariamente egocéntrico y no tiene principios. Consigue ascender, de chico de los recados neoyorquino, a magnate del Hollywood de los años treinta. En su figura, parece difícil no reconocer la sombra de alguno de los nombres fundacionales de la industria cinematográfica. ¿Por qué corre Sammy?, publicada originalmente en 1941, es un relato punzante en el que Budd Schulberg exhibe su profundo conocimiento de la meca del cine ya mostrado en su magistral De cine. Memorias de un príncipe de Hollywood (publicado en esta misma editorial), aunque esta vez prefiera usar de la ficción, refrendando así su condición de clásico de la novela norteamericana.

¿Por qué corre Sammy?

Mas Dura Sera La Caida

Este libro trata de un paraíso, el de los primeros años de Hollywood, visto a través de los ojos de un niño, hijo del gran B.P. Schulberg que estuvo en los orígenes de tantos proyectos de la naciente industria y que se mantuvo durante años a la cabeza de la Paramount Pictures. En sentido estricto, más que las memorias de su autor (el famosísimo guionista de La ley del silencio o de Más dura será la caída o del novelista de mérito que escribiera El desencantado o ¿Por qué corre Sammy?) el presente libro es un friso informal pero coloreado e histórico de la más revolucionaria industria cultural del siglo xx. Rico en anécdotas, captura con brillantez la atmósfera, dorada y sórdida, que acompañó a Hollywood desde su fundación hasta las cumbres de su edad de oro.

memorias de un príncipe de Hollywood

De cine

Desencantado

El ex boxeador Terry Malloy y su hermano Charley, un abogado sin escrúpulos conocido como el Caballero, forman parte del duro sindicato de estibadores de Nueva York, conectado con la mafia y dirigido por Johnny Friendly. Él y sus matones controlan los muelles con mano de hierro; para seguir vivo hay que hacer las cosas a su manera y volverse sordo y mudo. Terry, de pocas luces e iletrado, lleva a cabo cualquier trabajo que le pidan. Hasta que un día conoce a Katie, cuyo hermano ha sido asesinado por infringir la ley del silencio. Entre ellos surge una atracción que despierta la adormilada conciencia de Terry, quien, ante las exhortaciones del padre Barry, un idealista cura católico, decide dar un paso al frente para derrocar la tiranía de la mafia. En una fabulosa introducción, el propio Budd Schulberg nos explica cómo surgieron tanto esta novela como el guión de la película homónima—dirigida por Elia Kazan y protagonizada por Marlon Brando—a partir de la información recopilada a lo largo de años de investigación en la ribera portuaria de Nueva York. «'La ley del silencio' nació del talento de Budd Schulberg, un escritor con una vida apasionante, un hombre cuya carrera es fiel reflejo de todos los vaivenes del siglo xx». Gregorio Belinchón, 'El País' «Una trama en la que la tragedia griega y el drama shakespeareano descienden a los bajísimos fondos». Rodrigo Fresán, 'ABC Cultural' «Magnífica». J.J. Armas Marcelo, 'ABC Cultural' «Un libro redondo». 'The New York Times' «Emocionante, conmovedor, fascinante». 'The New Republic'

La ley del silencio

Stan Silverman

Here, adapted for the stage, is Budd Schulberg s classic story of the New York waterfront and the kid who coulda been a contender. "

A Play

On the Waterfront

This utterly candid account of growing up in Hollywood during the 1920s includes unsparing portraits of outsized characters in all their power, venality, charm, pettiness, and vindictiveness.

Memories of a Hollywood Prince

Moving Pictures

A collection of signature works by the Boxing Hall of Fame-inducted former editor for Sports Illustrated includes his portrait of Mike Jacobs, an analysis of the careers of Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali, and evaluations of recent champions. By the author of A Face in the Crowd. BOMC.

A Treasury of Boxing Reportage

Ringside

Everything that Moves

Short Stories

Some Faces in the Crowd

Including stories from Schulberg's early work at Dartmouth in the '30s to his more recent pieces, here is a haunting collection of short stories that largely deal with two of Schulberg's best-known themes: underdogs and Hollywood.

Stories

Love, Action, Laughter and Other Sad Tales

Sammy Glick is a man with a positive genius for being a heel. He runs through New York's East Side, through newspaper ranks, and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates.

Budd Schulberg

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