Fever Pitch was the final film for the director who shot the film based on the non-fiction novel by whom?
Fever Pitch (1985 film) Fever Pitch is a 1985 American drama film starring Ryan O'Neal, and written and directed by Richard Brooks. This turned out to be the final film for Brooks, director of such acclaimed pictures as "Blackboard Jungle", "Elmer Gantry", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "In Cold Blood". Co-starring in the film were Giancarlo Giannini, Chad Everett, John Saxon and Catherine Hicks. The original music score was composed by Thomas Dolby.
The Deadly Affair The Deadly Affair is a 1966 British espionage–thriller film, based on John le Carré's first novel "Call for the Dead". The film stars James Mason, Harry Andrews, Simone Signoret and Maximilian Schell and was directed by Sidney Lumet from a script by Paul Dehn. In it George Smiley, the central character of the novel and many other le Carré books, is renamed Charles Dobbs as Paramount, which owned the film rights of their recently filmed "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", had the rights to the Smiley character. The soundtrack was composed by Quincy Jones, and the bossa nova theme song, "Who Needs Forever", is performed by Astrud Gilberto.