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.
James Crumley James Arthur Crumley (October 12, 1939 – September 17, 2008) was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. He has been described as "one of modern crime writing's best practitioners", who was "a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel" and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson. His book "The Last Good Kiss" has been described as "the most influential crime novel of the last 50 years."