Edge of the City is a 1957 American film-noir drama film directed by Martin Ritt in his directorial debut, and starring John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier. Robert Alan Aurthur's screenplay was expanded from his original script, staged as the final episode of Philco Television Playhouse, A Man Is Ten Feet Tall (1955), also featuring Poitier.
Theatrical release poster by Saul Bass
Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier and John Cassavetes
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Martin Ritt was an American director, producer, and actor, active in film, theatre and television. He was known mainly as an auteur of socially-conscious dramas and literary adaptations, described by Stanley Kauffmann as "one of the most underrated American directors, superbly competent and quietly imaginative."
Ritt in 1965
Poster for Power, a Living Newspaper play for the Federal Theatre Project (1937)
The May 7, 1948, issue of the Counterattack newsletter
Ritt in 1979.