The Fixer

Based on the novel by Bernard Malamud, John Frankenheimer’s The Fixer is obviously something that never really figured out how to adapt the material for a different medium. I’ve never read Malamud’s novel (and I probably never will), but I suspect the movie is a fairly faithful adaptation, down to the structure. And the structure of a novel and the structure of a film are often not that compatible. Throw in the fact that it seems pretty obvious that both Frankenheimer and Dalton Trumbo, the ...