What Makes Sammy Run?

First published fifty years ago to tumultuous praise and protest, WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN? shaped two generations' view of the movie business and introduced Sammy Glick, the archetypal Hollywood player. Sammy's got a machete mouth and a genius for the double cross. As Budd Schulberg - author of the screenplay of ON THE WATERFRONT - follows Sammy's relentless upward progress, he creates a virtuoso study in character that manages to be hilariously appalling yet deeply compassionate.