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An American Dream is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Gist released in USA on 31 august 1966 with Stuart Whitman
An American Dream (1966)
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Add to a movie listAn American Dream is a 1966 Technicolor drama film directed by Robert Gist, starring Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh. It was adapted from the Norman Mailer novel of the same name. The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Song, "A Time for Love," with music by Johnny Mandel and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.
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Stephen Rojack, a war hero, returns home to become a tough-talking television commentator who strongly criticizes the police's inability to put an end to the criminal activities of an organized-crime figure, Ganucci.Actors
Stuart Whitman
(Stephen Richard Rojack)
Janet Leigh
(Cherry McMahon)
Eleanor Parker
(Deborah Kelly Rojack)
Barry Sullivan
(Police Lt. G. Roberts)
Lloyd Nolan
(Barney Kelly)
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