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{{Short description|1959 American film by Daniel Mann}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = The Last Angry Man
| image          = LastAngryManPoster.jpg
 
| caption        = Theatrical poster
| director       = [[Daniel Mann]]
| producer       = [[Fred Kohlmar]]
| writer         = [[Richard Murphy (screenwriter)|Richard Murphy]] (adaptation)
| screenplay     = [[Gerald Green (author)|Gerald Green]]
| based_on       = [[Gerald Green (author)|Gerald Green]] (novel)
| starring       = [[Paul Muni]]<br>[[David Wayne]]<br>[[Betsy Palmer]]<br>[[Luther Adler]]<br>[[Claudia McNeil]]<br>[[Joby Baker]]
| music          = [[George Duning]]
| cinematography = [[James Wong Howe]]
| editing        = [[Charles Nelson (film editor)|Charles Nelson]]
| studio         = Fred Kohlmer Productions
| distributor    = [[Columbia Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1959|10|22|New York City|1959|11|10|Los Angeles}}
| runtime        = 100 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = 
| gross          = $1,675,000 (US/ Canada)<ref>"Rental Potentials of 1960", ''Variety'', 4 January 1961 p 47. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.</ref>
}}

'''''The Last Angry Man''''' is a 1959 American [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] that tells the story of a television producer who profiles the life of a physician. It stars [[Paul Muni]] (in his last film appearance), [[David Wayne]], [[Betsy Palmer]], [[Billy Dee Williams]] (in his film debut), and [[Godfrey Cambridge]].

The movie was scripted by [[Richard Murphy (screenwriter)|Richard Murphy]] from the novel by [[Gerald Green (author)|Gerald Green]] (who also adapted it), and was directed by [[Daniel Mann]].

The movie was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] (Paul Muni) and [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White]] ([[Carl Anderson (art director)|Carl Anderson]], [[William Kiernan]]).<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/28283/The-Last-Angry-Man/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828114254/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/28283/The-Last-Angry-Man/details |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-08-28 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2010 |title=The Last Angry Man |accessdate=2008-12-23}}</ref>

The film was remade in 1974 as an ''[[ABC Movie of the Week]]'' with [[Pat Hingle]] in the lead role.

==Plot==
As the fiercely dedicated general practitioner who tries to help the sick, the poor, and the unfortunate in his decrepit neighborhood, Dr. Sam Abelman is a testy old man who faces life without compromise and Woodrow Thrasher is a troubled television executive fighting to preserve his career.

==Cast==
* [[Paul Muni]] as Dr. Samuel "Sam" Abelman
* [[David Wayne]] as Woodrow "Woody" Thrasher
* [[Betsy Palmer]] as Anna Thrasher
* [[Luther Adler]] as Dr. Max Vogel
* [[Claudia McNeil]] as Mrs. Quincy
* [[Joby Baker]] as Myron Malkin
* [[Joanna Moore]] as Alice Taggart
* Nancy R. Pollock as Sarah Abelman
* [[Billy Dee Williams]] as Josh Quincy
* [[Robert F. Simon]] as Lyman Gatting
* [[Dan Tobin]] as Ben Loomer

==Reception==
Paul S. Cowan of ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'' wrote that the film "combines some of the finest motion picture effects with many of the worst."<ref>{{cite web|author=Cowan, Paul S.|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1959/10/30/the-last-angry-man-pithe-last/|title=The Last Angry Man|work=[[The Crimson]]|date=1959-10-30}}</ref>

''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote that the lead actor "gives a superlative performance."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1958/film/reviews/the-last-angry-man-1200419277/|title=The Last Angry Man|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=1958-12-31|accessdate=2020-03-20}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of American films of 1959]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0052990}}
*{{rotten-tomatoes|last_angry_man}}
*{{TCMDb title|263}}

{{Daniel Mann}}

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[[Category:1959 drama films]]
[[Category:1959 films]]
[[Category:American drama films]]
[[Category:Columbia Pictures films]]
[[Category:American black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Films scored by George Duning]]
[[Category:Films about physicians]]
[[Category:Films about television]]
[[Category:Films based on American novels]]
[[Category:Films directed by Daniel Mann]]
[[Category:Films set in Brooklyn]]
[[Category:1950s English-language films]]
[[Category:1950s American films]]
[[Category:English-language drama films]]


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