SOURCE: "Faith on the Left," in The Village Voice, Vol. XXV, No. 41, October 8-14, 1980, p. 49.

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Abraham Polonsky is one of the most curious and compelling figures in the history of American film, a man who refuses to fit into any simple, definable mold. When he was blacklisted in the '50s, he had directed only a single film (Force of Evil) and was credited with only three scripts (Body and Soul among them). Perhaps for this reason, Polonsky did not—like Joseph Losey or Jules Dassin—go to Europe to maintain his filmmaking career. Instead, he wrote (quite profitably) anonymous scripts, often about free speech for the likes of You Are There, and two novels—The World Above, which came out the day he...