Budd Schulberg

In Budd Schulberg's classic novel about boxing's corrupt underworld, naïve newcomer Toro Molina is set up to hit the mat like no one else. 'Toro' Molina certainly looks the part. He's built like the Minotaur, but few would guess at the fear consuming the Argentine farmer and former circus performer after he's brought to the United States to be the next heavyweight champion of the world. The problem is that Molina can't box at all. But monstrous fight...

Once described as a frontier beyond the frontier, the Everglades in Florida was long a haven for the lawless--a hideout for moonshiners, outlaws and smugglers. Throughout the labyrinth of mangrove keys, there were deadly snakes and alligators, exotic vegetation and trees filled with varicolored plume birds. Against this primeval setting, the motion picture Across the Everglades brings into drmatic focus the war that was waged between the ruthless...

Considered by some to be Budd Schulberg's masterpiece, The Disenchanted tells the tragic story of Manley Halliday, a fabulously successful writer during the 1920s, a golden figure in a golden age, who by the late 1930s is forgotten by the literary establishment, living in Hollywood and writing for the film industry. Halliday is hired to work on a screenplay with a young writer in his twenties named Shep, who is desperate for success and idolizes Halliday....

A hobo becomes an overnight celebrity. But, as usual, more fame leads to more power, and more power leads to more corruption. Will he be exposed as the fraud that he is?

"A chronicle of the rise and fall of Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes, a boisterous entertainer discovered in an Arkansas drunk tank by Marcia Jeffries, a local radio producer with ambitions of her own. His charisma and cunning soon shoot him to the heights of television stardom and political demagoguery, forcing Marcia to grapple with the manipulative, reactionary monster she has created. Directed by Elia Kazan, this incisive satire features an extraordinary...