Robert Rossen (1908-1966) started his career on Broadway as a stage director before moving into cinema first as a screenwriter and then as a director. His films include Johnny O’ Clock (1947), Body and Soul (1947), All the King’s Men, about political corruption (1949, Oscar® winner) and The Brave Bulls (1951). In 1954, when McCarthyism was rampant, he went to Italy where he filmed Mambo starring Silvana Mangano, Alexander the Great (1956), Island in the Sun (1957), They Came to Cordura (1959) and Lilith (1964).