num_pages: 9
description: First published fifty years ago to tumultuous praise and protest, WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN? shaped two generations' view of the movie business and introduced Sammy Glick, the archetypal Hollywood player. Sammy's got a machete mouth and a genius for the double cross. As Budd Schulberg - author of the screenplay of ON THE WATERFRONT - follows Sammy's relentless upward progress, he creates a virtuoso study in character that manages to be hilariously appalling yet deeply compassionate.
language: English
title: What Makes Sammy Run?
titlecomplete: What Makes Sammy Run?
characters: Sammy Glick
genres: Classics, American, Self Help, Philosophy, Film, Media Tie In, Novels, Literature, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 2919
publisher: Books on Tape