An American Dream (film)
An American Dream (also known as See You in Hell, Darling) is a 1966 Technicolor drama film directed by Robert Gist and starring Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh. It was adapted from the 1965 Norman Mailer novel of the same name. The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Song for "A Time for Love," music by Johnny Mandel and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. Plot. Stephen Rojack, a war hero, returns home to become a tough-talking television commentator who strongly criticizes the police's inability to put an end to the criminal activities of  Ganucci, an organized-crime figure. Separated from his alcoholic wife Deborah, he goes to her seeking a divorce. A violent argument breaks out, ending with Rojack throwing her from a 30th-story window. At the police station, where he tells the police his wife committed suicide, Rojack runs into Ganucci as well as the gangster's nephew Nicky and nightclub singer Cherry McMahon, a former girlfriend of his. Rojack resumes his romantic interest in Cherry, further infuriating the Ganuccis. Barney Kelly, his dead wife's father, is suspicious about Deborah's death and confronts Rojack, getting him to admit his  guilt. Instead of informing the police, Barney decides to let Rojack struggle with his conscience. Meanwhile, bribing her with a singing contract, the Ganuccis are able to convince Cherry to lure Rojack into an ambush. At the last second, she breaks down and warns him. Rojack takes her gun and is able to shoot Nicky, but then is gunned down himself. Production. When "An American Dream" bombed at the box office, the desperate distributors re-titled the film See You in Hell, Darling. Review. The director intended to make a horror movie, but failed to create that effect: According to  Time Out magazine, it turns out to be "just tediously violent".