January 22, 1962
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, the film adaptation of Arthur Miller’s play, opens in New York City. Despite the New York setting and story of a Brooklyn longshoreman secretly in love with his niece, all the film’s interiors are shot in Paris with an international cast (Raf Vallone, Maureen Stapleton, Carol Lawrence, Jean Sorel). Thus the film is a prime example of “runaway production,” away from the Hollywood studios. Rising talent Sidney Lumet directed; he would have greater success with his film version of Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece, Long Day’s Journey into Night, later in the year.
