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The People vs. Paul Crump

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'The People vs. Paul Crump' is a 1962 documentary about the prisoner Paul Crump who was on death row for robbery and murder.[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-20/opinion/ct-oped-0620-crump-20100620_1_paul-crump-torture-jon-burge David Weiner, "The Forgotten Case of Paul Crump", 'Chicago Tribune', June 20, 2010] accessed 18 January 2014

The film was made for Chicago television and was highly praised and crucial to the career of its director William Friedkin, helping him get an agent and jobs making documentaries for David Wolper, and then an episode of 'The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'.Friedkin p 31 - 53, 57-60 The film won the Golden Gate Award Winner for Film as Communication at the 1962 San Francisco International Film Festival.

A digitally restored version of the film was released by Facets in May 2014.

See also



* List of American films of 1962

References



Friedkin, William, 'The Friedkin Connection', Harper Collins 2013


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