Paul Muni's (the original Scarface/The Good Earth) last film role is in this 1959 film directed by Daniel Mann (The Rose Tattoo/Willard) detailing the schism between giving your all in the medical profession even when your own life depends on it. Being a kindly doctor in an ever changing New York neighborhood (this being the 50's when minorities were displacing Caucasians since they were moving en masse to the suburbs) he tries to save every life he can while anguishing over those he can do nothing for (Billy Dee Williams in an early critical role) which attracts the attention of a TV magazine story editor (shades of a 60 Minutes piece) who wants to spotlight this medical officer. Muni, the consummate actor of his generation, shows even in his last effort he can hold his own w/the burgeoning new acting styles (the Method) emerging in that time period w/a story which smacks of vital Stanley Kramer (the message picture). Co-starring David Wayne (he played the Mad Hatter on TV's Batman) & Betsy Palmer (Jason Voorhees' Mom).
Review of The Last Angry Man
