Rosemary's Baby (film) Rosemary spits in his face. Minnie tells Rosemary that she should be honored to be the woman chosen to bear a child for Satan. Initially reluctant, Rosemary goes to the cradle and gently rocks him, with a small smile on her face. In "Rosemary's Baby: A Retrospective", a featurette on the DVD release of the film, screenwriter/director Roman Polanski, Paramount Pictures executive Robert Evans, and production designer Richard Sylbert reminisce at length about the production. Evans recalled William Castle brought him the galley proofs of the book and asked him to purchase the film rights even before Random House released
The Fixer (1968 film) alleged motivation. The film is based on Bernard Malamud's novel, which in turn was drawn from an actual experience. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Alan Bates). The film includes the quotation of a sentence by Baruch Spinoza: The Fixer (1968 film) The Fixer is a 1968 British drama film based on the 1966 semi-biographical novel of the same name, written by Bernard Malamud. It was directed by John Frankenheimer and stars Alan Bates. It is the story of a man named Yakov Bok, a Jew living in the Russian Empire, who