The Stepford Husbands The Stepford Husbands The Stepford Husbands is a 1996 American made-for-television thriller-drama film inspired by the Ira Levin novel "The Stepford Wives". It was directed by Fred Walton with a screenplay by brothers Ken Wheat and Jim Wheat and starring Donna Mills, Michael Ontkean, Cindy Williams, Sarah Douglas and Louise Fletcher. It is the third in a series of sequels inspired by the 1972 novel and the original 1975 film "The Stepford Wives". In a prologue, a docile man suddenly kills his wife in a violent method and then commits suicide. Several months later, graphic artist Jodi and struggling author
Meyer Levin plagiarism. Meyer wrote the 1956 novel "Compulsion", inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case. The novel, for which Levin was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America in 1957, was the basis for Levin's own 1957 play adaptation and the 1959 film based on it, starring Orson Welles. "Compulsion" was "the first 'documentary' or 'non-fiction novel' ("a style later used in Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" and Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song""). Meyer Levin Meyer Levin (October 7, 1905 – July 9, 1981) was an American novelist. Perhaps best known for his work on the Leopold