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Elmore Leonard: "But Don't Try to Write"

The crime fiction writer who transcended the genre.

26 Mar 2021
  • United States of America
56 mins
4.5
1 votes
  • Documentary
  • History
articleOverview personCast
Elmore Leonard, author of more than 40 novels, is renowned in the literary community. From his westerns and early novels of crime based in Detroit and South Florida, right through his complex and virtually plotless later work, Elmore Leonard dissected an America whose founding sins have continued to haunt it all the days. Leonard’s depiction of America is as real as Twain’s Hannibal, Faulkner’s Mississippi and Steinbeck’s Monterey. The new documentary ELMORE LEONARD: “But don’t try to write” explores the prolific author’s legacy and his influence on generations of writers. The documentary features exclusive images and previously unseen home movie footage, family photographs, and in-depth interviews with both literary experts and those who knew him well, including colleagues, family, and childhood friends.
  • Campbell Scott

    as Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Wendy Calhoun

    as Self
  • Bridgett M. Davis

    as Self
  • Cheryl Dorsey

    as Self
  • James Hall

    as Self
  • Mike Lupica

    as Self
  • Otto Penzler

    as Self
  • Graham Yost

    as Self
  • Elmore Leonard

    as Self (archive footage)

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