John Frankenheimer's The Fixer is a tough, tough film about injustice and anti-Semitism. It is also quite clearly a film about prison systems, state violence, and torture. Alan Bates and Dirk Bogarde are excellent. This is a hard movie to watch, though. We spend most of our time in solitary confinement with Bates's character, and the prison is a terrible, horrible place.
It is crazy, I have to say, that this movie is almost impossible to find. It's not streaming anywhere and it's not on blu-ray. How is this Frankenheimer film so neglected?
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