Ira Haber comments:


> I believe that the original source of Crossfire, was a novel by Richard
> Brooks, the director.

Yes.  The original title was THE BRICK FOXHOLE. As others have noted,
the victim of the murder in the novel was gay, changed in the film to a
Jewish man.

Don Larsson
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