[1] Hall Bartlett was born in Kansas City, Missouri, he graduated from Yale University, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa member and a Rhodes Scholar nominee.
[4] Drango (1957), a study of the post American Civil War era, was based on the true story about a Union officer who returned to the land his fellow soldiers had ravaged to try to rebuild the South, as Abraham Lincoln had encouraged before his assassination.
[5] All the Young Men (1960), starring Sidney Poitier and Alan Ladd, was about a black man's struggle to achieve first class citizenship.
[6] New York Times critic Bosley Crowther wrote of the film, "Racial integration in the United States Marines is sluggishly celebrated in a variation on a well-used Western plot.
"[7] The Caretakers (1963) centered on the problems of mental health and was (at the request of President John F. Kennedy) the first film ever shown on the floor of the United States Senate.
Leonard Maltin would later describe the film as an "at times incisive view of a West Coast mental hospital, marred by flimsy script and poor editing.
[10] Bartlett produced A Global Affair (1964), a story about the first baby ever born in the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City, which starred Bob Hope and Lilo Pulver and was directed by Jack Arnold.
[12] New York Times critic Renata Adler wrote that "The plot is old fashioned and solid, about the police and the Mafia, and running heroin from Mexico…it was like a great episode in a firstclass TV serial.
"[13] Changes (1969), a strongly personal examination of the younger generation, was filmed in college communities across the country to record honest insights into issues of the day.
However, in the Soviet Union, the movie became so well-known that it inspired theater plays, books, special reports on post-Soviet criminal youth etc.
The Children of Sanchez (1978) was written for the screen by Cesare Zavattini based on Oscar Lewis's book of the same title, a classic study of a Mexican family played by Anthony Quinn, Dolores del Río, and Lupita Ferrer (Bartlett's then-wife at the time).
[1] Bartlett's final film, the 1983 TV movie, Love is Forever, was based on the true story of one of the most daring escapes in modern history.
[citation needed] John Everingham (played in the film by Michael Landon) rescued his Laotian fiancée under the watchful guns of the Pathet Lao Army, executing an unforgettable, exciting, dangerous, and life-risking plan.
The plan demanded a year's careful training and study, after Everingham, a top reporter, was imprisoned in Laos, then expelled from the country with a high price for his murder if he ever returned.