July 31, 1968 –
The film adaptation of the 1940 novel of the same name by Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, directed by Robert Ellis Miller, and starring Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke (in her film debut), Cicely Tyson, and Stacy Keach, was released on this date.
Montgomery Clift was approached to play Singer (Alan Arkin’s character) in an early 1960s version that never got off the ground.
The Haus of Dcaligari 