Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Let No Man Write My Epitaph is a 1960 American social problem crime film directed by Philip Leacock and starring Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren, Jean Seberg, Ricardo Montalbán and Ella Fitzgerald. The screenplay was by Robert Presnell Jr. based on the 1958 novel of the same title by Willard Motley. It is a sequel to the 1949 film Knock on Any Door, also based on a Motley novel. The story concerns the son of an executed criminal who aspires to escape his impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhood with the help of his mother and a group of concerned neighbors.