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Hall Bartlett (November 27, 1922 – September 7, 1993) was an American film producer, director, and screen writer. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he graduated from Yale University Phi Beta Kappa, and was a Rhodes Scholar nominee. He served five years in Naval intelligence, then began his filmmaking career with producing the documentary film Navajo, the first contemporary picture to focus attention on the plight of the American Indian. Bartlett was also the first filmmaker to do a picture about professional football: his Crazylegs was the story of superstar Elroy Hirsch. His next film,... MORE

Hall Bartlett (November 27, 1922 – September 7, 1993) was an American film producer, director, and screen writer. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he graduated from Yale University Phi Beta Kappa, and was a Rhodes Scholar nominee. He served five years in Naval intelligence, then began his filmmaking career with producing the documentary film Navajo, the first contemporary picture to focus attention on the plight of the American Indian. Bartlett was also the first filmmaker to do a picture about professional football: his Crazylegs was the story of superstar Elroy Hirsch. His next film, Unchained, was filmed inside the California Institution for Men at Chino, California. Bartlett spent six months behind the walls living as an inmate while he wrote the screenplay. The film's musical theme, "Unchained Melody," became an international classic. Bartlett acquired the rights to the first novel of Arthur Hailey, Zero Hour!, and made it into a suspense film. The plot of was later used for Airplane!, the 1980 spoof of disaster films. His Drango, 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 LESS