Sacco and Vanzetti

I've been told that one of the many entertaining claims made by the late actor and fabulist Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster) was that, as a very young man, he had worked on a committee to free Sacco and Vanzetti. As Hollywood seems to be in liberal overdrive lately, I'd be willing to bet a small sum of money that at least one script is circulating on the Sacco and Vanzetti story. Anyone familiar with American popular culture knows that S and V - two Italian immigrant anarchists who were executed in America in 1927 on a charge of armed robbery and murder - are martyr-saints in the pantheon of American leftism (classic poster at left by Ben Shahn). I often wonder, in an age when a sexual-harassment class action is seen as a good subject for a multiplex movie, why no-one has revisited this story. As far as I can see, the last time it was filmed was an Italian production of 1971. Maybe my people can talk to George Clooney's people.