Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and ‘A View From the Bridge’

NYTimes.com: "IN 1947, while doing research for a screenplay in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, Arthur Miller heard a story that reminded him of the plot of a Greek tragedy. An Italian-American longshoreman had turned in to authorities two illegal immigrants, relatives he had been sheltering in his home, in order to stop one of them from marrying his niece. Having violated an unwritten proscription against informing, he was disgraced and later disappeared — possibly, as rumor had it, murdered by one of the men he had betrayed."