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Gerald Butler is a Scriptwriter British born on 31 july 1907

Gerald Butler

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Birth name Gerald Alfred Butler
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 31 july 1907
Death 1988 (at 80 years)

Gerald Butler, né le 31 juillet 1907 et mort en février 1988 à Eastbourne, dans le comté du Sussex de l'Est, en Angleterre, est un écrivain et scénariste britannique, auteur de roman policier.

Biography

En 1940, il publie son premier roman, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, « son chef-d'œuvre », selon Claude Mesplède. « Cet inoubliable roman noir » est traduit à deux reprises en français, la première sous le titre Les Mains pures en 1946 et la seconde sous le titre Du sang sur les mains en 1949. Il fait également l'objet d'une adaptation dans un film américain réalisé par Norman Foster sous le titre Les Amants traqués.

Son deuxième roman, Cendrillon perd au jeu (They Cracked Her Glass Slipper, 1941), raconte l'idylle sans espoir entre Lucky, un séduisant joueur professionnel, et Joan Burns, une jolie jeune femme que Lucky a pris comme porte-bonheur et qui l'accompagne dans les salles de jeux clandestines jusqu'à ce qu'il perde en une soirée toute sa fortune aux dés. Ce roman est également adapté au cinéma par Gordon Parry en 1949.

« Chez Butler, les relations sentimentales jouent toujours un rôle essentiel. Ce thème est aussi présent dans Le Cœur et l'Esprit (Mad With Much Heart, 1945), porté à l'écran par Nicholas Ray », qui raconte comment un policier brutal, venu enquêter dans un village éloigné sur le meurtre d'une fillette, tombe amoureux d'une jeune femme aveugle.

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Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino
(1 films)
Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray
(1 films)
Jimmy Conlin
Jimmy Conlin
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Filmography of Gerald Butler (3 films)

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On Dangerous Ground, 1h22
Directed by Ida Lupino, Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Ed Begley, Charles Kemper, Anthony Ross
Roles Novel
Rating71% 3.593533.593533.593533.593533.59353
Robert Ryan plays Jim Wilson, a tough police detective embittered by years of dealing with low-life urban scum. After severely beating several suspects, Jim is assigned to a case far from the city to find the killer of a young girl. Joining the manhunt, in snow-covered terrain, Wilson finds himself paired with the victim's father, Walter Brent (Ward Bond), who plans to shoot the killer himself. When the two men come upon a cabin occupied by Mary Malden (Ida Lupino), a blind woman who is also the killer's sister, Wilson's life is changed forever. Mary, a generous and loving person who has cared for her mentally ill brother Danny (Sumner Williams) since the death of their parents, convinces Wilson to protect Danny from Brent. Wilson also promises to get help for Danny if he surrenders to him. Inspired by Mary's courage and recognizing Brent's rage as the mirror image of his own, Wilson gains the insight to free himself from his own blindness.
Third Time Lucky, 1h30
Directed by Gordon Parry
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Glynis Johns, Dermot Walsh, Charles Goldner, Yvonne Owen, Sebastian Cabot, Harcourt Williams
Rating56% 2.819092.819092.819092.819092.81909
A compulsive gambler falls in love with a woman, and believes she is bringing him luck. Unfortunately one of his gambling rivals has also caught her eye.
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, 1h19
Directed by Norman Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis Russell, Jay Novello, Colin Keith-Johnston
Roles Novel
Rating66% 3.346453.346453.346453.346453.34645
Bill Saunders (Lancaster) is a former prisoner of war now living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent. He gets into a bar fight in which he kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton (Joan Fontaine), who believes his story that the killing was an accident.