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Jerome Odlum is a Scriptwriter born on 26 august 1905
Jerome Odlum, né le 26 août 1905 à Minneapolis, dans le Minnesota, aux États-Unis, et mort le 2 mars 1954 à Los Angeles, en Californie, est un écrivain et scénariste américain, auteur de roman noir.
En 1938, il publie son premier roman, À chaque aube je meurs (Each Dawn I Die) dans lequel il décrit l'univers carcéral : un « classique du roman noir », selon Claude Mesplède. Ce roman est adapté en 1939 dans un film américain, À chaque aube je meurs, réalisé par William Keighley.
En 1941, il crée le personnage de John Steele, un détective privé à Hollywood que l'on retrouve dans trois romans, dont un seul est traduit en français, Où planent les vautours (The Mirabilis Diamond, 1945), dans lequel « fausses identités, meurtres, manipulations et fausses pistes constituent les ingrédients de ce récit classique mais captivant dont le thème rappelle celui du Faucon de Malte ».
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Birth 26 august 1905
Death 2 march 1954 (at 48 years)
Death 2 march 1954 (at 48 years)
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Tout d'abord journaliste, il est rédacteur en chef du Minneapolis News de 1934 à 1937.En 1938, il publie son premier roman, À chaque aube je meurs (Each Dawn I Die) dans lequel il décrit l'univers carcéral : un « classique du roman noir », selon Claude Mesplède. Ce roman est adapté en 1939 dans un film américain, À chaque aube je meurs, réalisé par William Keighley.
En 1941, il crée le personnage de John Steele, un détective privé à Hollywood que l'on retrouve dans trois romans, dont un seul est traduit en français, Où planent les vautours (The Mirabilis Diamond, 1945), dans lequel « fausses identités, meurtres, manipulations et fausses pistes constituent les ingrédients de ce récit classique mais captivant dont le thème rappelle celui du Faucon de Malte ».
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The Strange Affair (1968)
, 1h46Directed by David Greene
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Michael York, Jeremy Kemp, Susan George, Jack Watson, George A. Cooper, George Benson
Roles Writer
Rating62%
Peter Strange (York) is an idealistic young police recruit who gets mixed up with a tough and jaded Scotland Yard detective (Kemp). The inspector is trying to arrest a gang of drug smugglers, and threatens to blackmail Strange unless he plants some heroin on one of the gang. Strange reluctantly agrees, but lands in further trouble when he's the one who gets arrested. Meanwhile, Strange is having an affair with Frederika (George), who is part of a porno ring where her aunt and uncle film her sexual encounters from behind a one-way mirror.
Highway Dragnet (1954)
, 1h10Directed by Nathan Juran
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Reed Hadley, Mary Beth Hughes, Iris Adrian
Rating61%
A former Korean War-era Marine hitches a ride with a female fashion photographer and her young assistant to escape from the Las Vegas police on a murder charge.
The Fast and the Furious (1954)
, 1h13Directed by John Ireland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Roger Corman, Iris Adrian, Snub Pollard, Larry Thor
Roles Ecrivain
Rating53%
Frank Webster (John Ireland) has broken out of jail, charged with a murder he did not commit. While on the run, and the subject of radio news reports, he becomes cornered in a small coffee shop by a zealous citizen. He commits battery to escape, and kidnaps a young woman named Connie (Dorothy Malone) as he gets away. Frank drives off with Connie in her Jaguar. But she soon proves a difficult hostage, trying to escape a few times, which leads him to treat her more roughly than they both would prefer. This mutual struggle soon leads the two to fall in love with each other. Continuing to elude police, the couple slips into a cross-border sports car race, which Frank plans to take advantage of in order to escape into Mexico. Out of sympathy for Frank and a desire to be with him, Connie informs the police of the plan so he might face trial and be acquitted, and at the last moment he, too, decides it is better to turn himself in. The film ends with his capture by police imminent.
Cover Up (1949)
, 1h23Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, William Bendix, Barbara Britton, Art Baker, Ann E. Todd, Doro Merande
Rating65%
In a small Midwestern town a man is found dead. When insurance investigator Sam Donovan (O'Keefe) arrives looking into the apparent suicide, all clues lead him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best (Bendix). Finally, attractive local girl Anita (Britton) breaks the silence and helps investigator Donovan solve the case.
Last Frontier Uprising (1947)
, 1h7Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Monte Hale, Lorna Gray, Roy Barcroft, Philip Van Zandt, Edmund F. Cobb, John Ince
Roles Story
Rating57%
American government horse purchaser Monte Hale (Monte Hale) meets his match in both love and profession, private buyer Vance Daley (Malcolm "Bud" McTaggart), who works under unprofessed criminal "Liberal" Lyons (Philip Van Zandt). Hale and Daley attend a horse auction, and fight for Texan rancher Mary Lou Gardner's team of prized colts. When a victor cannot be determined, the gauntlet is thrown – the two men must compete one-on-one in a horse race; the victor will win the colts.
Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941)
, 1h3Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry, James Gleason, Howard Da Silva, Edward Brophy, Faye Emerson
Roles Novel
Rating59%
Alors qu'un gangster menace de poursuivre en diffamation le Daily Express où il travaille, le journaliste Matt Sawyer est rétrogradé, et se voit réduit à traiter les faits divers. Les policiers qu'il accompagne sont amenés à enquêter sur la mort du millionnaire Edward Abbott, ayant les apparences d'un suicide. Matt est convaincu qu'il s'agit d'un assassinat, et grâce à ce scoop il retrouve grâce auprès de son rédacteur en chef.
The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
, 1h25Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Historical, Western
Actors James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Ward Bond, Rosemary Lane, Donald Crisp
Rating63%
The American government has agreed with the Cherokee Indians to purchase the rights to their land known as the Cherokee Strip (actually, the Cherokee Outlet) in the future state of Oklahoma. After the money arrives by train, it is then loaded onto a stagecoach which subsequently gets robbed by Whip McCord (Humphrey Bogart) and his gang. Jim Kincaid, aka, "The Oklahoma Kid", (James Cagney) sees the robbery, and then ambushes the gang and makes off with the money.
Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
, 1h28Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan
Roles Novel
Rating67%
Joe Bell (John Garfield) becomes embittered after he is jailed for 16 months for something he did not do. Later, he gets into a fight with a crook (played by an uncredited Ward Bond) and is sentenced to a work farm for 90 days. There, he becomes friends with Mabel Alden (Priscilla Lane), which displeases Charles Garreth (Stanley Ridges), her stepfather and the farm's foreman. The two men fight, and Joe knocks Garreth out. Panicking, the young couple flee and get married, only to learn that Garreth has died and that Joe is wanted for his murder.
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
, 1h32Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft, Stanley Ridges, Victor Jory
Roles Novel
Rating71%
Frank Ross (Cagney) is a crusading reporter for a big city newspaper on the trail of a crooked district attorney, Jesse Hanley, who is running for election as governor of the state. At the Banton Construction Co., Ross sees Hanley and his accomplice Grayce (Jory) burning books and ledgers to thwart a possible investigation brought about by the paper that Ross works for. His editor Patterson backs Ross in getting Hanley but the D.A. decides to get rid of him, so frames him. Knocked out and covered in whiskey, he is put in a runaway car which collides with another, killing 3 young people and is thrown in prison for one to twenty years on a charge of automotive manslaughter.