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Sydney Boehm est un scénariste américain, né le 4 avril 1908 à Philadelphie (Pennsylvanie) et mort le 19 juin 1990 à Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) (Californie), des suites d'une pneumonie.
Après avoir été journaliste, Boehm s'oriente vers le cinéma à partir de 1947. Selon Coursodon et Tavernier, c'est un vieux renard d'Hollywood et un remarquable constructeur d'intrigues. Il sait donner du nerf aux histoires banales, trouve des détails inattendus, réussit à les intégrer dans un milieu pittoresque, mais ne trouve que rarement des points de départs originaux.
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Sydney Boehm est un scénariste américain, né le 4 avril 1908 à Philadelphie (Pennsylvanie) et mort le 19 juin 1990 à Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) (Californie), des suites d'une pneumonie.
Après avoir été journaliste, Boehm s'oriente vers le cinéma à partir de 1947. Selon Coursodon et Tavernier, c'est un vieux renard d'Hollywood et un remarquable constructeur d'intrigues. Il sait donner du nerf aux histoires banales, trouve des détails inattendus, réussit à les intégrer dans un milieu pittoresque, mais ne trouve que rarement des points de départs originaux.
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Rough Night in Jericho (1967)
, 1h44Directed by Arnold Laven
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors Dean Martin, George Peppard, Jean Simmons, John McIntire, Slim Pickens, Dean Paul Martin
Rating63%
A stagecoach bound for the town of Jericho is ambushed by Alex Flood, a lawman gone bad. Sharpshooting from a safe distance, Flood wounds the coach's driver, Ben Hickman, who is brought to town by the only passenger, a gambler named Dolan.
Sylvia (1965)
, 1h55Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Carroll Baker, George Maharis, Peter Lawford, Joanne Dru, Viveca Lindfors, Edmond O'Brien
Rating65%
Sylvia West seems just about perfect in the eyes of California millionaire Frederic Summers, who proposes marriage to her. She is beautiful, brilliant, financially independent, writes poetry and seems to personify exactly what he wants in a woman.
Shock Treatment (1964)
, 1h34Directed by Denis Sanders
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Ossie Davis, Roddy McDowall, Lauren Bacall, Timothy Carey
Rating65%
A crazed gardener (Roddy McDowall) is sent to a mental hospital after he goes berserk and beheads his wealthy boss.
One Foot in Hell (1960)
, 1h30Directed by James B. Clark
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O'Herlihy, Dolores Michaels, Barry Coe, Larry Gates
Roles Writer
Rating61%
Mitch Barrett (Alan Ladd) is a former Confederate soldier emigrating to the West whose wife Ellie (Rachel Stephens) dies in childbirth in a small cattle town in Arizona because of what Mitch sees as the heartlessness of three local men - George Caldwell the hotel keeper (Henry Norell ), Sam Giller the general store owner (John Alexander) and Ole Olsen the sheriff (Karl Swenson). Unhinged by Ellie's death, he plots to get his revenge by robbing the local bank of $100,000 deposited by a rich cattleman, thus ruining the town.
Seven Thieves (1960)
, 1h40Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, Striptease
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins, Eli Wallach, Alexander Scourby, Michael Dante
Rating64%
A discredited expatriate American professor, Theo Wilkins (Edward G. Robinson), has called on a young protégé and sophisticated thief, Paul Mason (Rod Steiger), to come over from the US to the south of France and help him pull off one final heist. He has masterminded a caper to steal $4,000,000 in French francs from the underground vault of the casino of Monte Carlo, Monaco. Wilkins has recruited a team of thieves – including Melanie (Joan Collins), an exotic dancer – but he needs someone he can trust, Mason, to keep them all in line during the crime.
Woman Obsessed (1959)
, 1h43Directed by Henry Hathaway, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Susan Hayward, Stephen Boyd, Barbara Nichols, Dennis Holmes, Theodore Bikel, James Philbrook
Roles Writer
Rating60%
Mary Sharron (Susan Hayward) has lost her husband to a forest fire. To help her run the ranch, she hires Fred Carter (Stephen Boyd), a handy man. A handsome, but taciturn fellow who has known much tragedy, Fred works hard for her. Robbie Sharron (Dennis Holmes), the woman's son, resents him, and when he learns that his mother is planning to marry him to quell ugly rumors in town, the youth is most unhappy. After the wedding, the stepfather treats the boy harshly, not out of cruelty, but because he wants to prepare the boy to survive the tough life ahead. This creates friction and frustration. Sometimes Fred beats both Mary and Robbie. On the day the wife learns she is pregnant, Robbie and Fred get into a violent fight.
Harry Black and the Tiger (1958)
, 1h50Directed by Hugo Fregonese
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Barbara Rush, Stewart Granger, I. S. Johar, Anthony Steel, Martin Stephens, Kamala Devi
Roles Writer
Rating61%
Professional hunter Harry Black is off to India. He wants to bag a tiger in the Indian jungles that is threatening a nearby village. As he proceeds on his journey, he encounters numerous people, including the young, and maybe too smart, Desmond Tanner and his wife Chris, who was Harry's first wife.
, 1h27Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney, Mickey Shaughnessy, Dina Merrill, Madge Kennedy, Frances Bavier
Roles Writer
Rating55%
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)
, 1h32Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Political films, Children's films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie, Agnes Moorehead, Michael Pate, Carl Harbaugh
Roles Ecrivain
Rating63%
In 1941, Mamie Stover (Jane Russell), a San Francisco prostitute, is chased away from the city by several policemen. On a freighter to Honolulu, she meets Jim Blair (Richard Egan), a successful writer who thinks of Mamie as a Cinderella-like beauty. Flattered, Mamie enjoys not being associated with her former occupation and falls in love. A shipboard romance is cut short when Mamie notices Jim being welcomed ashore by his sweetheart Annalee (Joan Leslie).
Hell on Frisco Bay (1956)
, 1h38Directed by Frank Tuttle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Alan Ladd, Edward G. Robinson, Joanne Dru, William Demarest, Jayne Mansfield, Paul Stewart
Rating63%
After five years in San Quentin prison, former policeman Steve Rollins is released. Unjustly convicted of manslaughter in an arrested man's death, Steve is met by a friend from the force, Dan Bianco, and by wife Marcia, whom he shuns because she has been unfaithful to him.
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
, 1h28Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Joseph Cotten, Van Johnson, Ruth Roman, Jack Carson, Margaret Hayes, Bruce Bennett
Roles Writer
Rating64%
Patrick Martin (Joseph Cotten), known as P.M., is a wealthy attorney and rancher in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. He returns home to find his brother Donald (Van Johnson) hiding in his garage. A former drunkard, Donald had been sent to the penitentiary five years previously for killing a man in a barroom brawl. It was in self-defense but P.M. hadn't defended his brother and he was convicted.
Violent Saturday (1955)
, 1h25Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Lee Marvin, Stephen McNally, Virginia Leith, Tommy Noonan
Roles Ecrivain
Rating68%
Harper (Stephen McNally) is a bank robber posing as a traveling salesman. He arrives in town, soon to be joined by sadistic benzedrine addict Dill (Lee Marvin) and bookish Chapman (J. Carrol Naish).
6 Bridges to Cross (1955)
, 1h36Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams, Jay C. Flippen, Sal Mineo, Jan Merlin
Rating66%
Jerry Florea (Tony Curtis) is planning a heist. The story begins with the events which led a young Florea (Sal Mineo) to become a crook. One day he is shot during a robbery and as a result an ameniable policeman and his wife take him under their wing. As a young man he deludes them, and pretends to no longer have criminal intent and even gets a job at the Brinks. They are unaware he is preparing to rob the establishment. It is only after he and his gang pull off the heist that Florea reconsiders his actions and attempts to make amends for the crime.
The Tall Men (1955)
, 2h2Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell, Harry Shannon, Argentina Brunetti
Rating66%
Ben Allison (Clark Gable) and his brother Clint (Cameron Mitchell) journey to Montana in search of gold. They were on their way home after four years of absence serving the Confederate Army where Ben Allison was a Colonel and they were broke. They come upon wealthy businessman Nathan Stark (Robert Ryan) who they rob and kidnap before he talks them into becoming partners with him on a cattle drive to Montana. As they travel to Texas to buy the cattle, their pack mule loaded with supplies and food fell in a snowy river. They come upon a party of settlers with Nella Turner (Jane Russell) serving as the spokesperson who share their fire and agree to slaughter a mule for food; as they leave the next day they realize the Indians (Sioux) are likely to attack the settlers. Ben believed that unless someone would help, the settlers including Nella would be massacred. Ben told brother Clint and Stark to go on to San Antonio to buy the cattle and he will just join them there. Ben heads back to the settlers camp just in time to see the last of the settlers being attacked by a war party and shoots several of them. He saves Nella Turner (Jane Russell) Ben and Nella have a fling while stuck in a cabin during a snow storm. The love between Nella and Ben abruptly joined the harsh cold winter environment as Nella vehemently disagreed with Ben's plan once they get married. Nella rejects him as he "dreams too small" for just wanting to settle down to a ranch in his hometown of Prairie Dog Creek and she sees Ben's lifestyle as the road to unhappiness given her parents' experience.
The Raid (1954)
, 1h23Directed by Hugo Fregonese
Origin USA
Genres War, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves
Rating67%
In 1864 a group of Confederate prisoners held in a Union prison stockade at Plattsburg, New York, not many miles from the Canadian border, escape. They head for Canada and plan a raid across the border into St. Albans, Vermont, to rob its banks and burn buildings.