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Wendell Mayes is a Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 22 july 1918 at Missouri (USA)

Wendell Mayes

Wendell Mayes
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Nationality USA
Birth 22 july 1918 at Missouri (USA)
Death 28 march 1992 (at 73 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

Wendell Mayes est un scénariste et producteur américain né le 22 juillet 1918 à Hayti, Missouri (États-Unis), décédé le 28 mars 1992 à Santa Monica (Californie).

Best films

The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
(Scriptwriter)
Death Wish (1974)
(Scriptwriter)
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
(Scriptwriter)
The Enemy Below (1957)
(Scriptwriter)

Usually with

Lyle Wheeler
Lyle Wheeler
(5 films)
Dick Powell
Dick Powell
(2 films)
Ben Nye
Ben Nye
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Wendell Mayes (22 films)

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Scriptwriter

Death Wish
Death Wish (2018)
, 1h47
Directed by Eli Roth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Bruce Willis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dean Norris, Elisabeth Shue, Beau Knapp, Kirby Bliss Blanton
Rating62% 3.147993.147993.147993.147993.14799
Le Dr Paul Kersey est un chirurgien urgentiste, honnête et non violent, menant une vie de rêve dans les beaux quartiers de Chicago. Cependant, sa vie bascule après un cambriolage qui tourne mal : sa femme Lucy est sauvagement tuée et sa fille Jordan, âgée de 18 ans, est plongée dans un long coma. Impuissant face à la lenteur de la police à retrouver les coupables, Paul a soif de vengeance ; il souhaite s'acheter une arme dans une armurerie, mais change d'avis. Mais le jour où un homme gravement blessé arrive dans son bloc opératoire et laisse tomber un pistolet sur le sol, Paul s'en empare... et quelques heures plus tard, s'en sert pour empêcher un vol de voiture en tuant de sang froid les deux voleurs... Commence alors une quête de vengeance dans les rues de Chicago la nuit tombée, afin de retrouver les meurtriers de sa femme.
Criminal Behavior, 1h30
Genres Thriller
Actors Farrah Fawcett, A Martinez, Dakin Matthews, Cliff De Young, John Hancock, Angela Paton
Roles Teleplay
Rating53% 2.6821052.6821052.6821052.6821052.682105
Depuis son enfance, Jessie cultive une haine profonde envers la police. Issue d'une famille d'escrocs presque par tradition, elle a cependant choisi de rester du bon côté de la barrière en devenant avocate. Elle est prête à tout quand il s'agit de défendre des innocents. Lorsque la cour lui demande de se pencher sur le dossier d'une nurse arrêtée pour le vol d'un bijou, Jessie découvre que la bague en question provient d'un certain Larry Gaines, un trafiquant véreux..
Monsignor
Monsignor (1982)
, 2h1
Directed by Frank Perry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Films about capital punishment, Children's films
Actors Christopher Reeve, Geneviève Bujold, Fernando Rey, Jason Miller, Joseph Cortese, Adolfo Celi
Rating51% 2.5541552.5541552.5541552.5541552.554155
With the Vatican having financial difficulties during World War II, a young priest from America is sent for, recommended because of his accounting skill.
Love and Bullets, 1h43
Directed by John Huston, Stuart Rosenberg
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Rod Steiger, Henry Silva, Bradford Dillman, Strother Martin
Roles Story
Rating56% 2.8029752.8029752.8029752.8029752.802975
Phoenix Police Detective Charlie Congers is tasked to assist the FBI in bringing a gangster's girlfriend, Jackie Pruitt, back to the USA to testify. The FBI thinks she can give inside information to law enforcement that will put Joe Bomposa behind bars once and for all.
Go Tell the Spartans, 1h54
Directed by Ted Post
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Marc Singer, Jonathan Goldsmith, Joe Unger, David Clennon
Roles Writer
Rating65% 3.2954153.2954153.2954153.2954153.295415
Major Asa Barker (Burt Lancaster) has been given this command: a poorly-manned outpost named Muc Wa in rural South Vietnam somewhere near the rural Da Nang to Phnom Penh (Cambodia) highway that a decade earlier had been the scene of a massacre of French soldiers during the First Indochina War. Barker is a weary infantry veteran in his third war (he served in the Pacific during World War II as well as in the Korean War), who provides veteran supervision to a cadre of advisors attached to a group of South Vietnamese who garrison the deserted village of Muc Wa.
Death Wish
Death Wish (1974)
, 1h33
Directed by Michael Winner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Auto-justice
Actors Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, William Redfield, Steven Keats, Jeff Goldblum
Rating68% 3.449753.449753.449753.449753.44975
Paul Kersey is an architect living in Manhattan with his wife Joanna and daughter Carol Toby. One day, Joanna and Carol are followed home from the store by a group of thugs who break into the apartment, fatally injure Joanna and sexually assault Carol.
The Bank Shot, 1h23
Directed by Gower Champion
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors George C. Scott, Joanna Cassidy, Don Calfa, Sorrell Booke, Bob Balaban, Clifton James
Roles Writer
Rating54% 2.704752.704752.704752.704752.70475
A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in a safer location?
The Poseidon Adventure, 1h57
Directed by Irwin Allen, Ronald Neame
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Adam Baldwin, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall
Rating70% 3.5497053.5497053.5497053.5497053.549705
The SS Poseidon, an ocean liner slated for retirement and scrapping, makes her way across the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea from New York City to Athens. Despite protests from Captain Harrison, who fears for the ship's safety, the representative of her new owners, Mr. Linarcos, insists that she make full speed towards her destination to save money, preventing her from taking on additional ballast.
The Revengers, 1h46
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime, Western
Actors William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode, Roger Hanin, Susan Hayward, Reinhard Kolldehoff
Rating60% 3.0463053.0463053.0463053.0463053.046305
The Civil War is over and Medal of Honor winner John Benedict is a Colorado rancher now, with a wife and four children. His pride and joy, son Morgan, is invited to attend West Point, but prefers to help run his father's ranch.
The Stalking Moon, 1h44
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Themes Films about children
Actors Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster, Frank Silvera, Lonny Chapman, Joaquín Martínez
Roles Adaptation
Rating65% 3.292653.292653.292653.292653.29265
U.S. Army soldiers round up a group of Indians, mostly women and children. Surprisingly, they find among them a white woman and her half-Indian son.
Hotel
Hotel (1967)
, 2h4
Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Rennie, Melvyn Douglas
Roles Adaptation
Rating65% 3.295213.295213.295213.295213.29521
The story takes place at the fictional St Gregory Hotel in New Orleans, owned by Warren Trent (Melvyn Douglas).
Von Ryan's Express, 1h57
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Rail transport films, Political films, Évasion, Children's films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Adolfo Celi, Sergio Fantoni, Brad Dexter
Rating70% 3.5493553.5493553.5493553.5493553.549355
Colonel Joseph Ryan (Frank Sinatra) is a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot who is shot down over Italy. He is captured by Italian troops and taken to a POW camp, run by the cruel Blackshirt Major Basilio Battaglia (Adolfo Celi). The camp is mainly populated by British prisoners.
In Harm's Way, 2h45
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde, Tom Tryon
Rating72% 3.64473.64473.64473.64473.6447
John Wayne stars as U.S. Navy Captain Rockwell "Rock" Torrey, a divorced "second generation Navy" son of a career Chief Petty Officer. A Naval Academy graduate and career officer, Torrey is removed from command of his heavy cruiser for "throwing away the book" when pursuing the enemy and then being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Kirk Douglas portrays Torrey's executive officer, Commander (later Captain) Paul Eddington, a wayward sort of career officer who has resigned as a naval aviator and returned to the surface navy because of an unhappy marriage. His wife's numerous affairs and drunken escapades have become the talk of Honolulu and her death during the Pearl Harbor attack—in the company of an Army Air Corps Officer (Hugh O'Brian), with whom she had just had a wild fling on a local beach—drives Eddington into a bar brawl with a group of other Army Air Corps officers, a subsequent stint in the Pearl Harbor brig, and exile as the "... officer in charge of piers and warehouses ..." in what he calls a "backwater island purgatory.
Advise & Consent, 2h19
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Politic
Themes Politique, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney
Rating76% 3.8448853.8448853.8448853.8448853.844885
The President of the United States (Franchot Tone) nominates Robert A. Leffingwell (Henry Fonda) as Secretary of State. The second-term President, who unbeknownst to the public is ill, has chosen Leffingwell because he does not believe that Vice President Harley Hudson (Lew Ayres)—someone he and others generally tolerate or ignore—could successfully continue the administration's foreign policy should he die.
North to Alaska, 1h57
Directed by John Wayne, Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Stewart Granger, John Wayne, Capucine, Fabian Forte, Ernie Kovacs, Mickey Shaughnessy
Rating68% 3.4473353.4473353.4473353.4473353.447335
After finding gold in Nome, Alaska, George Pratt (Stewart Granger) sends partner Sam McCord (John Wayne) to Seattle, Washington to bring back his fiancée, a French girl whom Sam has never met.