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William R. Burnett is a Scriptwriter, Continuity and Additional Dialogue American born on 25 november 1899 at Springfield (USA)
William Riley Burnett (Springfield, Ohio, 25 octobre 1899 - Santa Monica, 25 avril 1982) est un écrivain de roman noir et un scénariste américain.
Burnett affirmait avoir forgé son style grâce à la lecture assidue d'auteurs français : Honoré de Balzac, Prosper Mérimée, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant.
Il se voit décerné l'Edgar du grand maître (Grand Master Award) par le Mystery Writers of America en 1980.
La moitié de ses livres sont traduits en français, surtout dans les collections Série noire et Rivages/Noir.
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Birth name William Riley Burnett
Nationality USA
Birth 25 november 1899 at Springfield (USA)
Death 25 april 1982 (at 82 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 25 november 1899 at Springfield (USA)
Death 25 april 1982 (at 82 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Biography
Après l'obtention d'un diplôme en journalisme de l'Université d'État de l'Ohio à Columbus, il fait plusieurs petits métiers, dont celui de statisticien pour l'État de l'Ohio, et écrit cinq romans qui ne trouvent pas d'éditeur. Déçu, il part pour Chicago où son travail à la réception d'un hôtel lui permet d'observer le monde des truands et des trafics en tout genre. Il trouve là son inspiration et publie Little Caesar qui remporte un vif succès. Après la réussite de l'adaptation au cinéma réalisé par Mervyn LeRoy qui révèle Edward G. Robinson, il se rend à Hollywood où il travaille sur le scénario ou l'adaptation de près de cinquante films (Scarface). Il est nommé pour l'Oscar du Meilleur scénario en 1943 pour La Sentinelle du Pacifique de John Farrow et au trophée de la Writers Guild of America en 1964 pour La Grande Évasion de John Sturges. Sa carrière de scénariste ne l'empêche pas de continuer à publier des romans comme The Asphalt Jungle en 1949, premier tome d'une trilogie, que John Huston adapte l'année suivante.Burnett affirmait avoir forgé son style grâce à la lecture assidue d'auteurs français : Honoré de Balzac, Prosper Mérimée, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant.
Il se voit décerné l'Edgar du grand maître (Grand Master Award) par le Mystery Writers of America en 1980.
La moitié de ses livres sont traduits en français, surtout dans les collections Série noire et Rivages/Noir.
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(1962)(Writer)
(1945)(Scriptwriter)
(1931)(Novel)
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Cool Breeze (1972)
, 1h41Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Thalmus Rasulala, James Watkins, Julian Christopher, Judy Pace, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Raymond St. Jacques
Roles Novel
Rating54%
Sidney Lord Jones is a convicted felon who is granted an early release by the parole board in San Quentin. While imprisoned, he learns about the underworld diamond trade from reading and studying trade magazines. It motivates him to plan a heist to steal $3 million worth of diamonds from the largest diamond brokerage on the Pacific Coast.
Stiletto (1969)
, 1h38Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Alex Cord, Britt Ekland, Patrick O'Neal, Joseph Wiseman, Barbara McNair, John Dehner
Roles Writer
Rating51%
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
, 2h28Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, Arme nucléaire
Actors Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Tony Bill, Lloyd Nolan, Alf Kjellin
Rating65%
A satellite reenters the atmosphere and ejects a capsule which parachutes to the Arctic, coordinates 85N 21W (approx 320 miles WNW of Nord, Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean ice pack). During an ice storm, a figure soon approaches, guided by a homing beacon, while a second person secretly watches from nearby.
The Jackals (1967)
, 1h36Directed by Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Vincent Price, Patrick Mynhardt, Gert Van den Bergh
Roles Story
Rating52%
Gold miner (Vincent Price) and his granddaughter (Diana Ivarson) living in South Africa are besieged by a group of bank robbers, led by 'Stretch' Hawkins (Robert Gunner) for the prospectors gold.
4 for Texas (1963)
, 1h50Directed by Robert Aldrich, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Victor Buono
Roles Writer
Rating54%
In 1870, a shipment of $100,000 being transported by stagecoach to Galveston, Texas, is the object of a tug-of-war in the desert between Zack Thomas (Frank Sinatra) and Joe Jarrett (Dean Martin), who first must stave off an outlaw band led by Matson (Charles Bronson).
The Great Escape (1963)
, 2h45Directed by John Sturges, John Flynn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Motocyclette, Political films, Évasion, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence
Rating81%
In 1943, having expended enormous resources on recapturing escaped Allied prisoners of war (POWs), the Germans move the most determined to a new, high-security prisoner of war camp. The commandant, Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger (Hannes Messemer), tells the senior British officer, Group Captain Ramsey (James Donald), "There will be no escapes from this camp." Von Luger points out the various features of the new camp designed to prevent escape, as well as the perks the prisoners will receive as an incentive not to try. After several failed escape attempts on the first day, the POWs settle into life at the prison camp.
Cairo (1963)
, 1h31Directed by Wolf Rilla
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamama, John Meillon, Ahmed Mazhar, Eric Pohlmann
Roles Novel
Rating54%
Pickering, surnommé « Le Major » en raison de son élégance, sort de prison. Durant sa longue peine, il a tout de même mis au point un dernier coup : Dérober les bijoux du Pharaon Toutânkhamon, exposé dans un musée en Égypte. Il débarque au Caire, retrouve ses anciens complices et leur explique son projet minutieusement préparé. Mais alors que plan d'action se déroule sans encombre, une alarme se déclenche...
Sergeants 3 (1962)
, 1h52Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Poésie, Adaptation d'un poème
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, Ruta Lee
Roles Writer
Rating59%
L'action se déroule à Medicine Bend, une bourgade sur les hauteurs montagneuses du Dakota. Attaquée par des Indiens, la personne chargée du télégraphe a le temps, avant sa mort, d'envoyer un message au fort McClelland. Le colonel Collingwood, le commandant du fort, envoie sur place une escouage dirigée par trois amis : les sergents Merry, Deal et Barrett. Un ancien esclave noir, qui souhaite s'engager dans l'U.S. Cavalry, les suit malgré l'interdiction qui lui en a été signifiée. Une fois arrivés à Medicine Bend, l'équipe ne trouve aucune trace des habitants et sont attaqués par les guerriers de Mountain Hawk.
The Lawbreakers (1961)
, 1h19Directed by Joseph M. Newman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Warden, Vera Miles, William Smith, Robert Douglas, Arch Johnson, Noreen Corcoran
Roles Writer
Rating68%
Allen Bardeman (Robert Douglas) is a prominent, married lawyer who collects money from the numbers racket for the syndicate. His legal secretary, Angela Walsh (Vera Miles), is also his mistress, and he provides her with a house of her own, where Sam Henry (Robert Bailey) – a corrupt New York City administrator who acts as a "bag man" for the syndicate – makes a weekly visit to pick up money from Bardeman. Bardeman 's lavish lifestyle and tax problems have placed him deeply in debt. Angela urges him to solve his money problems by staging a robbery of the syndicate 's money, using a man he knows will do it for him. She then visits Ed Rackin (Ken Lynch), a nightclub owner who looks out for the syndicate 's local interests and who Henry also visits to collect syndicate numbers proceeds. Their conversation reveals that Bardeman is unaware that they know one another, and that Angela is scheming with Rackin to make off with Bardeman 's money after the staged robbery and run off together.
September Storm (1960)
, 1h39Directed by Byron Haskin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors Joanne Dru, Mark Stevens, Robert Strauss, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Véra Valmont
Rating50%
American fashion model Anne Traymore, swimming off the isle of Majorca, loses a bracelet, which the handsome Manuel del Rio Montoya returns to her. She believes he owns a beautiful yacht called The Swan, but he merely works on it for the wealthy Rene LeClerc.
The Badlanders (1958)
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance, Western
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado, Kent Smith, Claire Kelly, Nehemiah Persoff
Roles Novel
Rating63%
In 1898, two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison. One, mining engineer and geologist Peter Van Hoek (Ladd), the "Dutchman," tells the warden he was framed for the robbery of a gold shipment from the Lisbon Mine. The other, John McBain (Borgnine), killed Bascomb, the man who cheated him out of his land.
Short Cut to Hell (1957)
, 1h29Directed by James Cagney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Georgann Johnson, Murvyn Vye, Peter Baldwin, Jacques Aubuchon, Richard Hale, Milton Frome
Rating59%
Kyle Niles, un tueur à gages, est embauché par une de ses connaissances pour abattre deux hommes. Il accepte, et, après avoir accompli son travail, il reçoit le salaire dû. Mais il ignore que l'argent qu'il touche est celui d'un hold-up, et que chaque numéro de billet est connu par la police. Pris en tenaille, Kyle enlève la fiancée du policier qui le poursuit, afin de couvrir sa fuite...
Short Cut to Hell (1957)
, 1h29Directed by James Cagney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Georgann Johnson, Murvyn Vye, Jacques Aubuchon, Peter Baldwin, Richard Hale, Milton Frome
Rating59%
Professional hitman Kyle Niles (Ivers) is hired to commit two murders and afterwards double-crossed by his employer Bahrwell (Aubuchon). Seeking revenge, Kyle kidnaps singer Glory Hamilton (Johnson), the girlfriend of the police detective in charge of his pursuit (Bishop). Kyle is finally able to get even with Bahrwell, and in the process reveals his long-dormant "good" side.
Accused of Murder (1956)
, 1h14Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors David Brian, Sidney Blackmer, Vera Ralston, Virginia Grey, Warren Stevens, Lee Van Cleef
Roles Novel
Rating55%
Nightclub singer Ilona Vance (Vera Ralston) is accused of murder, as she was the last person to see crooked attorney Frank Hobart (Sidney Blackmer) alive. Lt. Hargis (David Brian) attempts to prove her innocence.
Captain Lightfoot (1955)
, 1h32Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow, Finlay Currie, Kathleen Ryan, Denis O'Dea
Roles Novel
Rating61%
En 1815, Michael Martin est membre d'un groupe révolutionnaire irlandais. Il est obligé de passer à la clandestinité et devient le second d'un célèbre capitaine rebelle