Daniel Mainwaring

Scénariste

22 juillet 1902 — 31 janvier 1977 (74 ans)
Daniel Mainwaring (aka Geoffrey Homes) (July 22, 1902 – January 31, 1977) was an American novelist and screenwriter. A native of Oakland, California, he began his professional career as a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle and enjoyed a successful career as a mystery novelist (under the name Geoffrey Homes). He worked as a film publicist and eventually abandoned fiction for a successful career as a screenwriter.

His first novel (and the only one he ever published under his own name), One Against the Earth, was a proletarian novel about a young man born on a California ranch who becomes a drifter and is eventually unjustly accused of attacking a child, was published in 1932. He made his real mark, however, with a string of hard-boiled mystery novels (mostly with small-town California settings), the first of which was The Man Who Murdered Himself (1936).

His final published novel, Build My Gallows High (William Morrow & Co., 1946), is generally regarded as his best—and its adaptation (by "Homes" himself) into the film noir classic Out of the Past assured his place in film history. Mainwaring explained to interviewer Pat McGilligan that he regarded the novel as a departure from his earlier literary efforts:

With Build My Gallows High, I wanted to get away from straight mystery novels. Those detective stories are a bore to write. You've got to figure out "whodunit". I'd get to the end and have to say whodunit and be so mixed up I couldn't decide myself.

(Wikipedia)

Films & Séries sur Plex

  • Le voyage de la peur
    Le voyage de la peur1953
  • Un pruneau pour Joe
    Un pruneau pour Joe1955
  • Le Dernier Bastion
    Le Dernier Bastion1951
  • Dangerous Passage
    Dangerous Passage1944
  • Big Town After Dark
    Big Town After Dark1947
  • Le Marais en Feu
    Le Marais en Feu1946
  • The Californians
    The Californians2 saisons

Connue pour

  • L'Invasion des profanateurs de sépultures
    L'Invasion des profanateurs de sépultures1956
  • La Griffe du passé
    La Griffe du passé1947
  • Contre toute attente
    Contre toute attente1984
  • Ça commence à Vera Cruz
    Ça commence à Vera Cruz1949
  • Le voyage de la peur
    Le voyage de la peur1953
  • Atlantis, Terre engloutie
    Atlantis, Terre engloutie1961
  • Roadblock
    Roadblock1951
  • Une ville passe par l'enfer
    Une ville passe par l'enfer1955
  • Un pruneau pour Joe
    Un pruneau pour Joe1955
  • Haines
    Haines1950
  • Le Grand Attentat
    Le Grand Attentat1951
  • Le Dernier Bastion
    Le Dernier Bastion1951
  • Trafiquants d'armes à Cuba
    Trafiquants d'armes à Cuba1958
  • Dangerous Passage
    Dangerous Passage1944
  • La reine du hold-up
    La reine du hold-up1952
  • La révolte des esclaves
    La révolte des esclaves1960
  • Space Master X-7
    Space Master X-71958
  • Roughshod
    Roughshod1949
  • Le Marais en Feu
    Le Marais en Feu1946
  • Les Clairons sonnent la charge
    Les Clairons sonnent la charge1952

Filmographie

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The Gun Runners · as Screenplay
1958
Space Master X-7 · as Screenplay
1958
Cole Younger, Gunfighter · as Screenplay
1957
1956
Thunderstorm · as Screenplay
1956
1955
The Phenix City Story · as Screenplay
1955
A Bullet for Joey · as ScreenplaySur Plex
1955
An Annapolis Story · as Screenplay
1954
The Desperado · as Screenplay
1954
Black Horse Canyon · as Screenplay
1954
Southwest Passage · as Screenplay
1954
1953
1953
1952
Bugles in the Afternoon · as Screenplay
1952
This Woman Is Dangerous · as Screenplay
1951
The Last Outpost · as ScreenplaySur Plex
1950
1950
The Eagle and the Hawk · as Screenplay
1949
The Big Steal · as Screenplay
1949
Roughshod · as Screenplay
1947
Out of the Past · as Screenplay
1946
Swamp Fire · as ScreenplaySur Plex
1946
They Made Me a Killer · as Screenplay
1946
Tokyo Rose · as Screenplay
1945
Scared Stiff · as Screenplay
1944
1944
Crime by Night · as Novel
1941

1967
Mannix · as Written By
1967
Cimarron Strip · as Written By
1967
Custer · as Written By
1965
A Man Called Shenandoah · as Written By
1965
The Legend of Jesse James · as Written By
1961
1960
1960
1960
Outlaws · as Written By
1959
Adventures in Paradise · as Written By
1957
1957
The Californians · as Story BySur Plex
1957
The Restless Gun · as Teleplay
1957
The Thin Man · as Written By
1956
Wire Service · as Story
1954
The Lineup · as Written By
1953
The Hitch-Hiker · as StorySur Plex
1951
Roadblock · as Story
1951
The Tall Target · as Story
1948
Big Town Scandal · as Radio Program Big Town
1947
Big Town After Dark · as Radio Program: "big Town"Sur Plex
1946
Big Town · as Story