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Andrew L. Stone is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Editor and Original Music Composer American born on 16 july 1902 at Oakland (USA)

Andrew L. Stone

Andrew L. Stone
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Nationality USA
Birth 16 july 1902 at Oakland (USA)
Death 9 june 1999 (at 96 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Andrew L. Stone (July 16, 1902, Oakland, California – June 9, 1999, Los Angeles, California) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer.

Biography

Né à Oakland en Californie, il fréquente l'université de Californie puis part travailler à Hollywood pour les studios de cinéma. Après plusieurs années à exercer des petits métiers de l'ombre, il finance son diplôme de réalisateur et son premier court-métrage qu'il réalise en 1927. Sa carrière décolle au cours des années 1940. Il signe plusieurs comédies musicales de qualité qui sont salués par la critique, comme Magie musicale, Symphonie magique ou Hi Diddle Diddle.

Il aborde le genre du film noir et policier en 1950 avec le long-métrage Témoin de la dernière heure dont l'histoire se base sur les méfaits du Tri-State Gang , une bande de malfaiteurs américains auteur de plusieurs braquages et vols au cours des années 1930. Il développe et affine son art dans ses films suivants, notamment dans Meurtre prémédité, Le Piège d'acier, Cri de terreur ou Le Diabolique M. Benton, pour lequel il est nommé à l'Oscar du meilleur scénario original en 1957. Son œuvre est alors proche du thriller policier et psychologique.

Il s'essaie au film catastrophe avec Panique à bord en 1960 puis tourne quelques films dans la lignée des films d'aventures d'alors. Il filme notamment la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans Mot de passe : courage, le récit de la tentative d'évasion d'un soldat britannique prisonnier d'un camp en Pologne. Il revient à ses premiers amours au début des années 1970 avec la réalisation de deux comédies musicales nommées Song of Norway (inspiré de l'opérette Song of Norway ) et Toute la ville danse. Ce sont toutes les deux des échecs commerciaux et critiques qui l'incite à mettre fin à sa carrière.

Stone a, au cours de sa carrière, collaboré à de nombreuses reprises avec sa femme Virginia L. Stone . Reconnu par la profession pour sa riche carrière, il possède son étoile sur la fameuse promenade des célébrités à Hollywood. D'une manière plus anecdotique, il a publié comme romancier de nombreuses novélisations de ces films, dont trois ont fait l'objet d'une traduction en langue française au sein de la collection Un mystère et Série noire à la fin des années 1950.

Il décède en 1999 à Los Angeles.

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Filmography of Andrew L. Stone (27 films)

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Actor

A Crime of Passion, 1h26
Directed by Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Tracey Gold, Powers Boothe, Kelly Rowan, David Chokachi, Rodney Rowland, Kerrie Keane
Roles Matt
Rating57% 2.857162.857162.857162.857162.85716
La police soupçonne une étudiante en médecine d'avoir purement et simplement assassiné son père. La jeune femme, innocente du crime qu'on lui reproche, a bien du mal à faire entendre raison aux enquêteurs. Parallèlement, elle essaie de protéger sa sœur, poursuivie par les véritables tueurs...

Director

The Secret of My Success, 1h52
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors James Booth, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Honor Blackman, Lionel Jeffries, Richard Vernon
Rating51% 2.569052.569052.569052.569052.56905
Thanks to his mother's help, Arthur Tate somehow makes a remarkable rise from a lowly constable to the ruler of a South America country.
Never Put It in Writing, 1h33
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Pat Boone, Milo O'Shea, Reginald Beckwith, Harry Brogan, John Le Mesurier, Polly Adams
Rating66% 3.305973.305973.305973.305973.30597
Stephen Cole est un jeune irlandais avec du caractère, qui pense qu'il mérite une promotion de son employeur. Il soupçonne son patron de népotisme. Stephen envoie une lettre caustique à la société, mais entre temps il reçoit la promotion qu'il attendait encore. Il doit comme un fou courir derrière cette lettre afin de l'intercepter.
The Password Is Courage, 1h56
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Olaf Pooley, Alfred Lynch, Nigel Stock, Richard Carpenter
Rating67% 3.3941153.3941153.3941153.3941153.394115
Charles Coward (Dirk Bogarde) is a senior British NCO incarcerated in the POW camp Stalag VIII-B. He encourages his fellow inmates to escape, and tries to humiliate the German guards at every opportunity.
Ring of Fire, 1h31
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors David Janssen, Frank Gorshin, Doodles Weaver
Rating61% 3.096633.096633.096633.096633.09663
A deputy sheriff, Steve Walsh, encounters a trio of young people in Washington between Shelton and Aberdeen in rural Mason County forest and is taken hostage when the girl, Bobbie, produces a gun. Bobbie later tries to seduce Walsh, who is twice her age and resists. Her companion, Roy, tries to push Walsh off a cliff, but plummets to his own death instead.
The Last Voyage, 1h31
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode, Jack Kruschen
Rating66% 3.345363.345363.345363.345363.34536
The film begins with a view of the SS Claridon, as the narrator (George Furness, who also plays Third Officer Osborne in the film) states, "The SS Claridon, a proud ship, a venerable ship, but as ships go, an old ship. A very old ship. For 38 years she's weathered everything the elements could throw at her. Typhoons, zero-zero fogs, the scorching heat of the tropics. Now she is scheduled for only five more crossings. Then a new ship, a posh, streamlined beauty, will take her place. It is then that the Claridon will pass into oblivion. She has an appointment with the scrapyard. But it's an appointment she'll never keep. For this is her last voyage.
Cry Terror!, 1h32
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors James Mason, Inger Stevens, Rod Steiger, Angie Dickinson, Neville Brand, Kenneth Tobey
Rating66% 3.344263.344263.344263.344263.34426
Paul Hoplin is mastermind of a crime to collect a $500,000 ransom, threatening to use an explosive device that Jim Molner designed. He and his gang are holding Molner, wife Joan and young daughter Patty hostage.
The Decks Ran Red, 1h24
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Crime
Actors James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford, Stuart Whitman, Jack Kruschen, Hank Patterson
Rating61% 3.0511453.0511453.0511453.0511453.051145
A black-and-white movie, with only the title word "Red" in color. The SS Berwind is a rusty old ship chartered by the line to meet high demand. The captain of the Berwind has died and the coroner wants an autopsy due to the suspicious circumstances of the death, which has caused several crew members to leave the ship. In need of a captain, Vic (Harlan Warde) and Mr. Adams (Jonathan Hole) meet with the "White Fleet" USS Mariposa First Officer, Edwin 'Ed' Rummill (James Mason) and his wife Joan (Katharine Bard) to offer him the Berwind. Ed has applied for captain vacancies for five years but has little chance of getting one of the main ships of the line. He is warned of the recent problems by Vic, but agrees--against the emotional pleas of his wife--to join the Berwind in New Zealand.
Julie
Julie (1956)
, 1h39
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan, Frank Lovejoy, Jack Kelly, Ann Robinson
Rating61% 3.096883.096883.096883.096883.09688
A former stewardess, widow Julie Benton is terrorized by her insanely jealous second husband, Lyle. It becomes a life-or-death matter after friend Cliff Henderson relays his suspicions to Julie that her first husband's death might not have been a suicide.
The Night Holds Terror, 1h26
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Jack Kelly, Vince Edwards, Hildy Parks, John Cassavetes, David Cross, Jack Kruschen
Rating62% 3.1430353.1430353.1430353.1430353.143035
Family man Gene Courtier makes the mistake of picking up a hitch-hiker, Victor Gosset, a wanted criminal.
A Blueprint for Murder, 1h17
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill, Catherine McLeod, Jack Kruschen, Barney Phillips
Rating66% 3.3426753.3426753.3426753.3426753.342675
Whitney "Cam" Cameron (Joseph Cotten) arrives at a hospital to be with his widowed sister-in-law Lynne (Jean Peters), whose stepdaughter Polly has died under mysterious circumstances. A doctor cannot determine the cause of the child's death.
The Steel Trap, 1h25
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale, Walter Sande, Carleton Young, Katherine Warren
Rating68% 3.4422953.4422953.4422953.4422953.442295
With a million dollars cash in the vault, Jim Osborne (Joseph Cotten), an assistant bank manager in Los Angeles, is tempted to steal from his own bank and flee the country. Doing research at the library, he learns that Brazil does not have an extradition treaty with the United States. If he steals the money at close of business on a Friday, he will have time to travel to Brazil before the theft is even discovered. However, the season when the bank opens on Saturdays is about to begin, so he must take action the same week or else wait for months.
Confidence Girl, 1h21
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Tom Conway, Hillary Brooke, Jack Kruschen, Walter Kingsford, John Gallaudet, Aline Towne
Rating60% 3.0008553.0008553.0008553.0008553.000855
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