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Ranald MacDougall is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 10 march 1915 at Schenectady (USA)

Ranald MacDougall

Ranald MacDougall
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Nationality USA
Birth 10 march 1915 at Schenectady (USA)
Death 12 december 1973 (at 58 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Ranald MacDougall est un scénariste, réalisateur et producteur américain né le 10 mars 1915 à Schenectady, New York (États-Unis), décédé le 12 décembre 1973 à Los Angeles (États-Unis).

Best films

Cleopatra (1963)
(Ecrivain)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
(Scriptwriter)
Objective, Burma! (1945)
(Scriptwriter)

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Filmography of Ranald MacDougall (29 films)

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Director

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County, 1h39
Directed by Ranald MacDougall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Dan Blocker, Nanette Fabray, Jim Backus, Wally Cox, Jack Elam, Henry Jones
Rating61% 3.0986053.0986053.0986053.0986053.098605
In the film, a simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride. However, when Charley, accompanied by many of the townsfolk, gather at the train station to greet the woman on her scheduled arrival date, Charley is publicly embarrassed when she fails to appear. Realizing that he has been suckered out of his savings and feeling like a fool, Charley plans to leave the town for good. This would not be an issue, except that Charley is the town’s only blacksmith and no one else is available to replace him.
Go Naked in the World, 1h43
Directed by Ranald MacDougall, Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution, Films based on plays
Actors Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Franciosa, Ernest Borgnine, Luana Patten, Philip Ober, Bess Flowers
Rating54% 2.7111752.7111752.7111752.7111752.711175
The son of a wealthy Greek immigrant, Nick Stratton (Anthony Franciosa) is attempting to find his own way in the world after returning home to San Francisco following a stint in the Army. His father Pete (Ernest Borgnine) is a self-made millionaire and important in the Greek immigrant community. Pete loves his son but he tries to buy his love and dominate his life like he does his employees and business associates. Nick struggles to assert his own identity but the family pressure and his love for his Father are very strong. Pete wants Nick to marry a nice Greek girl, the daughter of a business associate, but Nick falls in love with Guilietta Cameron (Gina Lollobrigida). He takes her as his date to his parents' wedding anniversary full of members of the Greek immigrant community. Pete reveals to him in no uncertain terms that Guilietta is a prostitute, whose services Pete and many of his friends, who are present at the party, have purchased.
The Subterraneans, 1h29
Directed by Ranald MacDougall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films
Actors Leslie Caron, George Peppard, Janice Rule, Roddy McDowall, Anne Seymour, Jim Hutton
Rating50% 2.5204852.5204852.5204852.5204852.520485
Leo is a 28-year-old novelist who still lives at home with his mother. One night he stumbles upon some beatniks at a coffee house. He falls in love with the beautiful but unstable Mardou Fox.
The World, the Flesh and the Devil, 1h35
Directed by Ranald MacDougall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer, Harry Belafonte
Rating67% 3.394253.394253.394253.394253.39425
African-American coal mine inspector Ralph Burton (Harry Belafonte) becomes trapped underground in a cave-in while inspecting a mine in Pennsylvania. He can hear rescuers digging towards him, but after a few days they slow down and then stop completely. Alarmed, he digs his own way out. Reaching the surface, he finds a deserted world. (No bodies are seen at any time in the film.) Some discarded newspapers provide an explanation: one proclaims "UN Retaliates For Use Of Atomic Poison", another that "Millions Flee From Cities! End Of The World". Ralph later plays tapes at a radio station that an unknown nation had used radioactive isotopes as a weapon, yielding a dust cloud that spread globally and was completely lethal for a five-day period.
Man on Fire
Directed by Ranald MacDougall
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Bing Crosby, Inger Stevens, E. G. Marshall, Richard Eastham, Anne Seymour, Mary Fickett
Rating64% 3.2426353.2426353.2426353.2426353.242635
Two years after her divorce from wealthy businessman Earl Carleton, ex-wife Gwen wants to regain custody of their son, Ted, who is devoted to his father.
Queen Bee
Queen Bee (1955)
, 1h35
Directed by Ranald MacDougall
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Betsy Palmer, Barry Sullivan, Fay Wray, Lucy Marlow
Rating66% 3.3471553.3471553.3471553.3471553.347155
Eva Phillips (Joan Crawford) dominates her Georgia mansion and her husband Avery (Barry Sullivan), an alcoholic mill owner who hates his wife. A cousin, Jennifer Stewart (Lucy Marlow), is pressured into moving in with the family, and she watches in horror as Eva maneuvers to prevent the marriage of Avery's sister Carol (Betsy Palmer) to Judson Prentiss (John Ireland). Carol tells Jennifer to watch out for Eva, and that she read a book about bees and feels that Eva is like a queen bee who stings all her competitors to death. Jennifer refuses to believe such bad sentiments about Eva, and eventually becomes the putative personal assistant to Eva.

Scriptwriter

We're No Angels, 1h42
Directed by Neil Jordan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Buddy films, Chase films
Actors Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore, Hoyt Axton, Bruno Kirby, Ray McAnally
Roles Original Film Writer
Rating61% 3.0506253.0506253.0506253.0506253.050625
A couple of 1930s Great Depression-era convicts, Ned and Jim, jailed on never-specified charges and abused by a ruthless warden, are dragged along when a vicious killer named Bobby escapes the electric chair.
That Man Bolt, 1h43
Directed by Henry Levin, David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Fred Williamson, Teresa Graves, Masatoshi Nakamura, John Orchard, Jack Ging, Kenji Kazama
Rating57% 2.8519652.8519652.8519652.8519652.851965
Courier Jefferson Bolt is asked to take a briefcase from Hong Kong to Mexico City, but he is not told what is in it or the identity of the man who asks him, a man named Griffiths. Convinced he will get good pay and see a few good places, Bolt takes on the job, while looking out for anything suspicious. Soon he does find exotic places, beautiful women, and ruthless gunmen interested in the briefcase.
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County, 1h39
Directed by Ranald MacDougall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Dan Blocker, Nanette Fabray, Jim Backus, Wally Cox, Jack Elam, Henry Jones
Roles Writer
Rating61% 3.0986053.0986053.0986053.0986053.098605
In the film, a simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride. However, when Charley, accompanied by many of the townsfolk, gather at the train station to greet the woman on her scheduled arrival date, Charley is publicly embarrassed when she fails to appear. Realizing that he has been suckered out of his savings and feeling like a fool, Charley plans to leave the town for good. This would not be an issue, except that Charley is the town’s only blacksmith and no one else is available to replace him.
Dark of the Sun, 1h40
Directed by Jack Cardiff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Peter Carsten, Kenneth More, André Morell, Calvin Lockhart
Roles Ecrivain
Rating67% 3.395563.395563.395563.395563.39556
Sometime in the mid-1960s, mercenary Bruce Curry (Rod Taylor) is hired by Congolese President Ubi (Calvin Lockhart) supposedly to rescue the European residents of an isolated town about to be attacked by rebel Simbas in the Congo. But in reality his pressing mission is to retrieve diamonds, worth fifty million dollars, from a mine company's vault. Curry's subordinates include his friend Ruffo (Jim Brown) and alcoholic Doctor Wreid (Kenneth More). Reluctantly he also takes ex-Nazi Henlein (Peter Carsten) on the mission because he needs his military expertise and leadership skills.
Jigsaw
Jigsaw (1968)
, 1h37
Directed by James Goldstone
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, Hope Lange, Pat Hingle, Diana Hyland, Susan Saint James
Rating58% 2.9076252.9076252.9076252.9076252.907625
After someone places sugar cubes laced with LSD in his cup of coffee, Jonathan Fields regains consciousness, only to find a woman drowned in his bathtub and flecks of blood on his hands and clothes.
Fame Is the Name of the Game, 1h40
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Robert Duvall, Jack Klugman, Anthony Franciosa, Jill St John, George Macready, Jack Weston
Roles Teleplay
Rating73% 3.69163.69163.69163.69163.6916
An investigative reporter looks into the murder of a call girl. His investigation unearths her diary, with the names of many prominent people in it. He sets out to find her killer from among the names contained in the diary.
Cleopatra
Cleopatra (1963)
, 4h8
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Darryl F. Zanuck, Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Politique, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau, Hume Cronyn
Roles Ecrivain
Rating70% 3.500673.500673.500673.500673.50067
After the Battle of Pharsalus where Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) has defeated Pompey, Pompey flees to Egypt, hoping to enlist the support of the young Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Richard O'Sullivan) and his sister Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor). The Romans hold, and the armies of Mithridates arrive on Egyptian soil. The following day, Caesar passes judgment. He sentences Ptolemy's lord chamberlain to death for arranging an assassination attempt on Cleopatra. Cleopatra is crowned Queen of Egypt. She dreams of ruling the world with Caesar. When their son Caesarion is born, Caesar accepts him publicly, which becomes the talk of Rome and the Senate.
Go Naked in the World, 1h43
Directed by Ranald MacDougall, Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution, Films based on plays
Actors Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Franciosa, Ernest Borgnine, Luana Patten, Philip Ober, Bess Flowers
Rating54% 2.7111752.7111752.7111752.7111752.711175
The son of a wealthy Greek immigrant, Nick Stratton (Anthony Franciosa) is attempting to find his own way in the world after returning home to San Francisco following a stint in the Army. His father Pete (Ernest Borgnine) is a self-made millionaire and important in the Greek immigrant community. Pete loves his son but he tries to buy his love and dominate his life like he does his employees and business associates. Nick struggles to assert his own identity but the family pressure and his love for his Father are very strong. Pete wants Nick to marry a nice Greek girl, the daughter of a business associate, but Nick falls in love with Guilietta Cameron (Gina Lollobrigida). He takes her as his date to his parents' wedding anniversary full of members of the Greek immigrant community. Pete reveals to him in no uncertain terms that Guilietta is a prostitute, whose services Pete and many of his friends, who are present at the party, have purchased.
The World, the Flesh and the Devil, 1h35
Directed by Ranald MacDougall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer, Harry Belafonte
Roles Auteur
Rating67% 3.394253.394253.394253.394253.39425
African-American coal mine inspector Ralph Burton (Harry Belafonte) becomes trapped underground in a cave-in while inspecting a mine in Pennsylvania. He can hear rescuers digging towards him, but after a few days they slow down and then stop completely. Alarmed, he digs his own way out. Reaching the surface, he finds a deserted world. (No bodies are seen at any time in the film.) Some discarded newspapers provide an explanation: one proclaims "UN Retaliates For Use Of Atomic Poison", another that "Millions Flee From Cities! End Of The World". Ralph later plays tapes at a radio station that an unknown nation had used radioactive isotopes as a weapon, yielding a dust cloud that spread globally and was completely lethal for a five-day period.