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Martin Goldsmith is a Scriptwriter American born on 6 november 1913
Martin M. Goldsmith est un écrivain et un scénariste américain né le 6 novembre 1913 à New York (État de New York) et mort le 24 mai 1994 à Los Angeles (Californie).
Il déménage en 1938 à Los Angeles, écrit son troisième roman, puis vend les droits d'adaptation de Detour à Producers Releasing Corporation, une des sociétés de production de Poverty Row, à condition de pouvoir écrire lui-même le scénario. Il continuera par la suite à écrire, ce qui lui permettra de financer ses voyages.
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Martin Goldsmith vit sa jeunesse à New York, mais quitte l'école à l'adolescence. Il part ensuite sur les routes à travers les États-Unis. Il commence alors à écrire et vend des nouvelles à divers magazines. Au milieu des années 1930, il est au Mexique, où il écrit son premier roman, Double Jeopardy. De retour à New York, il écrit Detour, qui lui vaut de bonnes critiques.Il déménage en 1938 à Los Angeles, écrit son troisième roman, puis vend les droits d'adaptation de Detour à Producers Releasing Corporation, une des sociétés de production de Poverty Row, à condition de pouvoir écrire lui-même le scénario. Il continuera par la suite à écrire, ce qui lui permettra de financer ses voyages.
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Narrow Margin (1990)
, 1h37Directed by Peter Hyams
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James Sikking, J. T. Walsh, M. Emmet Walsh, Harris Yulin
Roles Original Story
Rating65%
Carol Hunnicut (Anne Archer) goes out on a blind date set up by her friend, in a hotel restaurant in Los Angeles with Michael Tarlow (J. T. Walsh), a lawyer about whom she knows very little. When Tarlow receives a message during dinner to call a client, she accompanies him to his hotel suite while he makes the call. While she is in the bathroom in the suite, the client, gangster Leo Watts (Harris Yulin), arrives in person with one of his hit men, Jack Wootton (Nigel Bennett). Watts accuses Tarlow of stealing money from him. After a fearful Tarlow admits that he did, Wootton shoots him to death. Carol witnesses Tarlow's admission that he stole the money and the murder itself from an adjacent room, but Watts and Wootton do not detect her. After they leave, she waits for almost an hour before fleeing the scene. Fearing for her life, Carol does not report the murder to the authorities.
Cast a Long Shadow (1959)
, 1h22Directed by Thomas Carr
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Terry Moore, John Dehner, Terry Moore, James Best, Denver Pyle
Roles Screenstory
Rating61%
Matt Brown inherits a cattle ranch which he discovers is deep in debt. He goes on a cattle drive to raise money.
The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)
, 1h21Directed by Joseph M. Newman
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Richard Anderson, Nancy Gates, James Westerfield
Rating60%
Après avoir abattu un officier de la Cavalerie par légitime défense pour une histoire de femme, le chasseur Bat Masterson se rend dans la ville de Dodge City où il retrouve son frère Ed, devenu marshall. Avec le soutien de sa fiancée Pauline et de son beau-père, le révérend Howard, Ed présente sa candidature pour le poste de shérif, face au corrompu Jim Regan. Bat décide alors de s'installer dans la ville. Il se lie vite d'amitié avec le docteur Sam Tremain puis s'éprend de la jolie Lily, une veuve qui peine à gérer le Saloon Lady Gay. Pour l'aider à remonter ses finances, Bat devient joueur professionnel, s'associe avec elle et investit une forte somme d'argent. Le succès du Saloon cause des problèmes de jalousie puis, un soir, Ed est tué par Dave Rudabaugh, cousin de l'officier que Bat a jadis abattu. Lassés par la violence perpétrée par les hommes de Regan, les notables de la ville décident de nommer Bat au poste de shérif afin de faire régner la loi.
Fort Massacre (1958)
, 1h20Directed by Joseph M. Newman
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Forrest Tucker, Susan Cabot, John Russell, George N. Neise, Anthony Caruso
Roles Ecrivain
Rating61%
An embittered cavalry sergeant must take over his regiment after their commanding officer is killed during an ambush. Vinson is driven by his hatred of Apaches, who were responsible for the death of his wife and children. He and his remaining men, including Travis and McGurney, try to ride 100 miles to the safety of Fort Crane, a fictional analogue of Fort Craig in New Mexico territory. Along the way they attack an Indian band, despite being heavily outnumbered. Vinson's vengeance knows no bounds, until Travis is ultimately forced to take a stand and confront him.
Hell's Island (1955)
, 1h24Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Mary Murphy, John Payne, Eduardo Noriega, Francis L. Sullivan, Eduardo Noriega, Arnold Moss
Roles Story
Rating58%
After being dumped by his fiancée, hard-drinking and depressed Mark Cormack (John Payne) loses his job in the Los Angeles district attorney's office and serves as bouncer in a Las Vegas casino.
Overland Pacific (1954)
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Jock Mahoney, John Mahoney, Peggie Castle, Walter Sande, Adele Jergens, Pat Hogan
Rating54%
Ross Granger is hired by the Overland Pacific railroad to investigate sabotage. Posing as a telegraph operator, Granger goes to Oaktown, where a fellow Civil War veteran he knows, Del Stewart, is now owner of the Silver Dollar saloon.
Mission Over Korea (1953)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres War
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors John Hodiak, John Derek, Audrey Totter, Maureen O'Sullivan, Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman
Roles Writer
Rating54%
In June 1950, while stationed at Kimpo, South Korea, Captain George Slocum (John Hodiak) finds out from his friend, Lieutenant Jerry Barker (Todd Karns), that he has to go to Japan. At the airport, he meets Barker's younger brother, Pete (John Derek), who takes up a Stinson L-5 Sentinel liaison aircraft and begins showing off. George reprimands him for careless flying, but sticks up for him when the military police want to arrest Pete.
The Narrow Margin (1952)
, 1h11Directed by Richard Fleischer, William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert, Don Beddoe, Queenie Leonard
Roles Story
Rating75%
Detective Sergeant Walter Brown (Charles McGraw) of the Los Angeles Police Department and his partner are assigned to protect a mob boss's widow, Mrs. Frankie Neall (Marie Windsor), as she rides a train from Chicago to Los Angeles to testify before a grand jury. She is also carrying a payoff list that belonged to her murdered husband. On the way to pick her up, Brown bets his partner and friend, Sergeant Gus Forbes (Don Beddoe), what she will be like: "She's the sixty cent special. Cheap. Flashy. Strictly poison under the gravy."
Shakedown (1950)
, 1h20Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Chester Conklin, Brian Donlevy, Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, Lawrence Tierney, Bruce Bennett
Roles Ecrivain
Rating70%
Unscrupulous newspaper photographer Jack Early (Duff) is sent to take a picture of racketeer Nick Palmer (Brian Donlevy), who doesn't like to be captured on celluloid. Palmer takes a liking to Early and asks him to frame his henchmen Colton (Tierney). Duff double-crosses Palmer and informes Colton that his boss had planned to frame him. Shortly afterward Palmer is killed by a car bomb and Duff becomes famous for taking a picture of the event. Eventually Duff is himself killed by Colton but he manages to snap a picture of his murderer in the act.
Blind Spot (1947)
, 1h13Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, Steven Geray, James Bell, William Forrest, Harry Strang
Rating66%
A mystery writer hates his publisher and during the same night he get blind drunk the same publisher is murdered. The writer is the key suspect.
The Lone Wolf in Mexico (1947)
, 1h9Directed by D. Ross Lederman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Crime
Actors Gerald Mohr, Eric Blore, Sheila Ryan, Jacqueline deWit, Bernard Nedell, John Gallaudet
Rating62%
Former jewel looter Michael Lanyard (The Lone Wolf), who has since been working as a private investigator, is accused of murdering Leon, a Mexican casino operative at the El Paseo joint. This incident is succeeded by another murder, this time of Sharon, a jeweller's spouse and gambling addict. The Lone Wolf seeks to clear his name by tracking the mastermind down once and for all. Before he can, he is arrested but manages to escape. The film ends with a largely unresolved mystery.
Detour (1945)
, 1h8Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Esther Howard, Claudia Drake, Don Brodie, Harry Strang
Roles Novel
Rating72%
Piano player Al (Tom Neal) is bitter about having to work in a New York nightclub. After his girlfriend Sue (Claudia Drake) leaves to seek fame in Hollywood, he decides to join her. With little money, he has to hitchhike his way across the country.
Dangerous Intruder (1945)
, 1h5Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Charles Arnt, Veda Ann Borg, Tom Keene, Fay Helm, Forrest Taylor, Lloyd Ingraham
Rating58%
New-York-bound hitchhiker Jenny (Borg) is accidentally struck by a car. The driver, art dealer Max Ducane (Arnt), offers to take her into his home until she can resume traveling. Later, Ducane's wife is murdered and Jenny determines to find the killer. With the aid of detective Curtis (Powers), she discovers that Ducane is the murderer, having killed his wife in order to have the funds to finance his antique collection. When she tries to get away the murderer is killed in a car crash when trying to run her down.