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Richard Murphy is a Director, Scriptwriter, Art Direction and Additional Writing American born on 8 may 1912 at Boston (USA)
Richard Murphy (May 8, 1912 – May 19, 1993) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer.
While in the Army Air Forces during World War II, Murphy reached the rank of captain seeing action in the Pacific theater countries of New Guinea and the Philippines. Murphy returned to the States and started working for 20th Century Fox. In 1947 he wrote the award winning film Boomerang!. He received the first of two Oscar nominations for this screenplay, with his second in 1953 for the World War II film The Desert Rats. He also directed a few films before moving into television in the 1960s when he wrote and created television series. Murphy's last screenplay was for The Kidnapping of the President in 1980.
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Nationality USA
Birth 8 may 1912 at Boston (USA)
Death 19 may 1993 (at 81 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Writers Guild of America Award
Birth 8 may 1912 at Boston (USA)
Death 19 may 1993 (at 81 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Writers Guild of America Award
Biography
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Murphy worked for Literary Digest in the 1930s before leaving in 1937 to work in the short film department at MGM. Murphy's first screenwriting credit was for providing the story for Back in the Saddle, a 1941 Gene Autry western.While in the Army Air Forces during World War II, Murphy reached the rank of captain seeing action in the Pacific theater countries of New Guinea and the Philippines. Murphy returned to the States and started working for 20th Century Fox. In 1947 he wrote the award winning film Boomerang!. He received the first of two Oscar nominations for this screenplay, with his second in 1953 for the World War II film The Desert Rats. He also directed a few films before moving into television in the 1960s when he wrote and created television series. Murphy's last screenplay was for The Kidnapping of the President in 1980.
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, 1h39Directed by Richard Murphy
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Jack Lemmon, Rick Nelson, John Lund, Chips Rafferty, Tom Tully, Joby Baker
Rating62%
During World War II, Lt. Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon), an expert yachtsman in civilian life, now based at Townsville, Queensland, Australia, is surprised to be assigned command of a sailing ship, the USS Echo. The only crew member who knows how to work a ship with sails is eager young Ensign Tommy Hanson (Ricky Nelson), who cost Crandall a yacht race with a mistake before the war.
, 1h39Directed by Richard Murphy
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Actors Rick Nelson, Jack Lemmon, John Lund, Chips Rafferty, Tom Tully, Joby Baker
Rating62%
Le lieutenant Rip Grandall hérite d'une mission: il doit, en 1943, conduire un bateau d'Australie en Nouvelle Guinée. Le rafiot ne paie pas de mine, mais Rip parvient à s'acquitter de sa mission. Au moment de prendre l'avion pour le retour, il apprend, stupéfait, qu'une autre mission a été confiée a son remplaçant avec le même rafiot.
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Milwaukee, Minnesota (2003)
, 1h35Directed by Allan Mindel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Troy Garity, Alison Folland, Randy Quaid, Bruce Dern, Hank Harris, Debra Monk
Roles Writer
Rating60%
Albert est un être à part. Il entend les poissons parler sous la glace. C'est grâce à cet atout caché qu'il est devenu champion de la pêche à la ligne. Il a bien vingt ans passé mais Maman continue à l'accompagner aux tournois de pêche qui lui ont déjà fait gagner des centaines de milliers de dollars.
, 1h54Directed by George Mendeluk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors William Shatner, Hal Holbrook, Van Johnson, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Shepherd, Michael J. Reynolds
Rating54%
During a diplomatic visit to Toronto, the U.S. President Adam Scott (Hal Holbrook) is abducted by a South American terrorist, Roberto Assanti (Miguel Fernandes), and his female accomplice, and is held captive in an armored truck booby-trapped with high explosives. The elaborate bomb keeps the Secret Service at bay until Assanti is killed. However, the explosives are timed to detonate at midnight, so Secret Service agent Jerry O'Connor (Shatner) has to find a way into the truck to rescue the President before it detonates. Also involved are U.S Vice-President Ethan Richards (Johnson) and his wife Beth (Gardner).
, 1h39Directed by Richard Murphy
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Jack Lemmon, Rick Nelson, John Lund, Chips Rafferty, Tom Tully, Joby Baker
Rating62%
During World War II, Lt. Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon), an expert yachtsman in civilian life, now based at Townsville, Queensland, Australia, is surprised to be assigned command of a sailing ship, the USS Echo. The only crew member who knows how to work a ship with sails is eager young Ensign Tommy Hanson (Ricky Nelson), who cost Crandall a yacht race with a mistake before the war.
, 1h39Directed by Richard Murphy
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Actors Rick Nelson, Jack Lemmon, John Lund, Chips Rafferty, Tom Tully, Joby Baker
Rating62%
Le lieutenant Rip Grandall hérite d'une mission: il doit, en 1943, conduire un bateau d'Australie en Nouvelle Guinée. Le rafiot ne paie pas de mine, mais Rip parvient à s'acquitter de sa mission. Au moment de prendre l'avion pour le retour, il apprend, stupéfait, qu'une autre mission a été confiée a son remplaçant avec le même rafiot.
The Last Angry Man (1959)
, 1h40Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Luther Adler, Joby Baker, Joanna Moore
Roles Adaptation
Rating68%
As the fiercely dedicated general practitioner who tries to help the sick, the poor and the unfortunate in his decrepit neighborhood, Dr. Sam Abelman (Paul Muni) is a testy old man who faces life without compromise and Woodrow Thrasher (David Wayne) is a troubled television executive fighting to preserve his career.
Compulsion (1959)
, 1h43Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, E. G. Marshall, Martin Milner
Rating73%
Artie Strauss and Judd Steiner (Bradford Dillman and Dean Stockwell) kill a boy on his way home from school in order to commit the "perfect crime". Strauss tries to cover it up, but they are caught when police find a key piece of evidence — Steiner's glasses, which he inadvertently leaves at the scene of the crime. Famed attorney Jonathan Wilk (Orson Welles) takes their case, saving them from hanging by making an impassioned closing argument against capital punishment.
Broken Lance (1954)
, 1h36Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films about families, Children's films
Actors Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Katy Jurado, Hugh O'Brian
Rating68%
Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) is a ranch owner who has tried to raise his sons to carry on the fierce, hard-working Irish settlement spirit that helped make him a success. However, as a consequence, he never learned to show his three sons from his first marriage the affection they yearned for and treats his boys little better than the hired help.
The Desert Rats (1953)
, 1h28Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas, Torin Thatcher, Chips Rafferty
Roles Writer
Rating66%
In mid-April 1941, during World War II, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (James Mason) and his Afrika Korps have driven the British Army into headlong retreat across North Africa toward Egypt and the vital Suez Canal. Standing in Rommel's way is Tobruk, a constant threat to his supply lines. The 9th Australian Division are asked to hold the port for two months, at which time they are to be relieved.
Les Miserables (1952)
, 1h41Directed by Lewis Milestone, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Robert Newton, Edmund Gwenn, Sylvia Sidney, Cameron Mitchell
Roles Writer
Rating67%
The film greatly differs from the novel. Entire episodes and many characters are dropped, including the Thénardiers and Enjolras. The character of Robert is entirely new.
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
, 1h33Directed by Henry Hathaway, Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Children's films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Gary Cooper, Jane Greer, Millard Mitchell, Eddie Albert, John McIntire, Ray Collins
Roles Writer
Rating62%
At Norfolk Naval Base in the opening months of World War II, Lieutenant John W. Harkness (Cooper), a newly commissioned officer, bids goodbye to wife Ellie (Jane Greer) and reports aboard the PC-1168 unaware that his civilian background in engineering and his Rutgers education has elected him, by means of a hole punched in an IBM card, to head a secret project and command the ship. The Navy has installed a steam engine and an experimental evaporator-condenser in the ship to test its feasibility in patrol craft and has assigned Harkness to conduct the sea trials.
Panic in the Streets (1950)
, 1h32Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films about viral outbreaks, Road movies, Children's films, Chase films, Disaster films
Actors Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel, Tommy Cook
Rating71%
After brawling over a card game in the wharf area of New Orleans, a man named Kochak (Lewis Charles), suffering visibly from a flu-like illness, is killed by gangster Blackie (Jack Palance) and his two flunkies, Kochak's cousin Poldi (Guy Thomajan) and a man named Fitch (Zero Mostel). They leave the body on the docks, and later when the dead man, who carries no identification, is brought to the morgue, the coroner grows suspicious about the bacteria present in his blood and calls his superior, Dr. Clinton Reed (Richard Widmark), a Lt. Cmdr. doctor working for the U.S. Public Health Service. Reed is enjoying a rare day off with his wife Nancy (Barbara Bel Geddes) and their son Tommy (Tommy Rettig), but decides to inspect the body.
Slattery's Hurricane (1949)
, 1h27Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Météorologie, Transport films, Aviation films, Catastrophe climatique, Children's films, Disaster films
Actors Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Veronica Lake, John Russell, Gary Merrill, Raymond Greenleaf
Rating63%
"...This is a hurricane. Hurricanes are windstorms of great violence several hundred miles in diameter, with a dead calm at the center called the eye. Like whirlpools, they spin rapidly, hurling great destruction in their paths. They're spawned in the doldrums, their father the heat of the sun, their mother the moisture of the sea. From July to December every year, the Caribbean crawls with these evil offspring of the elements..."
Cry of the City (1948)
, 1h35Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters, Betty Garde, Debra Paget
Rating71%
Martin Rome (Richard Conte), a hardened criminal, is recuperating in a hospital from a shootout that leaves a police officer dead. At the hospital, he is briefly visited by his fiancée, Teena Ricante (Debra Paget). A shady lawyer representing another crook, Niles, (Berry Kroeger) claims that he participated in a jewel robbery with her in which a woman was killed. Rome is innocent of the jewel robbery, but the police suspect that he carried out the robbery in conjunction with Teena, and begin a search for her.