Don Mankiewicz

Nacimiento : 1922-01-01,

Películas

I Want to Live
Screenplay
The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.
Sanctuary of Fear
Supervising Producer
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
Sanctuary of Fear
Writer
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women
Writer
A couple of resourceful, free-wheeling criminal attorneys with an eye for the ladies confront a no-nonsense judge while trying to clear an heiress in the slaying of her husband, although her explanation of a mysterious intruder provides them with a rather weak case.
Lanigan's Rabbi
Writer
In this pilot film, an Irish Catholic police chief and a Jewish rabbi join together to solve the murder of a housekeeper whose body was discovered by the front entrance of the rabbi's synagogue.
The Black Bird
Story
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
The Bait
Teleplay
Tracy Fleming is a widowed police officer, with a young son, who has risen to the role of plainclothes operative. After six women have been raped and killed, Fleming agrees to go undercover in an effort to make herself a target for the killer. The climax places her in a life-and-death struggle with the killer.
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Writer
After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Writer
The pilot film for the long-run series introduced the kindly small-town general practitioner who, following a mild coronary, grudgingly brings in an independent, motorcycling young associate to help share his workload. Welby's lady friend and his family, part of the plot of this movie, were written out of the subsequent series, with only his medical sidekick, Steven Kiley, and their secretary/nurse, Consuelo, remaining as regulars.
Split Second to an Epitaph
Writer
In the second "Ironside" movie, the Chief has his spine jolted during a hospital encounter with a narcotics pusher, not only raising the possibility for an operation that might cure his paralysis but also putting him in jeopardy because he can identify the man who had just shot a guard.
Ironside
Teleplay
Citizens of San Francisco are stunned by the news that Robert Ironside, the city's hard-nosed, tough-talking chief of detectives, has been shot and left for dead while vacationing at his friend the Police Commissioner's rural retreat. Ironside survives the murder attempt, but the bullet has damaged nerves in his spine, leaving him a paraplegic. Unable to gain reinstatement as chief of detectives, Ironside gets permission to continue investigating criminal cases as a citizen volunteer. With the assistance of two former protegees, Det. Sgt. Ed Brown and Officer Eve Whitfield, and a newly-hired aide/driver, Mark Sanger, Ironside sets out to solve his first case as a civilian by finding the people responsible for the attempt on his life.
The Chapman Report
Screenplay
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
¡Quiero vivir!
Screenplay
Basada en hechos reales. Barbara Graham es una mujer de pésima reputación que frecuenta bares inmundos y que ha sido condenada por crímenes mezquinos. Dos conocidos suyos cometen un asesinato y, cuando los atrapan, empiezan a sospechar que Bárbara los ha delatado. Para vengarse, deciden inculparla y es condenada a muerte. La mañana del 3 de junio de 1955 entra en la cámara de gas de la penitenciaria de San Quintín (California). Duro alegato contra la pena de muerte.
Le imprese di una spada leggendaria
Writer
Adaptation of The Three Musketeers
House of Numbers
Writer
Story of twin brothers - one trying to help another escape from prison.
The Last Tycoon
Writer
Based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title, a movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
La furia de los justos
Writer
Un chico mexicano es acusado de violación y asesinato. De su defensa se ocupa un abogado joven e inexperto que tendrá que demostrar la inocencia del muchacho frente a una agitada comunidad que lo considera culpable de antemano
La furia de los justos
Novel
Un chico mexicano es acusado de violación y asesinato. De su defensa se ocupa un abogado joven e inexperto que tendrá que demostrar la inocencia del muchacho frente a una agitada comunidad que lo considera culpable de antemano
The Big Moment
Writer
Three individual stories that give an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different people: one is a young thief from Casablanca, another is an immigrant doctor brought to the United States and the third is a girl who survived the Holocaust. All three are given a chance to live with dignity and self-respect.
Fast Company
Adaptation
The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father's stable, she inherited. Rick Grayton is a horse racing trainer who lucked into training a champ, the horse 'Gay Fleet'. Only nobody knows 'Gay Fleet' is any good yet. Rick has been intentionally losing so that he can buy the horse with a low-ball offer to the owner Carol. However Mercedes Bellway, a rival barn and in love with Rick, figures out his plan and tells Carol.
The Man Who Had Influence
Story
Business mogul's son David Grant uses his father's power to extricate himself from problems - until implication in a woman's death tests David's willingness to avoid responsibility.