Russell Rouse
Nacimiento : 1913-11-20, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 1987-10-02
Historia
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Russell Rouse (20 November 1913 – 2 October 1987) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer who is noted for the "offbeat creativity and originality" of his screenplays and for film noir movies and television episodes produced in the 1950s.
Rouse was the son of film pioneer Edwin Russell. His first employment in films was in the prop department at Paramount Studios, where he began writing screenplays. His play, Yokel Boy, was filmed in 1942 and became his first film writing credit.
Rouse has 18 credits as a screenwriter between 1942 and 1988.. Commencing with his third writing credit, The Town Went Wild (1944), Rouse co-wrote many stories and scripts with Clarence Greene. The partners are noted for their work on a series of six film noir movies commencing with D.O.A (directed by Rudolph Maté-1950). With the second film in the series, The Well (1951), they also took on directing and producing: Rouse as director, and Greene as producer. This collaboration continued through the noir series (The Thief (1952), Wicked Woman (1953), New York Confidential (1955), and House of Numbers (1957)) and beyond. In the late 1950s Greene and Rouse formed a production company, Greene-Rouse Productions, which created the film noir television series Tightrope that ran for one season (1959-60) as well as two films in the 1960s.
In addition to their noir work, Rouse and Greene produced two westerns (The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) and Thunder in the Sun (1959). The 1959 film, Pillow Talk, was based on their story. Their careers drew to a close shortly after the unsuccessful film, The Oscar (1966).
Rouse and Greene were nominated for the Academy Award for writing The Well (1951). They received the Academy Award for Pillow Talk (1959) (with Maurice Richlin and Stanley Shapiro). D.O.A. has been preserved in the National Film Registry; the film has been remade several times, and Rouse was credited as a writer on two: Color Me Dead (1969) and D.O.A (1988).
Rouse's son Christopher Rouse is a noted film editor.
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Story
Dexter Cornell llega moribundo a una comisaría para denunciar su propio asesinato. En su declaración recuerda todo lo sucedido a partir del suicidio de uno de los alumnos de su clase de literatura, y describe todos sus intentos para averiguar la verdad y encontrar al asesino.
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Un hombre busca desesperadamente a aquella persona que lo envenenó, mientras aún tiene chance de conseguir el antídoto. Remake del clásico de los años '50 D.O.A. (Con las Horas Contadas-1950).
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Peter Churchman dejó de robar bancos hace mucho tiempo y ahora vive como un ciudadano rico y respetado en la costa mediterránea de España. Pero entonces aparece su excompañera Ángela y lo chantajea para que la ayude a robar el Banco Nacional de Pamplona. Se rinde y desarrolla un plan brillante... ¿Será este el fin de su cómoda vida?.
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Ésta es la historia de los sueños, pero también de las maquinaciones urdidas por los buscavidas, los famosos y los farsantes que utilizan todos los medios a su alcance para conseguir el más alto premio cinematográfico.
Director
Ésta es la historia de los sueños, pero también de las maquinaciones urdidas por los buscavidas, los famosos y los farsantes que utilizan todos los medios a su alcance para conseguir el más alto premio cinematográfico.
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Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
Director
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
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Allen, compositor musical, y Jean, decoradora de interiores, se ven obligados a compartir temporalmente la misma línea de teléfono, lo que da lugar a continuas discusiones entre ellos. Los dos trabajan para el mismo jefe, Jonathan, pero no se conocen personalmente. Jonathan pretende a Jean y quiere casarse con ella. Sin embargo, en una fiesta, Allen reconoce por la voz a Jean y entabla conversación con ella ocultando su identidad.
Writer
Principios del siglo XIX. Un grupo de emigrantes vascos franceses, que abandonan el país con dirección a América huyendo de la guerra contra Napoleón, se dirigen a California con la intención de empezar allí una nueva vida. Para atravesar el peligroso territorio indio contratan a un guía, pero la relación de éste con la novia del jefe de la caravana le ocasionará al grupo graves problemas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
Principios del siglo XIX. Un grupo de emigrantes vascos franceses, que abandonan el país con dirección a América huyendo de la guerra contra Napoleón, se dirigen a California con la intención de empezar allí una nueva vida. Para atravesar el peligroso territorio indio contratan a un guía, pero la relación de éste con la novia del jefe de la caravana le ocasionará al grupo graves problemas. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Story of twin brothers - one trying to help another escape from prison.
Director
Story of twin brothers - one trying to help another escape from prison.
Screenplay
Un hombre pacífico y abstemio (Glenn Ford) es el propietario de un modesto almacén en un pequeño pueblo del Oeste. Aunque, por su carácter, casi todos lo admiran, el hecho de ir desarmado es para algunos motivo de desprecio. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Un hombre pacífico y abstemio (Glenn Ford) es el propietario de un modesto almacén en un pequeño pueblo del Oeste. Aunque, por su carácter, casi todos lo admiran, el hecho de ir desarmado es para algunos motivo de desprecio. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
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Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
Writer
A trashy blonde lures a saloon owner away from his wife.
Director
A trashy blonde lures a saloon owner away from his wife.
Writer
Un físico nuclear está siendo vigilado por el FBI ya que se sospecha que es un espía al servicio de la Unión Soviética
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Un físico nuclear está siendo vigilado por el FBI ya que se sospecha que es un espía al servicio de la Unión Soviética
Writer
In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?
Director
In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?
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Frank Bigelow irrumpe en la jefatura de policía para denunciar que ha sido víctima de un asesinato. Al principio, el Comisario Jefe cree que se trata de un loco. Sin embargo, a medida que Bigelow va relatando los hechos, se da cuenta de que la historia es totalmente coherente y, si es cierta, un asesino anda suelto.
Story
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
Screenplay
Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal to visiting royalty.
Theatre Play
A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well.
