Waldo Salt

Waldo Salt

出生 : 1914-10-18, Chicago, Illinois, USA

死亡 : 1987-03-07

略歴

Waldo Miller Salt (October 18, 1914 – March 7, 1987) was an American screenwriter. He received two Academy Awards for Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Coming Home (1978).

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Waldo Salt

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Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Self (archive footage)
Documentary is about the life and work of American screenwriter Waldo Salt who won two Academy Awards and was put on the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s. The story is told through interviews with collaborators and friends such as Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jon Voight, John Schlesinger and with clips from Salt's films, chiefly Midnight Cowboy.
眠れぬ夜のために
Male Derelict
偶然助けた美女が国際密輸組織と関係があったゆえ、トラブルに巻き込まれる不眠症の男を描く。ジェフ・ゴールドブラムの名演と有名映画監督らのカメオ出演も見もの。
Coming Home
Screenplay
The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.
The Day of the Locust
Screenplay
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
セルピコ
Screenplay
熱い情熱をたぎらせ仕事に燃える新人刑事セルピコ。だが警察内部では汚職が横行し、やがて彼は孤立していく……。『ゴッド・ファーザー』で注目されたアル・パチーノの若かりしころの名演が見られる。
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Screenplay
A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.
真夜中のカーボーイ
Joe Pyne on TV Show (uncredited)
テキサスの片田舎からニューヨークへやって来たカウボーイ姿の青年ジョーは、自身の肉体と美貌を武器に金持ち女性の相手をして富と名声を得ようと考えていた。しかし最初の客に騙され、逆に金を巻き上げられてしまう。そんな彼の前に、足の不自由な詐欺師ラッツォが現れる。2人はともに底辺から這い上がろうともがくうちに奇妙な友情で結ばれていくが、ラッツォは深刻な病に侵されていた。
真夜中のカーボーイ
Screenplay
テキサスの片田舎からニューヨークへやって来たカウボーイ姿の青年ジョーは、自身の肉体と美貌を武器に金持ち女性の相手をして富と名声を得ようと考えていた。しかし最初の客に騙され、逆に金を巻き上げられてしまう。そんな彼の前に、足の不自由な詐欺師ラッツォが現れる。2人はともに底辺から這い上がろうともがくうちに奇妙な友情で結ばれていくが、ラッツォは深刻な病に侵されていた。
Flight from Ashiya
Writer
Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors from a murderous storm-tossed sea. As they head for their location, the film flashes back to chronicle the pasts of each pilot to make clear their mixed feelings about their upcoming assignment.
Taras Bulba
Screenplay
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.
Blast of Silence
Writer
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past, and a fat gun dealer with pet rats, each gets in his way.
M
Dialogue
Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.
The Flame and the Arrow
Writer
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
Rachel and the Stranger
Screenplay
A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Writer
Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.
Tonight We Raid Calais
Screenplay
A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must enlist the aid of French farmers to complete his mission.
The Wild Man of Borneo
Screenplay
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.
フィラデルフィア物語
Screenplay
フィラデルフィアの上流社会の令嬢トレイシーはジョージとの結婚を目前に控えていた。それを知って、二年前に彼女の我がままとプライドの高さに耐えかねて出ていったデクスターが、雑誌記者のコナーとインブリを連れてやって来る。実は邸の主人は浮気相手のところへ行っていて式にも呼ばれていない有様で、体面を重んじる一家は、記者の手前、何とか取り繕う。トレイシーに未練のあるデクスターは静かなる結婚妨害を試みるが……。
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Dialogue
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
The Shopworn Angel
Screenplay
During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car nearly runs him over.
The Bride Wore Red
Adaptation
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.