James M. Cain
出生 : 1892-07-01, Annapolis, Maryland, USA
死亡 : 1977-10-27
略歴
James Mallahan Cain (1892–1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is considered one of the founders of the hardboiled crime genre.
Novel
Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Joseph and Hanna. Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Hanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.
Novel
Zaiton seduces a drifter named Amran into murdering her elderly husband, Ibrahim, to get his money and land.
Novel
György Fehèr’s aim was to “make a film which is similar to the last salvaged print of a long lost film”. The passions he investigates are centred on primeval fears and cravings and a sense of inescapable doom. Shot in powerful black and white with excellent central performances.
Novel
A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.
Novel
Jess Tyler lives a quiet life next to an abandoned mining factory by himself in the desert. His life is turned upside down when a sexually provocative young woman comes to visit him and tells him she's his daughter. Jess finds it hard to adapt to his newly found parenting role, as a mutual attraction grows between them.
Novel
1930年、ロサンジェルスのハイウェイ沿いにあるガソリンスタンドの安食堂。ここにひとりの流れ者がやって来る。食堂の女房の体に魅せられた男は、そこで働くことにした。やがて二人は情事を重ねるが食堂の主人はまったく気づかない。そして二人はついに、恐ろしい計画を実行に移すのだが…。
Novel
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.
Screenplay
A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor.
Story
A young woman touring Germany is caught between a married symphony conductor and a doctor from back home.
Novel
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
Novel
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
Story
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.
Additional Writing
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
Novel
ジェームズ・M・ケインのハードボイルド小説を原作に、テイ・ガーネット監督が映画化。ラナ・ターナーが魅惑的な悪女を演じる、1940年代フィルム・ノワールの傑作。
流れ者のフランクは、旅の途中、食堂を経営するニックに雇われることになる。ニックよりはるかに若く美しい妻コーラに心ひかれるフランクだったが、やがて2人は恋に落ち、ニックの殺害を計画する…。
Novel
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Screenplay
In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered. The wicked baron blames the gypsies and imprisons them all in his castle. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger on a white horse has hidden the murder arrow and won the heart of gypsy belle Carla, to the discomfiture of her erstwhile fiancée Tonio. Baron Tovar is also fascinated by Carla...especially when he notices her heraldic pendant.
Novel
完璧な計画の元に保険金殺人を実行した男女。だが思わぬ落とし穴が彼らを待ち受けていた……。ビリー・ワイルダー監督の初期の作品で、人間が陥りやすい暗部をじっくりと描いている。
Novel
イタリア、ポー河沿いのレストランを夫と営むジョヴァンナ(クララ・カラマイ)は、ある日店に現れた男ジーノ(マッシモ・ジロッティ)に魅せられる。まもなく関係を結んでしまったふたりは、やがて夫を殺すべく計画を実行に移すが…。
Writer
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
Story
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Story
Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philip Chagal accidentally meets Helen Lawrence in a restaurant where she is a waitress. Unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness, he is attracted to her and they make a date to go sailing, arriving at Philip's country home just as a storm is breaking. Helen learns who he is for the first time, a celebrated-and-famous concert pianist and, falling in love with him, decides to leave before matters go further. A hurricane hits and their car is crippled by a falling tree. Rising water forces then to seek shelter in the choir loft of a church, where they spend the night.
Novel
Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's offer to work for him. Of course, it is not for Nick's sake that the young man becomes his attendant, but for the love of Cora under whose spell he has fallen at once. It does not take long before Cora, who despises her husband, asks her lover to help her get rid of him. Frank is reluctant at first but ...
Novel
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
Screenplay
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Writer
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage.
Dialogue
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe meets the beautiful Gaby, which arouses the jealousy of Ines.
Story
"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But she is a one-man woman, married to the wrong man, and refuses to cheat on her cheating husband even though her happiness depends on doing so.