Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard

出生 : 1925-10-11, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

死亡 : 2013-08-20

略歴

Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925 – August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.

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Elmore Leonard:
Self (archive footage)
Elmore Leonard, author of more than 40 novels, is renowned in the literary community. From his westerns and early novels of crime based in Detroit and South Florida, right through his complex and virtually plotless later work, Elmore Leonard dissected an America whose founding sins have continued to haunt it all the days. Leonard’s depiction of America is as real as Twain’s Hannibal, Faulkner’s Mississippi and Steinbeck’s Monterey. The new documentary ELMORE LEONARD: “But don’t try to write” explores the prolific author’s legacy and his influence on generations of writers. The documentary features exclusive images and previously unseen home movie footage, family photographs, and in-depth interviews with both literary experts and those who knew him well, including colleagues, family, and childhood friends.
Life of Crime
Executive Producer
Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return.
Life of Crime
Novel
Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return.
フリーキー・ディーキー
Novel
1974年のデトロイト。爆弾処理班のクリスは性犯罪課へ異動となり、そこで美女グレタから地元の大金持ウディに強姦された事件の捜査依頼を受ける。捜査に気乗りしないクリスだったが、ウディの邸宅で爆破事件が起こり、元爆弾処理班の血が騒ぎ始める。グレタへの下心もあって捜査に本腰を入れるクリスだが、ウディや彼の手下は捜査に非協力的だった。そんな中、ウディの大金を狙う男女が現れ、捜査は混沌を極めてゆく。
Killshot
Executive Producer
Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer.
Killshot
Novel
Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer.
The Tonto Woman
Story
A white woman is kidnapped from her home by Apache Indians. Traded to the Mojave Indians, she lives as a squaw for 11 years until she is found by her husband. Unfit for society he keeps her in a shack in the desert. Her solitary existence is transformed with the arrival of a Mexican. He befriends her, reignites her self-worth and increases her confidence. He re-introduces her to her husband and leaves. As he is leaving town he is ambushed by her husbands men and there is a gun-battle. Who lives and who dies?
3時10分、決断のとき
Story
牧場主ダンは、家族を養うため借金を抱え、苦しい生活を送っていた。ある日彼は荒野へ出ると、ウェイド率いる強盗団が駅馬車を襲った現場に遭遇。生存者を救出し町へ向かうと、ちょうどそのウェイドが保安官に逮捕されるところだった。3日後の午後3時10分発ユマ行きの列車でウェイドを刑務所に送ることになり、その警護役には報酬が支払われるとのことで、ダンは志願する。だが、ウェイドには多くの手下がいた。 強盗団のリーダーにラッセル・クロウ、彼を護送する平凡な市民にクリスチャン・ベイルという適役で、名作西部劇『決断の3時10分』をリメイク。相容れない2人が駆け引きを通じて絆を結ぶ様を、熱く骨太に描く。
Be Cool/ビー・クール
Executive Producer
Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way.
Be Cool/ビー・クール
Novel
Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way.
The Big Bounce
Novel
A small-time con artist and a Hawaiian real estate developer's mischievous, enterprising mistress team up for a potential $200,000 score.
アウト・オブ・サイト
Novel
武器を使わず200以上もの銀行を襲った全米屈指の銀行強盗のジャック・フォーリー。しかし、ある日刑務所から脱獄した彼は、今度はセクシーで切れ者の女性の心を盗むのだが……。
ジャッキー・ブラウン
Executive Producer
70年代テイストを前面に押し出した、クセ者スター勢揃いの、クエンティン・タランティークのクライム・サスペンス。 黒人スチュワーデスのジャッキー・ブラウンは、密売人の売上金をメキシコからアメリカに運ぶ副業を持っていた。だが、ひょんなことから逮捕され、捜査官レイに密売人オデールの逮捕に協力するよう強要される。オデールが証拠隠滅のために自分を消そうとしていることを知ったジャッキーは、関係者をあざむき、お互いに潰し合わせようとする。
ジャッキー・ブラウン
Novel
70年代テイストを前面に押し出した、クセ者スター勢揃いの、クエンティン・タランティークのクライム・サスペンス。 黒人スチュワーデスのジャッキー・ブラウンは、密売人の売上金をメキシコからアメリカに運ぶ副業を持っていた。だが、ひょんなことから逮捕され、捜査官レイに密売人オデールの逮捕に協力するよう強要される。オデールが証拠隠滅のために自分を消そうとしていることを知ったジャッキーは、関係者をあざむき、お互いに潰し合わせようとする。
Gold Coast
Novel
Karen stands to inherit millions from her dead husband on one condition: she must stay away from other men. Two of the deceased's former associates seek his money by getting closer to Karen, not knowing that doing so places the fortune out of reach.
Pronto
Novel
Harry Arno is a Miami Beach bookie who finds himself in trouble with his mob bosses for reasons he can't quite figure out. When an assailant attempts to kill him, he decides that it's time to retire, so he relocates to Greece.
Touch
Novel
Down-and-out former preacher Bill Hill witnesses stranger Juvenal save a woman from her abusive husband by defusing the latter's anger — and ending his wife's blindness. Determined to profit from Juvenal's mystical powers, Bill asks an old friend, Lynn Faulkner, to sneak into the Alcoholics Anonymous facility where Juvenal works as a counselor, but she finds herself falling for the healer.
Last Stand at Saber River
Novel
As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier. Cable is an embittered Confederate soldier who returns from the war to reclaim his Arizona homestead from rebel pioneers who sympathize with the Union war effort.
ゲット・ショーティ
Novel
マイアミで取立屋を行っているチリ・パーマーは無類の映画好き。ボスが急死したため、彼らの組織は悪党レイの傘下に入ることになったが、チリを嫌うレイは彼に取り立ての難しい仕事をまわす。飛行機事故で死んだ事になっているクリーニング屋レオの足どりを追ってベガスに赴いたチリは、レオの情報と引き換えにハリウッドのB級映画プロデューサー、ハリーからの借金回収を頼まれる。だが愛人カレンの家に押し入ったチリとハリーは意気投合し、いっしょに映画を作る話で盛り上がる。だがハリーは、ヤバイ商売で有名な会社から渡されていた映画資金を使い込んでいたのだ……。
Split Images
Novel
A journalist knows more about a grizzly murder than is good for her. All her evidence points toward a mysterious millionaire but no one will believe her.
Cat Chaser
Screenplay
A Miami hotel owner finds danger when be becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.
Cat Chaser
Novel
A Miami hotel owner finds danger when be becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.
Border Shootout
Novel
Young rancher Kirby Frye is appointed deputy in a small town tyrannized by ruthless Phil Sundeen, the son of one of the founders of the town.
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
Creator
Duell McCall visits his old girlfriend, Nora, and learns that she gave birth to his child. He wants to stay but he is still a wanted man. So, Sheriff Campbell suggests that if he brings in this notorious criminal, who has been plaguing the territory, he might be able to get a pardon.
Glitz
Novel
Vincent Marra is a Miami cop on medical leave in Puerto Rico, where he's being stalked by a sex offender he testified against.
Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge
Creator
Duell McCall is an outlaw on the run for a crime he didn't commit. Captured by the law and coerced into helping rescue the daughter of the evil local land baron, he finds himself drawn into an ever-deepening web of lies that threatens to cost him his life.
The Return of Desperado
Creator
Duell McCall is in New Mexico running afoul of local land baron. McCall pauses long enough in his escape flight to come to the aid of black homesteader who is being victimized by the diabolical Foxworth.
The Rosary Murders
Screenplay
A killer of Detroit clergy confesses to a priest, who turns sleuth because he cannot tell the police.
Desperado
Writer
Duell McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. Framed for the murder of Sheriff John Whaley, McCall is forced to wander the wild frontier in search of the one man who can clear him.
52 Pick-Up
Screenplay
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
52 Pick-Up
Novel
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
Stick
Screenplay
After getting out of jail, car thief Ernest "Stick" Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend Rainy during a drug deal. To avoid getting killed by the same people, who work for mobster Chucky, Stick gets a job as a chauffeur for millionaire Barry Braham and lies low. As he gets used to his new routine, Stick woos Barry's financial consultant, Kyle McClaren, but must fight back when Chucky's men come after him.
Stick
Novel
After getting out of jail, car thief Ernest "Stick" Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend Rainy during a drug deal. To avoid getting killed by the same people, who work for mobster Chucky, Stick gets a job as a chauffeur for millionaire Barry Braham and lies low. As he gets used to his new routine, Stick woos Barry's financial consultant, Kyle McClaren, but must fight back when Chucky's men come after him.
The Ambassador
Novel
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane
Writer
Former Marshal Will Kane and his Amish bride, Amy, return to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and find the town in the grip of a bounty-hunting marshal and his two trigger-happy deputies.
マジェスティック
Writer
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
シノーラ
Writer
西部の小さな町シノーラ。そこへ流れ着いたジョー・キッドは、大地主ハーランから、逃げ出したメキシコ人を捕らえるために雇われる。しかし、迫害される弱者を見たとき、ジョー・キッドは悪の根源であるハーランと対決する……。「荒野の七人」や「OK牧場の決斗」のJ・スタージェス監督が、イーストウッドと組んだアクション西部劇。
追撃のバラード
Novel
Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon smuggler Frank Tanner is greedy and impulsive. When Tanner provokes a shooting that causes the death of an innocent man and Valdez asks him to financially compensate the widow, Tanner refuses to do so and severely humiliates Valdez, who will do justice and avenge his honor, no matter what it takes.
The Moonshine War
Screenplay
A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy.
The Big Bounce
Novel
A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?
太陽の中の対決
Novel
白人でありながらアパッチ族に育てられたジョン。養父から遺産としてもらった下宿屋を売り払い、駅馬車に乗って南へ向かうが……。ポール・ニューマン、フレデリック・マーチの熱演も見ものの異色ウエスタン。
3:10 to Yuma
Story
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
反撃の銃弾
Story
Having lost his horse in a bet, Pat Brennan hitches a ride with a stagecoach carrying newlyweds, Willard and Doretta Mims. At the next station the coach and its passengers fall into the hands of a trio of outlaws headed by a man named Usher. When Usher learns that Doretta is the daughter of a rich copper-mine owner, he decides to hold her for ransom. Tension builds over the next 24 hours as Usher awaits a response to his demands and as a romantic attachment grows between Brennan and Doretta.