Wendell Mayes

出生 : 1918-07-22,

死亡 : 1992-03-28

参加作品

デス・ウィッシュ
Screenplay
警察の手に負えない犯罪都市となったシカゴで救急患者を診る外科医ポール・カージー。ある日、何者かが家族を襲撃。妻は殺され、娘は昏睡状態になってしまう。失意の中、日々を過ごす中で善良な市民が死に、悪人の命を救わねばならないこともある医者という立場にも疑問を感じ始める。そして、犯罪が溢れかえり一向に進まない警察の捜査。この状況に怒りの頂点に達したポールは自ら銃を手に、犯人抹殺のため危険な街へと繰り出し始める。悪人には、問答無用。復讐をきっかけに街の悪を一掃する“死神”と呼ばれる救世主へと変貌を遂げていく─。外科医から処刑人へと変ぼうをとげる男のハード・リベンジ・アクションが今、幕を開ける!!
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Self
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Monsignor
Screenplay
The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.
Love and Bullets
Writer
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.
Love and Bullets
Story
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.
Go Tell the Spartans
Writer
Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel "Incident at Muc Wa." It tells the story about U.S. Army military advisers during the early part of the Vietnam War. Led my Major Asa Barker, these advisers and their South Vietnamese counterparts defend the village of Muc Wa against multiple attacks by Viet-Cong guerrillas.
Bank Shot
Writer
A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in a safer location.
狼よさらば
Screenplay
ポールは美しい妻子とともにNYで暮らす技師。ある日家族がチンピラに襲われ、妻は死亡、娘はショックで廃人になってしまう。彼は復讐のために私設刑事として街の犯罪者たちを殺し始める……。チャールズ・ブロンソンの人気を決定づけたシリーズの第1弾。
ポセイドン・アドベンチャー
Screenplay
NYからギリシャのアテネに向かっていた豪華客船ポセイドン号が、海底地震による大津波に飲まれて転覆。その惨状とともに生き残った船客の脱出劇を描いた、ロナルド・ニーム監督による傑作パニック巨編。
The Revengers
Screenplay
The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He assembles a team of mean, lawless convicts to act as his posse as he pursues the gang responsible for the deaths of his loved ones.
レッド・ムーン
Adaptation
アリゾナ、1881年。10年間アパッチに拐われていた白人女性とその息子を救出した案内人は自分の家に親子を連れ帰るが、彼らの跡を子供の父親である凶暴なインディアン戦士が追いかけて来た。姿を見せずに襲撃を繰り返すインディアンの恐怖をホラー映画ばりに描き出した異色の西部劇。
Hotel
Producer
This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.
Hotel
Adaptation
This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.
脱走特急
Screenplay
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
In Harm's Way
Screenplay
A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Advise & Consent
Screenplay
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
アラスカ魂
Screenplay
舞台はゴールド・ラッシュににぎわう1900年のアラスカ。金鉱を掘りあてたサムは、相棒の婚約者を迎えるためにシアトルへ向かうが……。西部劇の王者ジョン・ウェインがコメディ・タッチの西部劇に挑戦したことでも話題に。
或る殺人
Screenplay
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.
縛り首の木
Screenplay
Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides to settle down, and he takes over as town doctor. He meets Elizabeth, who is suffering from shock, and the two soon fall in love. But when Elizabeth is attacked, Frail's attempt to help her lands them both in trouble.
The Hunters
Screenplay
With its electrifying flight sequences and high-powered cast, The Hunters is a mesmerizing film based on the best-selling novel by veteran fighter pilot James Salter. Set during the height of the Korean War, the story centers on Major Cleve Saville (Robert Mitchum), a master of the newly operational F-86 Sabre fighter jets. But adept as he is at flying, Saville¹s personal life takes a nosedive when he falls in love with his wingman¹s (Lee Philips) beautiful wife (May Britt). To make matters worse, Saville must cope with a loud-mouthed rookie (Robert Wagner) in a daring rescue mission that threatens all their lives in this well-crafted war drama.
From Hell to Texas
Screenplay
The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Tod runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengeful brothers. Tod shelters on the ranch of Amos Bradley and he falls in love with his daughter Juanita. However, Tod is concerned that he'll eventually have to leave when his pursuers catch up with him.
眼下の敵
Screenplay
南大西洋を航海中の米軍の駆逐艦ヘインズは自艦に接近してきた独軍の潜水艦を捕捉し、やがて両者の間で一騎打ちが火蓋を切る。駆逐艦の艦長マレルはかつて妻を戦争で失い、対する独軍潜水艦の艦長フォン・ストルベルグも、愛児たちを祖国のために失った男。2人ともに戦争に対して実は批判的である立場ながら、見えない相手を好敵手と見なし、全力で戦いに臨む。やがて両者の間には互いに対する奇妙な尊敬の念が芽生えていく。
The Way to the Gold
Screenplay
Following his release from prison, an ex-con heads straight for a cache of gold buried somewhere in a small village.
翼よ!あれが巴里の灯だ
Screenplay
大西洋横断飛行に挑戦する資金を集め、1927年、ニューヨークの飛行場を単葉機「セントルイス魂号」で飛び立った郵便飛行士チャールズ・A・リンドバーグ。睡魔や悪天候など、さまざまな危機を切り抜け、パリまでの5810キロ、33時間30分の無着陸単独飛行という史上初の偉業を成し遂げた回想録を、名匠ビリー・ワイルダー監督が映画化。ジェームズ・スチュワートがリンドバーグを演じ、綿密な演出で描いた感動のドラマ。