Francis Swann

Nascimento : 1913-07-16, Maryland, USA

Morte : 1983-08-27

História

Francis Swann foi dramaturgo e romancista e escritor de cinema e televisão. Ele escreveu várias peças da Broadway, a mais notável das quais foi Out of the Frying Pan. Ele escreveu vários roteiros para a Warner Bros. e outros estúdios, incluindo o roteiro do 711 Ocean Drive.

Filmes

The Candy Man
Story
An American actress travels to Mexico to make a movie and brings her daughter with her. Upon arriving in Mexico, she is spotted by a drug dealer who also heads a kidnapping ring. He plants one of his drug-addicted "customers" with the actress as her nanny in order to be kidnap the child for ransom, but things don't work out as planned.
The Candy Man
Screenplay
An American actress travels to Mexico to make a movie and brings her daughter with her. Upon arriving in Mexico, she is spotted by a drug dealer who also heads a kidnapping ring. He plants one of his drug-addicted "customers" with the actress as her nanny in order to be kidnap the child for ransom, but things don't work out as planned.
Pão de Açúcar
Writer
A atriz americana Pamela Jones (Rhonda Fleming) estava de férias no Brasil, quando conheceu Cláudio De Santis (Rossano Brazzi), um poderoso dono de cafezal no país. Os dois se apaixonaram e resolveram se casar. Passado um tempo em que moravam juntos na fazenda de Cláudio, Pamela começou a se sentir muito solitária, uma vez que seu marido mantinha antigas tradições dentro de casa e vivia praticamente apenas para o trabalho. Nesse momento, surge a figura de Gary Wills (William Redfield), outro americano que fará de tudo para seduzir a fragilizada Pamela.
Force of Impulse
Writer
A high-school football player is in love with a beautiful blonde classmate from a very wealthy family. He doesn't have the money to take her out, so in his desperation he robs his own father's grocery store. Things go downhill from there.
One Big Affair
Adaptation
Lawyer Jimmy Donovan thinks a bicycle tour through Mexico is just the thing to keep him out of trouble until his client arrives. But when school teacher Jean Harper misses her tour bus, all of a sudden Jimmy is in for much more than he bargained for.
The Barefoot Mailman
Writer
Sylvanus Hurley is a swindler who's been swindled: he's been given a deed to a large plot of mangrove swamp in the out-of-the-way community. So he decides to con the locals, some of whom are not as honest as he....
Tarzan's Peril
Screenplay
Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.
711 Ocean Drive
Writer
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
Belle of Old Mexico
Screenplay
Wealthy Kip Artmitage III (Robert Rockwell) honors his late wartime friend's request to look after the friend's "little sister."
Belle of Old Mexico
Story
Wealthy Kip Artmitage III (Robert Rockwell) honors his late wartime friend's request to look after the friend's "little sister."
Cover Up
Additional Dialogue
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best.
The Gay Intruders
Screenplay
Psychiatrists move in with bickering stage spouses and start bickering too.
The Gay Intruders
Story
Psychiatrists move in with bickering stage spouses and start bickering too.
Jungle Patrol
Screenplay
Eight fighter pilots hold off constant Japanese attacks during the construction of an airstrip in New Guinea.
Love and Learn
Writer
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
Um Sonho e Uma Canção
Writer
The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub next door to the Cassels' home. The club's owners--Steve, a handsome ladies' man, and Jeff, his clownish sidekick--hatch a plan to keep the club open. Steve arranges to meet--and woo--Vicki and then invite her and her uncle to the club. When Vicki's snobbish aunt and the manager discover that Vicki now favors popular music over the classics, they arrange to get the club closed. But that doesn't keep Steve and Jeff down. Instead, they decide to put on a Broadway show if they can get a backer. They find their "angel" in Vicki's uncle who agrees to finance the show only if Vicki is the leading lady. But again, Vicki's aunt and manager may be the spoiler in everyone's plans.
Make Your Own Bed
Screenplay
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
Shine on Harvest Moon
Screenplay
Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.