Howard Fast

Howard Fast

Nascimento : 1914-11-11, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 2003-03-12

História

Fast was born in New York City. His mother, Ida (née Miller), was a British Jewish immigrant, and his father, Barney Fast, was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant who shortened his name from Fastovsky upon arrival in America. When his mother died in 1923 and his father became unemployed, Howard's youngest brother, Julius, went to live with relatives, while he and his older brother, Jerome, sold newspapers. Howard credited his early voracious reading to a part-time job in the New York Public Library.

Perfil

Howard Fast

Filmes

Spartacus
Novel
Em uma Roma repleta de intrigas políticas, guerras civis entre aristocratas e provincianos, e lutas de arena, a expansão do Império é vital. Para isso, vilas são destruídas e mulheres e crianças e homens aprisionados e transformados em escravos. Mas para Spartacus, que aprendeu a lutar guerreando contra os romanos, escapar da escravidão e libertar seu povo vale muito mais que a honra de morrer como um gladiador.
The Crossing
Screenplay
A made-for-TV dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the British forces at Trenton.
The Crossing
Novel
A made-for-TV dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the British forces at Trenton.
April Morning
Novel
A teenager grows up during the onset of the American revolution.
Freedom Road
Novel
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
Pânico em Munique
Writer
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
What's a Nice Girl Like You...?
Teleplay
A Bronx working girl is drawn into an elaborate extortion plot after being kidnapped by a gang of sophisticated con men who force her, because of her remarkable resemblance, to impersonate a wealthy socialite. Based on E.V. Cunningham's (Howard Fast's) novel, "Shirley."
What's a Nice Girl Like You...?
Novel
A Bronx working girl is drawn into an elaborate extortion plot after being kidnapped by a gang of sophisticated con men who force her, because of her remarkable resemblance, to impersonate a wealthy socialite. Based on E.V. Cunningham's (Howard Fast's) novel, "Shirley."
The Face of Fear
Writer
A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind, and with the help of the local police, tries to find the killer before he fulfills his part of the bargain.
A Noite Convida ao Crime
Novel
After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.
Kaleidoscope
Writer
An unmade movie by Alfred Hitchcock. Young bodybuilder, a serial killer, lures women to their deaths near water. The New York police uses an undercover policewoman to try and trap him.
Penelope
Novel
When James met Penelope at a club, it took all of three weeks before they were married. But after the marriage, other women became attracted to James and he kept getting promoted, which took him away from Penelope. So Penelope puts on a disguise and robs her husband's bank. Her psychiatrist, Greg, believes that this condition is caused by James being over worked and under romantic with Penelope. She also tells Greg that she robs the business associates of James. But Greg is in love with Penelope - in fact everyone likes her. The problem is when she confesses to her crimes, no one believes her.
Miragem
Novel
Após um blecaute no arranha-céus em que se encontrava, David Stillwell se esquece sobre quem ele é e o que faz na vida. Entretanto, ele se vê de alguma forma envolvido na morte de um filantropo no mesmo prédio. A partir de então, com a ajuda de um detetive particular, David procura descobrir o que aconteceu naquele dia.
Sylvia
Screenplay
Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.
Crepúsculo de Uma Raça
Novel
Quando a agência do governo encarregada dos índios não entrega os escassos suprimentos, devidos por tratado, para a orgulhosa tribo Cheyenne em sua estéril reserva no deserto, os índios famintos entendem que foram mais abusados do que vale a pena tolerar. Mais de 300 cheyennes abandonam a reserva destinada a eles, partindo em uma travessia de 2.400 km rumo à sua ancestral área de caça. Isso é encarado pelo governo como um ato de rebelião, que então tenta impedir a jornada. O Capitão de Cavalaria Thomas Archer é encarregado de sua captura, mas durante a busca cresce seu respeito pela sua nobre coragem, e decide ajudá-los.
As Duas Faces da Lei
Novel
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
Spartacus
Novel
Spartacus, um homem que nasceu escravo, labuta para o Império Romano enquanto sonha com o fim da escravidão. Ele foi condenado à morte por morder um guarda em uma mina na Líbia. Mas seu destino foi mudado por um lanista (negociante e treinador de gladiadores), que o comprou para ser treinado nas artes de combate e se tornar um gladiador. Até que um dia, dois poderosos patrícios chegam de Roma, um com a esposa e o outro com a noiva. As mulheres pedem para serem entretidas com dois combates até à morte e Spartacus, é escolhido para enfrentar um gladiador negro, que vence a luta mas se recusa a matar seu opositor, atirando seu tridente contra a tribuna onde estavam os romanos. Este nobre gesto custa a vida do gladiador negro e enfurece Spartacus, de tal maneira que ele acaba liderando uma revolta de escravos, que atinge metade da Itália.
Raquel, A Escrava Branca
Story
A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.