Evan Hunter
Nascimento : 1926-10-15, New York City, New York, USA
Morte : 2005-07-06
História
Evan Hunter (né Salvatore Albert Lombino; known as Ed McBain until 1952) was an American author and screenwriter. He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, and Richard Marsten, amongst others. He is best known for writing the screenplay for THE BIRDS (1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock.
Original Film Writer
Self
Um documentário que mostra a carreira épica e às vezes controversa do magistral diretor Alfred Hitchcock.
When Phil D'Amato takes a call from a lady physicist about her missing husband, he has no idea that her life, his life, and every other scientist working on a top-secret time travel project will soon be in dire jeopardy. As the number of dead begins to mount, D'Amato starts to realize that the suspect is not any one person or group but something much more sinister and dangerous.
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At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demanded is near the amount Gondo has raised for a critical business deal. Gondo is prepared to pay the ransom - that is, until he learns that the kidnappers have mistakenly abducted not Gondo's son, but the child of Gondo's chauffeur. Now Gondo must decide whether the other man's child is equally worth saving.
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A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to fight against a tenacious District Attorney, and evidence connected to the man's wife.
Self
This hour long documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" incorporates the usual melange of contemporary interviews with surviving participants and liberal helpings of film clips and production shots. It also presents a nice selection of script pages and memos as well. In the former category we find cast members 'Tippi' Hedren, Diane Baker, and Louise Latham, rejected screenwriters Joseph Stefano and Evan Hunter, final screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, production designer Robert Boyle, makeup artist Howard Smit, unit manager Hilton Green, Hitchcock historian Robin Wood, composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven C. Smith, and Hitchcock fan/filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. An entertaining account of the film's production, the participants offer loads of valuable information and anecdotes. Highly enjoyable for Hitchcock fans and the film's growing number of admirers.
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Once she'd been a dancer. Now she lies on a sidewalk, her blood seeping into the snow. The detectives of the 87th precinct are learning about ice: in a mulitimillion dollar showbiz scam, in the glittering diamonds that spill out of a dead man's vest, in the veins of a small time pusher. As the detectives scramble for evidence, as the city shivers, a killer is one step ahead, and the heat is still on.
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In New York two detectives of the 87th precinct are initially baffled by the brutal, ritualistic slayings of several young women. Through good detective work and clues left at the crime scenes by the psychopathic killer, they are able to deduce who the killer's next victim will be. A tense chase ensues as they try to prevent him from continuing his bloody rampage
Writer
Walks Far Woman is a squaw of the Blackfoot tribe. She takes revenge on two men who killed her husband and then she is ostracized by her tribe. She then is adopted by the Sioux, the tribe of her mother, and there she tries to start a new life.
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A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.
Writer
A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.
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A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
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Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
Screenplay
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
Novel
An Englishwoman turns nanny and kidnaps the son of an Italian gangster who took over her dancing school.
Writer
Teleplay based on the story of the same name by Evan Hunter. The traveling salesman Jerr Talbot joins the publishing house "The Bible For Home". Publisher Matthews comes up with dishonest tricks to sell the Bible for maximum profit.
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A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
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During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Novel
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
Screenplay
Marnie é uma mulher perturbada psicologicamente que vai trabalhar para Mark Rutland e tenta roubá-lo. Só que Mark acaba casando com ela e tenta ajudá-la a curar sua doença, confrontando o seu passado.
Novel
The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine...
Screenplay
Melanie Daniels, uma jovem da cidade de São Francisco, vai até uma pequena cidade isolada da Califórnia, chamada Bodega Bay, atrás de um potencial namorado: Mitch Brenner. Mas na cidade começa de repente a acontecer fatos estranhos: pássaros de todas as espécies passam a atacar a população, em número cada vez maior e com mais violência, deixando todos aterrorizados.
Novel
Um executivo de uma empresa de calçados torna-se vítima de extorsão quando o filho de seu motorista é sequestrado e pedem resgate.
O executivo Gondo (Toshirô Mifune) hipoteca tudo o que tem na tentativa de assumir a Companhia Nacional de Sapatos, para manter a empresa fora das mãos dos outros executivos incompetentes e gananciosos. Contudo, o mesmo dinheiro que ele arrecada pode pagar o resgate que possivelmente irá salvara vida de uma criança, levando o executivo a tomar decisões extremas e elaborar procedimentos policiais. A resolução desse dilema - a perda certa da empresa vs a perda provável da criança - cria um drama distinto, e um elaborado procedimento de polícia cria um segundo. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
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Um menino cego porto-riquenho é assassinado por uma gang de adolescentes na Itália. Do grupo, três jovens são pegos e vão à júri, onde são acusados intensamente pelo promotor. O advogado resolve então investigar mais profundamente o caso e acaba descobrindo que a história não era como ele pensava. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
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Larry Coe (Kirk Douglas) é um arquiteto bem sucedido que deixa de amar Eve Coe (Barbara Rush), sua esposa. Um dia cele onhece Maggie Gault (Kim Novak), sua vizinha, que tem um marido que perdeu o interesse sexual por ela. Neste contexto eles começam a ter um affair, mas logo estão se amando intensamente.
Screenplay
Larry Coe (Kirk Douglas) é um arquiteto bem sucedido que deixa de amar Eve Coe (Barbara Rush), sua esposa. Um dia cele onhece Maggie Gault (Kim Novak), sua vizinha, que tem um marido que perdeu o interesse sexual por ela. Neste contexto eles começam a ter um affair, mas logo estão se amando intensamente.
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A detective investigating the murder of a heroin addict discovers that there is a connection between the junkie and his fiance, who is his boss' daughter.
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A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.
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Members of the 87th Precinct search for a cop killer who has already murdered two of their own.
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Um professor consegue emprego em uma escola de um bairro pobre em Nova York. Recebido com hostilidade, ele terá que enfrentar uma rotina dominada por gangues, delinqüentes, estupros e muita violência.