Albert Maltz Filmography

Born:: Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Occupation:: Screenwriter
Biography:: Distinguished author, short story writer, playwright, and screenwriter Albert Maltz was among the notorious "Hollywood Ten," those artists who were first blackballed by the House Un-American Activities Committee for refusing to testify about communist affiliations. Following education at Columbia...Read More

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Hollywood on Trial

Actors: John Huston, Edward Dmytryk, Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner, Jr., Lester Cole, Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Joseph McCarthy

Synopsis: Combining familiar newsreel footage with freshly shot material, David Helpern's Hollywood on Trial is a documentary concerning the "communist witch-hunt" era. In the years following World War II, several ambitious Washington politicos were anxious to dissipate the last traces of Roosevelt's New Read More

1976
Hangup

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Set amidst the tumult and grit of the inner city, this blaxploitation outing centers on the devious exploits of drug-dealing gangsters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Scalawag

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Mark Lester

Synopsis: In this exciting adventure, based on a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson and shot in Yugoslavia, a one-legged pirate must rely on the memory of a boozy, uncooperative parrot if he is to find the location of a tremendous treasure. He is later assisted by two plucky youths who help him battle it out Read More

1973
Two Mules for Sister Sara

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Manolo Fábregas, Alberto Morin, Armando Silvestre

Synopsis: Director Budd Boetticher wrote the story upon which this comic Western was based. Clint Eastwood stars as Hogan, a tough cowboy who rescues a woman, Sara (Shirley Maclaine) as she's about to be attacked by a trio of rapists. Surprised to learn that his new traveling companion is a nun, Hogan Read More

1970
The Beguiled

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darlene Carr

Synopsis: The Beguiled is a Freudian mood piece from the team of actor Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel. Eastwood plays Corp. John McBurney, a wounded Union soldier during the Civil War, who takes refuge in a prim-and-proper Southern girl's school run by Martha Farnsworth (Geraldine Page). Read More

1970
The Last Challenge

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Glenn Ford, Angie Dickinson, Chad Everett, Gary Merrill, Jack Elam

Synopsis: In this western, a town sheriff contends with his reputation as the "fastest gun in the West." When a young gunslinger calls him out for a showdown, the sheriff is struck by the fellows resemblance to himself when he was young. He therefore, attempts to talk him out of his foolish career choice Read More

1967
The Robe

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Jay Robinson

Synopsis: Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in its own right. Based on the best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, the film stars Richard Burton as the wastrelly Roman tribune who is assigned by a weary Pontius Pilate (Richard Boone Read More

1953
Broken Arrow

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael, Will Geer

Synopsis: Indian scout Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns (through an uncomfortably close encounter) that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities. Befriending the sagacious Read More

1950
Naked City

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Ted de Corsia

Synopsis: Young model Jean Dexter is knocked unconscious and drowned in her own bathtub in her Manhattan apartment, and a lot of jewelry that she supposedly owned is missing. The Naked City is actually about six days in the life of New York City that coincide with the murder and the subsequent investigation Read More

1948
Cloak and Dagger

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda, Vladimir Sokoloff, J. Edward Bromberg, Marjorie Hoshelle

Synopsis: Inspired by actual events, Cloak and Dagger was first major "atomic power" melodrama of the postwar era. Gary Cooper stars as bookish physics professor Alvah Jesper, a character obviously based on A-bomb codeveloper J. Robert Oppenheimer. Pressed into service by the OSS in the last months of WW2 Read More

1946
Pride of the Marines

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Ann Doran, John Ridgely, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: John Garfield stars as Al Schmid, a true-life marine who served in World War II. Schmid becomes a hero at Guadalcanal, defending a machine gun post and killing 200 Japanese before he is permanently blinded by a grenade. Despite being awarded the Navy Cross, Schmid returns home embittered by his Read More

1945
The House I Live In

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Frank Sinatra

1945
The Man in Half-Moon Street

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Nils Asther, Helen Walker, Reinhold Schünzel, Paul Cavanagh, Edmund Breon

Synopsis: A scientist discovers that he can live forever by receiving gland transplants every ten years. Unfortunately, the unwilling donors must be killed for him to survive, something that doesn't bother the scientist until he falls in love. The girl, innocent of his grisly secret, falls for him too. Read More

1944
Destination Tokyo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, Dane Clark, John Ridgely

Synopsis: Though its purely propagandastic aspects are never far from surface, Destination Tokyo must rank as one of the most intelligent and objective of wartime thrillers. Cary Grant is a tower of strength as Captain Cassidy, skipper of an American submarine bound for Tokyo harbor. Its mission: to allow a Read More

1943
Seeds of Freedom

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Henry Hull, Aline MacMahon, A. Antonov, Martin Wolfson

Synopsis: This unique wartime propaganda drama is a film within a film; one of those films is Russian-director Sergei Eisenstein's silent masterpiece Potemkin. The other film provides a loose framework for the other and represents a Russian freedom fighter's attempts to inspire his dispirited, flagging Read More

1943
Moscow Strikes Back

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The Soviet war documentary Moscow Strikes Back was released in the U.S. in a specially-prepared English language version. Utilizing the stock-footage facilities of Moscow's Central Newsreel Service, the film places the recent Nazi invasion of the USSR within historical context, as proof of the Read More

1942
This Gun for Hire

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall

Synopsis: Though billed fourth in This Gun For Hire, Alan Ladd was catapulted to stardom in the role of Phillip Raven, a ruthless professional killer with a long-suppressed streak of decency. After successfully pulling off his latest murder, Raven reports to his boss, effeminate fifth columnist Willard Read More

1942
Afraid to Talk

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Eric Linden, Sidney Fox, Tully Marshall, Louis Calhern

Synopsis: Eric Linden is a bellhop who has the extreme misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time in gangster era of Chicago. After witnessing an assassination staged by gangsters, Linden becomes a pawn, being pushed back and forth by corrupt authorities and the mob. Tension mounts as the Read More

1932