Writer-director Richard Brooks' final film features a weak script and poor acting but high energy direction in a tale of...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1985
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Based on Charles McCarry's 1979 novel The Better Angels, Wrong is Right is set in a near future in which violence has become...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1982
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Adapted from Judith Rossner's best-selling novelization of a true story, Richard Brooks's melodrama turns one woman's search...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1977
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1975
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Director, Screenwriter
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1971
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Suburban housewives console themselves with pills and alcohol to tolerate their spouses' infidelities in The Happy Ending....
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1969
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Richard Brooks wrote and directed this stark black-and-white (with brilliantly evocative cinematography by Conrad Hall) study...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1967
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1966
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Joseph Conrad's cerebral, philosophical novel Lord Jim is streamlined and simplified by producer/director/writer...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1965
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Director, Screenwriter
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1962
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Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1960
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This dynamic and commanding adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on a troubled Southern...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1958
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Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov is given a Hollywood screen treatment by producer Pandro S. Berman and director...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1958
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The literalism of writer-director Richard Brooks serves him well in this meticulously faithful adaptation of the Robert Ruark...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1957
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Director, Screenwriter
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1956
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Director
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1956
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In this gritty urban drama, war veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) wants to begin his career as a teacher and is given an...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1955
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Director, Screenwriter
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1954
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Filmed on location in Europe, Flame and the Flesh is nothing more nor less than a vehicle for the glamorous Lana Turner. The...
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Director
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1954
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In his only MGM film, Humphrey Bogart plays the commanding officer of a M*A*S*H unit during the Korean War. Bogart runs his...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1953
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"You guys will never be soldiers!" With these words, Richard Widmark opens and closes Take the High Ground. Widmark plays...
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Director
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1953
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An abundance of subplots are expertly woven together by screenwriter/director Richard Brooks in Deadline - USA....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1952
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Director, Screenwriter
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1951
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Blonde good-time girl Vivian Heldon (Jan Sterling), who lives in a cheap rooming house in a working-class section of Boston,...
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Screenwriter
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1950
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Cary Grant's utter credibility in the role of a brilliant, world-famous brain surgeon Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson is the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1950
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Screenwriter
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1950
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In this light drama, Clark Gable once again played his stock-in-trade role of a rogue with a heart of gold. Charlie King...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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Screenwriter
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1948
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To the Victor is one of the first Hollywood films to touch upon the subject of war guilt. There are no high-ranking Nazis or...
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Screenwriter
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1948
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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Screenwriter
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1947
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This drama was one of the first major-studio efforts to confront anti-Semitism (beating the Oscar-winning...
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Book Author
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1947
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One of many films of the late 1940s examining the impact of WWII on post-war domestic life in the U.S., The Swell Guy is the...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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A druggist's pretty assistance ignores the call of the bright lights and audience that runs in the veins of her show biz...
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Screen Story
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1944
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On the eve of her wedding to Ramu (Jon Hall), the beautiful Tollea (Maria Montez) is spirited away from her tranquil South...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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This frothy fantasy adventure centers upon the exotic romance between a shark fisherman (the sharks he captured are used for...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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Marlene Dietrich was supposed to have starred in Universal's Sin Town, but the script was not to her liking. Dietrich was...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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Surprisingly little known, Universal's Men of Texas boasts an impressive cast and a fairly exciting and complex storyline....
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Screenwriter
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1942
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