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W. R. Burnett (1899–1982)

Author of The Great Escape [1963 film]

62+ Works 1,659 Members 30 Reviews 1 Favorited

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Works by W. R. Burnett

The Great Escape [1963 film] (1963) — Screenwriter — 560 copies
The Asphalt Jungle (1949) 257 copies
Little Caesar (1929) 174 copies
High Sierra (1940) 81 copies
High Sierra [1941 film] (2000) — Writer — 62 copies
Captain Lightfoot (1954) 56 copies
This Gun For Hire [1942 film] (1942) — Screenwriter — 55 copies
Ice Station Zebra [1968 film] (1968) — Screenwriter — 50 copies
Nobody Lives Forever (1943) 29 copies
Little Men, Big World (1951) 23 copies
Yellow Sky [1948 film] (1948) — Original book — 20 copies
Vanity Row (1952) 19 copies
The Cool Man (1968) 18 copies
The Racket [1951 film] (1951) — Screenplay — 16 copies
Goodbye, Chicago (1981) 13 copies
Saint Johnson (2015) 12 copies
Round the clock at Volari's (1961) 12 copies
Dark Hazard (1933) 12 copies
Adobe Walls (1953) 10 copies
Iron Man (1930) 9 copies
Underdog (1957) 9 copies
Romelle (1987) 8 copies
Sergeants 3 (1962) 7 copies
Bitter Ground (1958) 7 copies
Pale Moon (2019) 5 copies
Tomorrow's Another Day (1959) 5 copies
I Died a Thousand Times [1955 film] — Writer — 4 copies
King Cole (1988) 4 copies
Nobody Lives Forever [1946 film] (2012) — Writer — 4 copies
Fin de parcours (1989) 4 copies
Stretch Dawson (1950) 4 copies
High Sierra [screenplay of 1941 film] (1941) — Original novel — 3 copies
Du sport à la une (1962) 3 copies
Conant (1961) 3 copies
Muros de adobe (2023) 3 copies
The Whole Town's Talking [1935 film] (1935) — Writer — 2 copies
Ingen lever evigt (1990) 2 copies
Big Stan (1986) 2 copies
Le Samson de l'Ouest (1965) 2 copies
The Gold Seekers (2017) 2 copies
Round Trip 1 copy
Caffe espresso (1962) 1 copy
The Giant Swing (1932) 1 copy
Big stan 1 copy

Associated Works

Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (1995) — Contributor — 184 copies
The Asphalt Jungle [1950 film] (1950) — Original novel — 83 copies
Great American Mystery Stories of the 20th Century (1989) — Contributor — 77 copies
Fifty Best Mysteries (1991) — Contributor — 73 copies
Pulp Fictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996) — Contributor — 70 copies
The Bedside Tales: A Gay Collection (1945) — Contributor — 46 copies
Little Caesar [1931 film] (1931) — Adapted from a work by — 42 copies
The Mammoth Book of Movie Detectives and Screen Crimes (1998) — Contributor — 20 copies
Dark Command [1940 film] (1940) — Original novel — 20 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1946 (1946) — Contributor — 8 copies
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1930 (1930) — Contributor — 2 copies

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FILBO | Apr 24, 2024 |
Perspectives about the agendas, both hidden and public, in regard to the elites willing to take control of essential world elements and thus implant their evil plans. A perspective from a former stock market insider and financier as well an economic analyst.
 
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AldoP | 7 other reviews | Jan 14, 2024 |
Fugitives come across a woman and her grandfather living in an isolated ghost town.

2/4 (Indifferent).

Half the story revolves around the threat of rape. And the climactic shootout happens off screen.
½
 
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comfypants | 1 other review | Dec 3, 2020 |
Average. Whilst modern films are often too fast & frantic this was the opposite - too slow at several points. And ends with a weird plot process where magically they know who is the traitor and those "pesky Russians" start shooting for no apparent reason.
 
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infjsarah | Jul 12, 2020 |

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James Clavell Screenwriter
Albert Maltz Screenwriter
Harry Julian Fink Screenwriter
Douglas Heyes Screenwriter
George E. Diskant Director of Photography, Cinematographer
Lamar Trotti Screenwriter
Russell Hoban Illustrator
Daniel L. Fapp Cinematographer
Paul Brickhill Original book
Zero 7 Animal Actor
Theodore S. Silvia Cinematographer
Alan Ladd Actor
Graham Greene Orginal book
Jim Brown Actor
Ron Masak Actor
Alistair MacLean Original book
John Calley Producer
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Howard Hughes Producer
Hellmuth Karasek Translator
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Christa Hotz Translator
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Rating
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Reviews
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ISBNs
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Languages
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