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Delmer Daves (1904–1977) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his dramas and Western adventures, most notably Broken Arrow and 3:10 to Yuma. Despite the popularity of his films, there has been little serious examination of Daves’s work. Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has called Daves the most forgotten of American ...
Added: Jul 31, 2000. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 11351. Source citation. Motion Picture Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor. He was the producer on 8 films including: Bird of Paradise and Spencer's Mountain. Actor in 13 films. Director of 30 films including: Hollywood Canteen, Demetrius and the Gladiators, A Summer Place and Spencer's Mountain.
Broken Arrow (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Cochise Having spent a month learning Apache language and customs, and a big riding-in sequence from director Delmer Daves, Arizona scout Jeffords (James Stewart), having decided on his own to negotiate with Cochise (Jeff Chandler) to permit mail service, meets the imposing chief, in Broken Arrow, 1950.
Delmer Daves’ 1958 Western Cowboy opens in a Chicago hotel where Frank Harris (Jack Lemmon) is a clerk who has fallen in love with the daughter of a Mexican cattle baron, Vidal (Donald Randolph). Vidal orders Harris to stay away from the girl (Maria, played by Anna Kashfi), and returns with her to Mexico.
Delmer Lawrence Daves was an American screenwriter, film director and film producer. He worked in many genres, including film noir and warfare, but he is best known for his Western movies, especially Broken Arrow (1950), The Last Wagon (1956), 3:10 to Yuma (1957) and The Hanging Tree (1959).
May 14, 2013 · M any of Delmer Daves’s films are beloved today, but to say that he remains a misunderstood and insufficiently appreciated figure in the history of American movies is a rank understatement. Daves was at once a true artist, a western specialist, and a Hollywood pro whose work was respected by insiders but received little in the way of official recognition.
Delmer Daves is the property of those who can enjoy stylistic conviction in an intellectual vacuum. The movies of Delmer Daves are fun of a very special kind. Call it Camp or call it Corn. The director does not so much transcend his material as mingle with it." - Andrew Sarris (The American Cinema, 1968)
