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Perhaps best known for his 1938 O. Henry Award-winning short story "The Happiest Man on Earth," and his 1944 novel The Cross and the Arrow, he had also penned scripts for This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle, 1942), a film noir starring Veronica Lake, and Pride of the Marines (Delmer Daves, 1945), a biographical war film.
May 11, 2023 · RBML researcher and Swansea University PhD candidate, Gary Ley writes a guest essay about delving into the Albert Maltz collection at Columbia. Maltz, a screenwriter, novelist, and playwright, was jailed after his refusal to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee regarding his membership in the Communist Party.
Ten, Maltz is recognized today for scripts written while on the blacklist, for the Jimmy Stewart western Broken Arrow (Delmer Daves, ) and for the biblical epic The Robe (Henry Koster, ). Not surprisingly, Maltz’s legacy tends to be understood solely through his
Destination Tokyo is a 1943 black and white American submarine war film. [3] The film was directed by Delmer Daves in his directorial debut, [4] and the screenplay was written by Daves and Albert Maltz, based on an original story by former submariner Steve Fisher. [5]
The Ethical Romantic. By Bertrand Tavernier in the January-February 2003 Issue. Dark Passage. Delmer Daves is the most forgotten of the American directors championed by French film critics in the Fifties—why? The reasons have little to do with his true stature as a filmmaker.
Whether working with other scriptwriters like Albert Maltz (Pride of the Marines) or Richard Brooks (To the Victor), or working from his own scripts, as in The Red House and Dark Passage, Daves was a solid and dependable director. But he rarely rose above the quality of his original material.”
Nov 11, 2009 · In 1946, Albert Maltz – Communist, screenwriter, novelist and future member of the Hollywood Ten – penned a controversial article in which he made a plea for artistic freedom.
