• Philip Yordan (April 1, 1914 – March 24, 2003) was an American screenwriter, film producer, novelist and playwright. He was a three-time Academy Award...
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    produced by Samuel Bronston for Allied Artists, with a screenplay by Philip Yordan and Bernard Gordon, and with uncredited contributions from Robert Hamer...
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  • (shim-ain) in the film. The screenplay is credited to Fredric M. Frank, Philip Yordan and Ben Barzman, with uncredited contributions by Bernard Gordon. During...
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  • American boxing film noir directed by Mark Robson, produced and written by Philip Yordan, based on Budd Schulberg's 1947 novel. It was Humphrey Bogart's final...
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    film in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor, produced by George Pitcher and Philip Yordan and directed by Steve Sekely and Freddie Francis. It stars Howard Keel...
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  • 1946 American film noir directed by Arthur Ripley. The screenplay by Philip Yordan is based on Cornell Woolrich's 1944 novel The Black Path of Fear. It...
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    Films and distributed by United Artists. The screenplay was written by Philip Yordan, based on a 1941 novel of the title by Maritta M. Wolff. Away for two...
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  • and Nicholas Ray was hired as director. Ray then hired screenwriter Philip Yordan to write a new script. Filming commenced in April 1960 and wrapped in...
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  • Samuel Bronston, with a screenplay by Ben Barzman, Basilio Franchina and Philip Yordan. The film stars Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason...
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  • originally purchased the film rights as a vehicle for Robert Wagner. Philip Yordan read the novel and insisted on writing a script based on the book. Filming...
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    1955 American crime film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis, written by Philip Yordan and photographed by cinematographer John Alton, with music by David...
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  • Yordan is a given name and less often a surname. Notable people with the name include: Philip Yordan (1914–2003), American screenwriter Yordan Álvarez...
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  • Satan Worship, Mind Control and Mass Murder: The (Later) Films of Philip Yordan Portals: 1980s Speculative fiction/Horror Film United States Bloody...
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  • Additionally, Peter Graves is listed in the opening credits. In February 1955 Philip Yordan announced he would write and produce a film of the Krakatoa eruption...
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  • roles in their film debuts. The film was adapted by Robert Wyler and Philip Yordan from the 1949 play of the same name by Sidney Kingsley. It was nominated...
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  • Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, and Cathy O'Donnell. Written by Philip Yordan and Frank Burt, the film is about a stranger who defies a local cattle...
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  • directed by Anthony Mann from a screenplay by Aeneas MacKenzie and Philip Yordan, and starring Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart and Arlene Dahl. Set...
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  • Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, and Richard Conte. The screenplay by Philip Yordan and Mankiewicz (who chose to go uncredited) is the first of three film...
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    Congress. Retrieved July 26, 2022. McGilligan, Pat (June 26, 1988). "Philip Yordan: The Ghosts and the Screenwriter". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July...
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  • the short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants" into a feature film, with Philip Yordan to write the screenplay. In March 1953, Charlton Heston was announced...
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  • the American public. Some sources claim that credited screenwriter Philip Yordan was actually fronting for the blacklisted Ben Maddow. The Pentagon refused...
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  • Train to Terror is a 1985 American anthology horror film written by Philip Yordan and directed by Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, with segments directed by John...
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    first husband was screenwriter Philip Yordan, who introduced her to Hollywood's highest echelons. Nash's marriage to Yordan ended in divorce in the early...
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  • script by Philip Yordan. The film starred Maurice Grandmaison as Brigham Young, and Richard Moll as Joseph Smith. In a 1988 interview, Yordan recalled...
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  • the life of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, was written by Philip Yordan, based on the book Houdini by Harold Kellock. The film's music score...
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  • in recent decades the film's scandalous reputation has diminished. Philip Yordan was officially given credit for the screenplay, but Ben Maddow claimed...
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  • as Jim Faith Clift as Dr. Helen Foster Cry Wilderness was written by Philip Yordan with an estimated 100 writing credits in film since the 1940s, including...
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  • Cummings, Philip Yordan and Eugene Frenke, had bought the rights to Joe MacBeth, based on an original screenplay by Philip Yordan. Yordan wrote the film...
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  • ice-skating-themed film noir directed by Frank Tuttle and written by Philip Yordan. The film stars Barry Sullivan and former Olympic skater Belita. The...
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  • to "King". They had notable collaborations with such filmmakers as Philip Yordan and William Castle and are particularly remembered today for employing...
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