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    William R. Burnett at IMDb W.R. Burnett bibliography W.R. Burnett (bio), by John Strausbaugh, at The Chiseler W.R. Burnett at detnovel.com W. R. Burnett at...
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  • Jim Brown. The screenplay is by Douglas Heyes, Harry Julian Fink, and W. R. Burnett, loosely based on Alistair MacLean's 1963 novel. Both have parallels...
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  • illusion of tunnels. The film's screenplay was adapted by James Clavell, W. R. Burnett and Walter Newman. Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and James Coburn all...
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  • The Whole Town's Talking (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    Swerling and Robert Riskin based on a story by W.R. Burnett originally published in Collier's in August 1932. Burnett was also the author of the source material...
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  • American action drama war film directed by John Farrow, written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald...
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  • Dark Command (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    during the American Civil War. Directed by Raoul Walsh from the novel by W. R. Burnett, Dark Command is the only film in which western icons John Wayne and...
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  • High Sierra (film) (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    noir directed by Raoul Walsh, written by William R. Burnett and John Huston from the novel by Burnett, and starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart. Its...
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  • film starring Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith. The film was written by W. R. Burnett and Alan Le May and directed in Technicolor by David Butler as well...
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  • Yellow Sky (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    James Barton as Grandpa Charles Kemper as Walrus The studio purchased W. R. Burnett's unpublished novel for $35,000 in November 1947. All drafts of the screenplay...
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  • Nobody Lives Forever (film) (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    by Jean Negulesco and based on the novel I Wasn't Born Yesterday by W. R. Burnett. It stars John Garfield and Geraldine Fitzgerald and features Walter...
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  • Burnett may refer to: William Burnett (1779–1861), British physician William Burnett (mayor), politician from New Zealand, see Mayor of Dunedin W. R....
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  • I Died a Thousand Times (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    scene-by-scene remake of High Sierra (1941), which was based upon a novel by W.R. Burnett and starred Humphrey Bogart as Earle. The same story had also been transformed...
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    Arrowhead (1953 film) (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    and Milburn Stone. The picture is based on the novel Adobe Walls by W. R. Burnett. The screenplay was also by Charles Marquis Warren. Maverick scout Ed...
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    was announced that MacArthur would make Underdog, based on a novel by W. R. Burnett, along with his mother and Susan Strasberg, but the project never materialized...
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  • first imprint was issued in 1924. Authors included Elizabeth Bowen, W. R. Burnett and Glenway Wescott, Frank Yerby, James Baldwin, Roy Campbell, Susan...
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  • King of the Underworld (1939 film) (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    of the 1935 film Dr. Socrates, which was based on a short story by W. R. Burnett. Married doctors Niles and Carole Nelson save the life of a gangster...
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  • Iron Man (1951 film) (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    Pevney Screenplay by Borden Chase George Zuckerman Based on the novel by W. R. Burnett Produced by Aaron Rosenberg Starring Jeff Chandler Evelyn Keyes Stephen...
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  • Colorado Territory (film) (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    Edmund H. North and John Twist, and based on the novel High Sierra by W.R. Burnett, the film is about an outlaw who is sprung from jail to help pull one...
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  • Law and Order (1953 film) (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    Durango Kid Richard Garrick as Judge Williams This was the fourth time W.R. Burnett's story was adapted for a film by Universal, following the 1932, 1937...
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    The Asphalt Jungle (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    of her earliest roles. Based on the 1949 novel of the same name by W. R. Burnett, it tells the story of a jewel robbery in a Midwestern city. Produced...
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    The Badlanders (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    and Ernest Borgnine. Based on the 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett, the story was given an 1898 setting by screenwriter Richard Collins...
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    Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American comedian, actress, and singer. Her comedy-variety show The Carol Burnett Show, which originally...
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    Little Caesar (film) (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    Salvatore Maranzano, was adapted from the novel of the same name by William R. Burnett. Little Caesar was Robinson's breakthrough role and immediately made him...
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    historical significance was augmented by the film's writing credits: W. R. Burnett, author of gangster novel Little Caesar from which the film of the same...
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  • Accused of Murder (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    Kane Screenplay by Robert Creighton Williams W. R. Burnett Based on the novel Vanity Row by W. R. Burnett Produced by Joseph Kane Starring David Brian...
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    Huston, Bogart's friend and drinking partner, adapted from a novel by W. R. Burnett, author of the novel on which Little Caesar was based. Paul Muni, George...
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  • Cool Breeze (film) (category Films based on works by W. R. Burnett)
    was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is loosely based on W. R. Burnett's 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle. It is the fourth film adaptation of...
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  • and set in politically neutral Turkey, the screenplay was credited to W. R. Burnett, although William Faulkner and Daniel Fuchs also contributed. The movie...
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    for the Planet of the Apes. Huston is famous to a generation of fans of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth stories as the voice of the wizard Gandalf in the...
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  • Burnett is a Scottish surname. It is derived from a nickname from the Old French burnete, brunette, which is a diminutive of brun meaning "brown", "dark...
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