Tag: Maxwell Anderson

The Bad Seed Script

Script by:John Lee Mahin (Screenplay), Maxwell Anderson (Theatre Play), William March (Novel)
Directed by:Mervyn LeRoy
Year:1956
IMDb:tt0048977

Plot:Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, dote on their daughter, Rhoda -- as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove. But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for selfishness and loves to accumulate gifts, whether given or stolen, in her room. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
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Key Largo Script

Script by:Richard Brooks (Screenplay), John Huston (Screenplay), Maxwell Anderson (Theatre Play)
Directed by:John Huston
Year:1948
IMDb:tt0040506

Plot:A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
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What Price Glory Script

Script by:Phoebe Ephron (Screenplay), Henry Ephron (Screenplay), Maxwell Anderson (Theatre Play), Laurence Stallings (Theatre Play)
Directed by:John Ford
Year:1952
IMDb:tt0045323

Plot:Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg's top sergeant. And when a local beauty comes between them, their rivalry escalates even further. But when they discover that the woman has marriage in mind, they now compete to try to avoid marching down the aisle - that is, until they are called upon to march into battle.
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