Tag: Richard Brooks

Elmer Gantry Script

Script by:Richard Brooks (Screenplay), Sinclair Lewis (Novel)
Directed by:Richard Brooks
Year:1960
IMDb:tt0053793

Plot:When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.
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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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Brothers Karamazov Script

Script by:Julius J. Epstein (Screenplay), Richard Brooks (Screenplay), Philip G. Epstein (Screenplay)
Directed by:Richard Brooks
Year:1958
IMDb:tt0051435

Plot:Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
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Blackboard Jungle Script

Script by:Richard Brooks (Writer), Evan Hunter (Novel)
Directed by:Richard Brooks
Year:1955
IMDb:tt0047885

Plot:Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
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Looking For Mr. Goodbar Script

Script by:Judith Rossner (Novel)
Directed by:Richard Brooks
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0076327

Plot:A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.
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Something of Value Script

Script by:Richard Brooks (Screenplay), Robert C. Ruark (Novel)
Directed by:Richard Brooks
Year:1957
IMDb:tt0050993

Plot:As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
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