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Carl Foreman
Writer 1914 - 1984

Carl Foreman

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Carl Foreman, CBE was an American screenwriter and film producer who wrote the award-winning films The Bridge on the River Kwai and High Noon, among others. He was one of the screenwriters who were blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s because of their suspected communist... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

17 titles
When Time Ran Out...

When Time Ran Out...

James Goldstone 1980 2h 1m 1.0

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

Young Winston

Young Winston

Richard Attenborough 1972 2h 29m

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.

Mackenna's Gold

Mackenna's Gold

J. Lee Thompson 1969 2h 8m 5.5

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

The Victors

The Victors

Carl Foreman 1963 2h 55m 6.0

Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.

The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

J. Lee Thompson 1961 2h 40m 7.4

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai

David Lean 1957 2h 42m 8.5

A classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

A Hatful of Rain

A Hatful of Rain

Fred Zinnemann 1957 1h 49m

Based on the stage play by Michael V. Gazzo, this noir-stained drama provides a searing look at the emotional carnage of a drug addicted ex-G.I. (Don Murray) along with his family and friends. Perhaps the harshest and most realistic perspective of a grim topic that holds up better than any other film of its type.

The Sleeping Tiger

The Sleeping Tiger

Joseph Losey 1954 1h 29m 8.0

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.

High Noon

High Noon

Fred Zinnemann 1952 1h 25m 7.9

High Noon is about a recently freed leader of a gang of bandits in the desert who is looking to get revenge on the Sheriff who put him in jail. A legendary western film from the Austrian director Fred Zinnemann.

Young Man with a Horn

Young Man with a Horn

Michael Curtiz 1950 1h 52m 8.5

Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jazz instead of the commercial gigs he lands, whilst also coping with the problems caused by his tempestuous marriage to an aloof heiress.

The Men

The Men

Fred Zinnemann 1950 1h 25m 7.0

A paralyzed war vet tries to adjust to the world without the use of his limbs.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

Michael Gordon 1950 1h 53m 8.5

José Ferrer won the Oscar for Best Actor for his portayal of the swordsman-poet using his silver tongue to woo the woman he loves for another man.

The Clay Pigeon

The Clay Pigeon

Richard Fleischer 1949 1h 3m

A man awakens from a coma to discover he's accused of treason.

Home of the Brave

Home of the Brave

Mark Robson 1949 1h 26m

A sensitive, educated black man's World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate of his peace-time problems which are pointed up in a flashback of his life, and primarily of his war-time adventures with four white soldiers on a dangerous reconnaissance mission on a Japanese-held island.

Champion

Champion

Mark Robson 1949 1h 39m 9.0

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. One of the all-time great boxing movies. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Actor--Kirk Douglas, Best Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Film Editing.

Spooks Run Wild

Spooks Run Wild

Phil Rosen 1941 1h 5m 5.0

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

Bowery Blitzkrieg

Bowery Blitzkrieg

Wallace Fox 1941 1h 2m 5.0

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.

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