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Daniel Taradash
Writer 1913 - 2003

Daniel Taradash

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Daniel Taradash (January 29, 1913 – February 22, 2003) was an American screenwriter.

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

14 titles
From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity

1979 6h

The life of the men and families of G Company, 24th Infantry Division, United States Army.

Doctors' Wives

Doctors' Wives

George Schaefer 1971 1h 42m 5.0

The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze.

Castle Keep

Castle Keep

Sydney Pollack 1969 1h 45m 7.3

During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.

Hawaii

Hawaii

George Roy Hill 1966 3h 9m 6.0

Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.

Alvarez Kelly

Alvarez Kelly

Edward Dmytryk 1966 1h 46m 5.5

A suave Mexican cattleman inadvertently gets involved in the Civil War.

Morituri

Morituri

Bernhard Wicki 1965 2h 3m 7.0

A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for Germany carrying a large supply of rubber for tyres. His mission is to disable the scuttling charges so the captain cannot sink the ship if they are stopped by English warships.

Bell Book and Candle

Bell Book and Candle

Richard Quine 1958 1h 46m 6.7
Picnic

Picnic

Joshua Logan 1955 1h 54m 6.3

Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.

Désirée

Désirée

Henry Koster 1954 1h 50m 6.5

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall.

From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity

Fred Zinnemann 1953 1h 58m 7.2

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Rancho Notorious

Rancho Notorious

Fritz Lang 1952 1h 26m 7.0

A cowboy infiltrates a bandit hideout in search of his girlfriend''s killer.

Don't Bother to Knock

Don't Bother to Knock

Roy Ward Baker 1952 1h 16m 7.3

An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

Knock on Any Door

Knock on Any Door

Nicholas Ray 1949 1h 40m 7.3

Bogart plays a crusading lawyer fighting to save a juvenile delinquent charged with murder.

The Noose Hangs High

The Noose Hangs High

Charles Barton 1948 1h 17m 5.0

Two window washers mistakenly receive, and lose, $50,000 belonging to a shady bookie, and have only forty-eight hours to retrieve the money.

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