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David Zelag Goodman
Writer 1930 - 2011

David Zelag Goodman

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

David Zelag Goodman (1930-2011) was an American playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter. He was known in Hollywood as a "script doctor" due to his ability to quickly identify and fix flaws in a screenplay.

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

10 titles
Fighting Back

Fighting Back

Lewis Teague 1982 1h 38m

An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.

Freedom Road

Freedom Road

Ján Kadár 1979 3h 6m 5.0

A former slave Gideon Jackson, after fighting in the civil war returns home as a free man and becomes a U.S. senator. Will he ever achieve real equality with his former white master?

Eyes of Laura Mars

Eyes of Laura Mars

Irvin Kershner 1978 1h 44m 5.8

Suddenly Laura Mars can see through the eyes of a serial killer as he commits his crimes.

March or Die

March or Die

Dick Richards 1977 1h 47m 5.0

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…

Logan's Run

Logan's Run

Michael Anderson 1976 1h 58m 6.8

An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at 30.

Farewell, My Lovely

Farewell, My Lovely

Dick Richards 1975 1h 35m 8.3

Robert Mitchum's first take as Raymond Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe.

Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs

Sam Peckinpah 1971 1h 56m 8.4

Straw Dogs is an American thriller from director Sam Peckinpah from 1971. Dustin Hoffman stars as a mathematician who faces a ruthless revenge of pressing power.

Monte Walsh

Monte Walsh

William A. Fraker 1970 1h 39m

Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for.

Lovers and Other Strangers

Lovers and Other Strangers

Cy Howard 1970 1h 44m

Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his overly devout Catholic mother Beatrice.

The Stranglers of Bombay

The Stranglers of Bombay

Terence Fisher 1959 1h 20m 6.5

In the 1830s, a captain in the East India Company lobbies to investigate the criminal Thugee Cult of Kali, an organized crime group of stranglers and thieves.

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