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Writer 1901 - 1980

John Collier

London, England, UK

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

7 titles
Some Call It Loving

Some Call It Loving

James B. Harris 1973 1h 45m 4.0

A woman who's been asleep for years is part of a carnival that sells her kisses for a buck. A lonely jazz musician buys her. Once awake, the two of them and his two girlfriends hook up. But sometimes, dreams are better than reality.

The War Lord

The War Lord

Franklin J. Schaffner 1965 2h 3m 6.3

A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal villiage where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.

The Fountain of Youth

The Fountain of Youth

Orson Welles 1958 27m

A darkly comic fable about vanity and desire, "The Fountain of Youth" follows a newly married couple whose relationship is destabilized by the arrival of a potion that promises centuries of youth and beauty—but in a quantity sufficient for only one person.

The Story of Three Loves

The Story of Three Loves

Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt 1953 2h 2m 7.0

Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.

Deception

Deception

Irving Rapper 1946 1h 50m 9.0

Davis and Rains shine in a romantic melodrama set in the world of concert music. Davis is a pianist torn between her wealthy, jealous patron and her cellist husband.

Elephant Boy

Elephant Boy

Robert Flaherty, Zoltan Korda 1937 1h 22m

This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.

Sylvia Scarlett

Sylvia Scarlett

George Cukor 1935 1h 37m 10.0

When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.

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