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Waldo Salt
Writer 1914 - 1987

Waldo Salt

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Waldo Miller Salt (October 18, 1914 – March 7, 1987) was an American screenwriter. He received two Academy Awards for Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Coming Home (1978).

Filmography

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10 titles
Coming Home

Coming Home

Hal Ashby 1978 2h 7m 7.7

In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.

The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust

John Schlesinger 1975 2h 25m 7.3

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

Serpico

Serpico

Sidney Lumet 1973 2h 9m 7.8

The true story about an honest New York cop who blew the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy

John Schlesinger 1969 1h 53m 8.2

A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.

Flight from Ashiya

Flight from Ashiya

Michael Anderson 1964 1h 40m 6.0

A flight crew tries to save the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Japan during a raging typhoon.

Taras Bulba

Taras Bulba

J. Lee Thompson 1962 1h 59m 6.3

Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.

Blast of Silence

Blast of Silence

Allen Baron 1961 1h 17m 7.8

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.

The Flame and the Arrow

The Flame and the Arrow

Jacques Tourneur 1950 1h 28m 7.3

Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.

Rachel and the Stranger

Rachel and the Stranger

Norman Foster 1948 1h 33m 7.0

A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.

The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story

George Cukor 1940 1h 53m 7.8

The Philadelphia Story is a comedy starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn. Tracy Lord is idolised by everybody and must keep her sinister ex-husband, an alcoholic reporter, and her future clean-record husband happy.

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