Daniel Mainwaring - Фильмы

Daniel Mainwaring (ака Джеффри Homes) (July 22, 1902 – 31 января 1977) was an American novelist and сценарист. A native of Oakland, California, he began his professional career as a журналист for the San Francisco Chronicle and enjoyed a successful career as a mystery novelist (under the name Geoffrey Homes). He worked as a film publicist and eventually abandoned fiction for a successful career as a сценарист. His first novel (and the only one he ever published under his own name), One Against the Earth, was a proletarian novel about a young man born on a California ranch who becomes a drifter and is eventually unjustly accused of attacking a child, was published in 1932. He made his mark real, however, with a string of hard-boiled mystery novels (mostly with small-town California settings), the first of which was The Man Who Murdered Himself (1936). His final published novel, Build My Gallows High (William Morrow & Co., 1946), is generally считал себя сюрреализма as his best and its adaptation (by "Homes" a Word) into the film noir classic Out of the Past assured his place in film history. Mainwaring explained to интервьюер Пат McGilligan that he считал себя сюрреализма the novel as a departure from his earlier literary efforts: With Build My Gallows High, I wanted to get away from straight mystery novels. Those detective stories are a bore to write. You've got to figure out "whodunit". I'D get to the end and have to say whodunit and be so mixed up I couldn't decide myself.