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Richard B. Sale (1911–1993)

Auteur de Suddenly [1954 film]

42+ oeuvres 249 utilisateurs 8 critiques

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Comprend aussi: Richard Sale (2)

Œuvres de Richard B. Sale

Suddenly [1954 film] (1954) — Screenwriter — 72 exemplaires
For the President's Eyes Only (1971) 22 exemplaires
The White Buffalo (1975) 16 exemplaires
The Oscar (1963) 14 exemplaires
Vapautta kohti (1950) 12 exemplaires
Lazarus #7 (1950) 10 exemplaires
Let's Make It Legal [1951 film] (1951) — Director — 9 exemplaires
Benefit performance (1946) 8 exemplaires
The Girl Next Door [1953 film] (1953) — Directeur — 8 exemplaires
Passing Strange (1942) 7 exemplaires
The White Buffalo [1977 film] (2011) — Screenwriter — 7 exemplaires
GUIDE TO THE COTSWOLD WAY (1980) 6 exemplaires
Is a ship burning? (2019) 5 exemplaires
The House Of Kaa (2019) 4 exemplaires
The Cobra: The King of Detectives (2009) 4 exemplaires
The Whispering Corpse 3 exemplaires
Abandon Ship — Directeur — 3 exemplaires
The Grinning Ghoul 3 exemplaires
Terror Towers 3 exemplaires
Half Angel (2012) 3 exemplaires
Torpedo Run [1958 film] (2014) — Screenwriter — 2 exemplaires
Bring Back Her Body / Passing Strange (Ace Mystery Double D-23) (1953) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Man Who Raised Hell (1971) 2 exemplaires
Sting Of The Scorpion 2 exemplaires
The Reptile Murders 2 exemplaires
Death At Sea (1943) (1948) 2 exemplaires
Yancy Derringer: Ticket to Natchez — Directeur; Writer — 1 exemplaire
Yancy Derringer: Return to New Orleans (1958) — Scriptwriter — 1 exemplaire
"Last Trip" 1 exemplaire
"Till Doomsday" 1 exemplaire
"Warhead" 1 exemplaire
"Short Voyage Home" 1 exemplaire
Home Is the Hangman 1 exemplaire
A Nose for News 1 exemplaire
Perseus Had a Helmet 1 exemplaire
Yancy Derringer: Gallatin Street (1958) — Scriptwriter — 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (2007) — Contributeur — 537 exemplaires
The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996) — Contributeur — 179 exemplaires
The Hardboiled Dicks (1965) — Contributeur — 45 exemplaires
Mysterious Sea Stories (1985) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
Robert Penn Warren talking: Interviews, 1950-1978 (1980) — Interviewer — 14 exemplaires
The Mystery Companion (1943) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
The Pulp Crime MEGAPACK®: 25 Noir Mysteries (2016) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires

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Partage des connaissances

Date de naissance
1911-12-17
Date de décès
1993-03-04
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Professions
screenwriter
film director
pulp fiction writer

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When I stepped outside my Hammett-Chandler-Ross Macdonald comfort zone, the very first hard-boiled crime story I read by a more obscure author was "A Nose for News" by Richard Sale. Originally published in Detective Fiction Weekly in 1934, it was funny, fast-paced and engrossing; I was impressed by Sale's ability to cram enough action for a novel into just twenty-three pages. (You can find that story in Ron Goulart's first-rate collection The Hardboiled Dicks.) His skill as a writer is not in doubt.

Which makes a book like 1946's Benefit Performance all the more disappointing. It's readable, but so bland and undistinguished that you'll wonder why you even bothered. Sale's humor is intact (that's what got me through the novel), but all the rough edges--the things that made the crime stories in pulp magazines so interesting--have been ground off. This tale of an aging Hollywood star pretending that he's dead to draw his antagonist into the open is a good example of how the crime genre tended to suffer when its authors took the mainstream route.
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Jonathan_M | May 3, 2024 |
El centro del relato lo ocupan dos héroes muy distintos: el nervioso, elegante y mortífero maestro del gatillo que ha llegado al territorio de Wyoming siguiendo al general Custer, «Wild» (Salvaje) Bill Hickok batidor, pistolero y leyenda viviente- en busca de su última aventura, y un indio, «Gusano», «Nadonaissioux mieyebo», que muy pronto sería conocido como Caballo Loco y más tarde lucharía en Little Big Horn.

Ambos hombres comparten el mismo sueño: matar (o ser muertos) por el último de los grandes búfalos blancos cuya mística presencia les obsesiona. La búsqueda de esta criatura fabulosa (y muy real, por cierto) les conduce a las solitarias tierras altas del Oeste en su postrera época selvática; a pequeñas localidades llenas de buscadores de oro arruinados, prostitutas y asesinos; a campamentos del ejército; a las elevadas montañas, los llanos cubiertos de hierba y los poblados indios, hasta que finalmente las figuras más legendarias del Oeste -Hickok y Caballo Loco- se encuentran en un aterrador y asombroso clímax ante el enfurecido ataque del mismísimo búfalo blanco.… (plus d'informations)
 
Signalé
Natt90 | Nov 9, 2022 |
Sinatra is great as a hired killer who holds a family and sheriff hostage to get a vantage point to kill the President. A more pro-gun movie you'll never see. Sterling Hayden is also great as the sheriff who is trying to stop him.
 
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datrappert | 1 autre critique | Feb 25, 2022 |
I remember reading this as a kid. It was tawdry, badly written and a full on Soap Opera Plot. It's about a Sleazy actor who claws his way tot he top and wins an Oscar...then falls just as quickly. Nothing new here.
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silversurfer | Feb 21, 2013 |

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Œuvres
42
Aussi par
8
Membres
249
Popularité
#91,698
Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
8
ISBN
34
Langues
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