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Richard B. Sale (1911–1993)

Auteur van Suddenly [1954 film]

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Werken van Richard B. Sale

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

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The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (2007) — Medewerker — 536 exemplaren
The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996) — Medewerker — 178 exemplaren
The Hardboiled Dicks (1965) — Medewerker — 45 exemplaren
Mysterious Sea Stories (1985) — Medewerker — 30 exemplaren
Robert Penn Warren talking: Interviews, 1950-1978 (1980) — Interviewer — 14 exemplaren
The Mystery Companion (1943) — Medewerker — 12 exemplaren
The Pulp Crime MEGAPACK®: 25 Noir Mysteries (2016) — Medewerker — 11 exemplaren

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Geboortedatum
1911-12-17
Overlijdensdatum
1993-03-04
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Beroepen
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.… (meer)
 
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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 andere bespreking | 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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Werken
42
Ook door
8
Leden
249
Populariteit
#91,698
Waardering
½ 3.7
Besprekingen
8
ISBNs
34
Talen
4

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