A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Dan Mainwaring
Geoffrey Homes
Geofrey Homes
Birthplace:
Oakland, California, USA
Born:
July 22, 1902
Died:
January 31, 1977
Daniel Mainwaring (aka Geoffrey Homes) (July 22, 1902 – January 31, 1977) was an American novelist and screenwriter. A native of Oakland, California, he began his professional career as a journalist 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 screenwriter. 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 real mark, 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 regarded as his best—and its adaptation (by "Homes" himself) into the film noir classic Out of the Past assured his place in film history. Mainwaring explained to interviewer Pat McGilligan that he regarded 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. (Wikipedia)
Characters:
1941 Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
Dialogue:
1941 Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
1960 The Revolt of the Slaves
Novel:
1941 Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
1941 No Hands on the Clock
1944 Crime by Night
1947 Out of the Past
1960 The Revolt of the Slaves
1984 Against All Odds
Radio Play:
1941 Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
1941 No Hands on the Clock
1944 Crime by Night
1947 Big Town After Dark
1947 Out of the Past
1948 Big Town Scandal
1960 The Revolt of the Slaves
1984 Against All Odds
Screenplay:
1941 Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
1941 No Hands on the Clock
1942 Secrets of the Underground
1944 Crime by Night
1945 Scared Stiff
1946 Big Town
1946 Swamp Fire
1946 They Made Me a Killer
1946 Tokyo Rose
1947 Big Town After Dark
1947 Out of the Past
1948 Big Town Scandal
1949 Roughshod
1949 The Big Steal
1950 The Eagle and the Hawk
1951 The Last Outpost
1952 Bugles in the Afternoon
1952 This Woman Is Dangerous
1953 Those Redheads from Seattle
1954 Black Horse Canyon
1954 Southwest Passage
1954 The Desperado
1955 A Bullet for Joey
1955 An Annapolis Story
1955 The Phenix City Story
1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1958 Cole Younger, Gunfighter
1958 Space Master X-7
1958 The Gun Runners
1960 The Revolt of the Slaves
1965 Catacombs
1984 Against All Odds
Story:
1941 Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
1941 No Hands on the Clock
1942 Secrets of the Underground
1944 Crime by Night
1945 Scared Stiff
1946 Big Town
1946 Swamp Fire
1946 They Made Me a Killer
1946 Tokyo Rose
1947 Big Town After Dark
1947 Out of the Past
1948 Big Town Scandal
1949 Roughshod
1949 The Big Steal
1950 The Eagle and the Hawk
1951 Roadblock
1951 The Last Outpost
1951 The Tall Target
1952 Bugles in the Afternoon
1952 This Woman Is Dangerous
1953 The Hitch-Hiker
1953 Those Redheads from Seattle
1954 Black Horse Canyon
1954 Southwest Passage
1954 The Desperado
1955 A Bullet for Joey
1955 An Annapolis Story
1955 The Phenix City Story
1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1958 Cole Younger, Gunfighter
1958 Space Master X-7
1958 The Gun Runners
1960 The Revolt of the Slaves
1962 East of Kilimanjaro
1965 Catacombs
1984 Against All Odds
Writer:
1941 Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
1941 No Hands on the Clock
1942 Secrets of the Underground
1944 Crime by Night
1944 Dangerous Passage
1945 Scared Stiff
1946 Big Town
1946 Hot Cargo
1946 Swamp Fire
1946 They Made Me a Killer
1946 Tokyo Rose
1947 Big Town After Dark
1947 Out of the Past
1948 Big Town Scandal
1949 Roughshod
1949 The Big Steal
1950 The Eagle and the Hawk
1950 The Lawless
1951 Roadblock
1951 The Last Outpost
1951 The Tall Target
1952 Bugles in the Afternoon
1952 This Woman Is Dangerous
1953 Powder River
1953 The Hitch-Hiker
1953 Those Redheads from Seattle
1954 Alaska Seas
1954 Black Horse Canyon
1954 Southwest Passage
1954 The Desperado
1955 A Bullet for Joey
1955 An Annapolis Story
1955 The Phenix City Story
1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1957 Baby Face Nelson
1958 Cole Younger, Gunfighter
1958 Space Master X-7
1958 The Gun Runners
1960 The Revolt of the Slaves
1960 Walk Like a Dragon
1961 Atlantis: The Lost Continent
1962 East of Kilimanjaro
1965 Catacombs
1965 Convict Stage
1984 Against All Odds
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