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Daniel Mainwaring
Oakland, California, USA
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 ca…
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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)
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1984
Against All Odds
Movie Writer
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1965
Catacombs
Movie Screenplay
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1965
Convict Stage
Movie Writer
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1962
East of Kilimanjaro
Movie Story
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1961
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
Movie Writer
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1960
The Revolt of the Slaves
Movie Dialogue
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1960
Walk Like a Dragon
Movie Writer
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1958
The Gun Runners
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1958
Space Master X-7
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1958
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
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1957
Baby Face Nelson
Movie Writer
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1956
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Movie Screenplay
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1955
The Phenix City Story
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1955
A Bullet for Joey
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1955
An Annapolis Story
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1954
The Desperado
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1954
Black Horse Canyon
Movie Screenplay
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1954
Southwest Passage
Movie Screenplay
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1954
Alaska Seas
Movie Writer
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1953
Those Redheads from Seattle
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1953
Powder River
Movie Writer
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1953
The Hitch-Hiker
Movie Story
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1952
Bugles in the Afternoon
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1952
This Woman Is Dangerous
Movie Screenplay
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1951
Roadblock
Movie Story
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1951
The Tall Target
Movie Story
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1951
The Last Outpost
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1950
The Eagle and the Hawk
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1950
The Lawless
Movie Writer
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1949
The Big Steal
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1949
Roughshod
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1948
Big Town Scandal
Movie Radio Play
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1947
Big Town After Dark
Movie Radio Play
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1947
Out of the Past
Movie Screenplay
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1946
Swamp Fire
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1946
Big Town
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1946
Hot Cargo
Movie Writer
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1946
They Made Me a Killer
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1946
Tokyo Rose
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1945
Scared Stiff
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