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John Garfield in
Nobody Lives Forever
(writ. W. R. Burnett, 1946) |
W[illiam]. R[iley]. Burnett, author of the hard-edged classics
Little Caesar (1929),
High Sierra (1940),
Nobody Lives Forever (1943),
The Asphalt Jungle (1949), and several other novels, was born today in Springfield, Ohio, in 1899. His scripts include the films
The Getaway,
This Gun for Hire,
The Racket, and
The Great Escape as well as episodes of the TV series
Naked City and
The Untouchables. MWA named him a Grand Master in 1980; he died in 1982.
Stark House Press has reissued Burnett's
It's Always Four O'Clock (1956) and
Iron Man (1930).
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