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| Robert Mitchum, ca. 1948 |
In
The Big Steal, army lieutenant Robert Mitchum pursues Patric Knowles, who has stolen a $300,000 payroll that is Mitchum's responsibility. Jane Greer and William Bendix costar. One of the screenwriters is Daniel Mainwaring (aka Geoffrey Homes, author of
Build My Gallows High), who adapted with Gerald Drayson Adams "The Road to Carmichael's" (
Saturday Evening Post, Sept. 1942) by western, sci fi, and pulp writer
Richard Wormser (1907–77). Wormser offers wry comments about his career (such as the observation that he once wrote 17 novels in 10 months) in
How to Become a Complete Nonentity: A Memoir.
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