Biography
Daniel Mainwaring, better known under the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes was a prolific novelist and screenwriter for Hollywood. Though he began his career writing hardboiled detective and mystery novels like his 1948 whodunit The Case of the Mexican Knife, he later penned a series of successful screenplays (61 in total, between 1941 and 1968), including cult sci-fi thriller Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), and two classic American noirs – Don Siegel’s The Big Steal in 1949 and Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker in 1953 - both of which will be screened as part of the festival’s Mexico Imaginario section this year. His writing had both a complexity and a pitch-perfect ability to render the kind of small-town Americana that he was, ironically, accused of betraying when he was placed on the Hollywood anti-Communist blacklist – a register designed to prevent screenwriters and other professionals from obtaining employment due to purported Communist sympathies. Though he was damaged by this denouncement, he is remembered as a prolific, complex and brilliant author – “a much underrated writer and a really quite noble man” (Joseph Losey, 1985).
Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia
Screenwriter
Series | |
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1968 |
Mannix |
Who Will Dig the Graves? (S02E08) |
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1967 |
Cimarron Strip |
Custer |
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1965 |
A Man Called Shenandoah |
Court Martial |
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The Wild Wild West |
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1961 |
Cain's Hundred |
Target: The Corruptors |
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1960 |
Outlaws |
1959 |
Adventures in Paradise |
1957 |
The Restless Gun |
1956 |
General Electric Summer Originals |
Author
Movies | |
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1948 |
Big Town Scandal - radio play |
1947 |
Big Town After Dark - radio play |
Out of the Past - book |
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1944 |
Crime by Night - book |
1941 |
No Hands on the Clock - book |