Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks

1912-05-18 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 45 Credits

Biography

Richard Brooks (May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American screenwriter, director, novelist and occasional producer. His outstanding works as director are Blackboard Jungle (1955); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958); Elmer Gantry (1960) – for which he won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay); In Cold Blood (1967); and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). Brooks was one of the relatively few filmmakers whose careers bridged the transition from the classic studio system to the independ...

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Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

1988

as Self

7.0
Acting

A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.

Bacall on Bogart

Bacall on Bogart

1988

as Self

6.0
Acting

Lauren Bacall tells the story of her late husband Humphrey Bogart, presenting clips from his movies and interview clips with his peers.

A Special Friendship

A Special Friendship

1987

as Matt Bowser

Acting

During the American Civil War, two women, a wealthy white woman and a freed black slave, join forces to fight for freedom and the abolition of slavery...

Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch

1985

Writer, Director

3.7
Writing Directing

An investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry — organized gambling.

Wrong Is Right

Wrong Is Right

1982

Writer, Director, Producer

5.5
Writing Directing Producing

Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in th...

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

1977

Director, Screenplay

6.3
Directing Writing

A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she beg...

Bite the Bullet

Bite the Bullet

1975

Writer, Director, Producer

6.4
Writing Directing Producing

At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, amo...

Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait

Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait

1975

as Self

4.0
Acting

Vintage 1975 documentary about the life of movie queen Elizabeth Taylor hosted by Peter Lawford, and featuring appearances by actors Roddy McDowall an...

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1971

Director, Writer

6.1
Directing Writing

A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.

The Happy Ending

The Happy Ending

1969

Producer, Director, Writer

6.0
Producing Directing Writing

When Fred asked for Mary's hand in marriage, she thought she had the happy ending she only read about in fairy tales. Now it's 16 years later; Fred ha...

In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood

1967

Director, Screenplay

7.5
Directing Writing

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality...

The Professionals

The Professionals

1966

Producer, Director, Screenplay

7.1
Producing Directing Writing

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

Lord Jim

Lord Jim

1965

Director, Producer, Writer

6.8
Directing Producing Writing

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in pa...

Sweet Bird of Youth

Sweet Bird of Youth

1962

Director, Screenplay

6.8
Directing Writing

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him b...

Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry

1960

Screenplay, Director

7.3
Writing Directing

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1958

Director, Screenplay

7.7
Directing Writing

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy w...

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

1958

Director, Writer

6.6
Directing Writing

Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons ...

Something of Value

Something of Value

1957

Director, Screenplay

5.5
Directing Writing

As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British co...

The Catered Affair

The Catered Affair

1956

Director

7.1
Directing

An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.

The Last Hunt

The Last Hunt

1956

Director, Writer

6.7
Directing Writing

A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.

Blackboard Jungle

Blackboard Jungle

1955

Director, Screenplay

6.9
Directing Writing

Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadi...

The Last Time I Saw Paris

The Last Time I Saw Paris

1954

Director, Screenplay

6.0
Directing Writing

Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her siste...

Flame and the Flesh

Flame and the Flesh

1954

Director

10.0
Directing

American woman in Europe romanced by local gigolo; problems ensue.

Take the High Ground!

Take the High Ground!

1953

Director

5.7
Directing

Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he r...

Battle Circus

Battle Circus

1953

Writer, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

A young Army nurse, Lt Ruth McGara, newly assigned to the 66th MASH during the Korean War, attracts the sexual attention of the unit's commander Dr. (...

Deadline - U.S.A.

Deadline - U.S.A.

1952

Director, Writer

6.8
Directing Writing

With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

The Light Touch

The Light Touch

1951

Director, Screenplay

6.2
Directing Writing

An art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.

Storm Warning

Storm Warning

1951

Writer

6.6
Writing

A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sis...

Crisis

Crisis

1950

Director, Writer

6.6
Directing Writing

An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.

Mystery Street

Mystery Street

1950

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with...

Any Number Can Play

Any Number Can Play

1949

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it diff...

To the Victor

To the Victor

1948

Writer

Writing

An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.

Key Largo

Key Largo

1948

Screenplay

7.5
Writing

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and ...

Crossfire

Crossfire

1947

Novel

6.6

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?

Brute Force

Brute Force

1947

Screenplay

7.3
Writing

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of e...

Swell Guy

Swell Guy

1946

Writer

Writing

Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature until a climatic redemption.

The Killers

The Killers

1946

Writer, Additional Writing

7.4
Writing

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Si...

Cobra Woman

Cobra Woman

1944

Screenplay

5.2
Writing

A man tracks his kidnapped bride to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.

My Best Gal

My Best Gal

1944

Story

Writing

A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.

Return to Guam

Return to Guam

1944

Director

6.0
Directing

Return to Guam is a 1944 short propaganda film produced by the US Navy about the taking and recapture of the island of Guam. The film starts when a co...

With the Marines at Tarawa

With the Marines at Tarawa

1944

Director

6.9
Directing

Documentary short film depicting the harrowing battle between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese for control of the Pacific island of Tarawa. Preserve...

White Savage

White Savage

1943

Screenplay

5.2
Writing

A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.

Don Winslow of the Coast Guard

Don Winslow of the Coast Guard

1943

Additional Dialogue

Don Winslow (titular hero of the serial "Don Winslow of the Navy") is reassigned to the United States Coast Guard, to guard the coast against saboteur...

Sin Town

Sin Town

1942

Additional Dialogue

3.0

Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves.

Men of Texas

Men of Texas

1942

Screenplay

Writing

A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.