Harold Pinter – The Servant; The Quiller Memorandum; Accident; The Go-Between; The Last Tycoon; The French Lieutenant’s Woman; The Handmaid’s Tale
Frederic Raphael – Darling; Two For the Road; Far From the Madding Crowd
Dean Riesner – Coogan’s Bluff; Play Misty For Me; Dirty Harry; High Plains Drifter; Charley Varrick
Robert Riskin – Lady for a Day; It Happened One Night; The Whole Town’s Talking; Mr. Deeds Goes To Town; Lost Horizon (1937); You Can’t Take It With You; Meet John Doe
William Roberts – The Magnificent Seven; The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm; The Devil’s Brigade; The Bridge at Remagen; Red Sun; The Last American Hero; Posse
Reginald Rose – Twelve Angry Men; Man of the West; Wild Geese; Sea Wolves; The Final Option
Morrie Ryskind – The Coconuts; Animal Crackers; A Night at the Opera; My Man Godfrey; Room Service; Penny Serenade
Alvin Sargent – Gambit; The Sterile Cuckoo; The Stalking Moon; Paper Moon; Julia; Straight Time; Ordinary People; Other People’s Money; Unfaithful
Speakin’ of Which, Didja Know There Was AnotherBernstein Originally Involved??? Department:
Indeed – and authorially In Deed – Walter Bernstein was the original adapter of its superlative source,
as it became Westernized into (and with sole on-screen credit to William Roberts, tho Walter Newman’s foundational contribution remains generally unheralded publically).
Still (historically speaking) he was the First-est …
Arnold Schulman – A Hole In the Head; Cimarron; Love With the Proper Stranger; The Night They Raided Minsky’s; Funny Lady; Tucker--The Man and His Dream; And the Band Played On
Loreno Semple, Jr. – Batman (1966); Fathom; Papillon; The Parallax View; King Kong (1976); Flash Gordon; Never Say Never Again
Rod Serling – Requiem for a Heavyweight; Patterns; Seven Days In May; Planet of the Apes
Robert Sherwood – The Scarlet Pimpernel; Rebecca; Abe Lincoln In Illinois; The Best Years of Our Lives; The Bishop’s Wife
Neil Simon – Barefoot In the Park; The Odd Couple; The Out-of-Towners; Plaza Suite; The Heartbreak Kid; The Sunshine Boys; Murder by Death; The Goodbye Girl
Terry Southern – Dr. Strangelove; The Cincinnati Kid; Barbarella; Easy Rider
David Ogden Stewart – Dinner at Eight; Prisoner of Zenda; Love Affair; The Philadelphia Story; Life With Father; An Affair To Remember
Tom Stoppard – Brazil; Empire of the Sun; The Russia House; Billy Bathgate; Shakespeare In Love; Enigma
Daniel Taradash – Golden Boy; Knock On Any Door; Rancho Notorious; Don’t Bother To Knock; From Here To Eternity; Picnic; Bell, Book and Candle; Hawaii
Lamar Trotti – In Old Chicago; Young Mr. Lincoln; The Ox-Bow Incident; Guadalcanal Diary; Wilson; The Razor’s Edge (1946); Captain From Castile; Cheaper By the Dozen (1950)
Calder Willingham – Paths of Glory; The Vikings; One-Eyed Jacks; The Graduate; Little Big Man; Thieves Like Us; Rambling Rose
Michael Wilson – A Place In the Sun; Friendly Persuasion; The Bridge On the River Kwai; Lawrence of Arabia; Planet of the Apes
Philip Yordan – Detective Story; Johnny Guitar; Broken Lance; The Man From Laramie; The Big Combo; The Harder They Fall; Men In War; God’s Little Acre; The Bravados; Studs Lonigan; King of Kings; El Cid; 55 Days at Peking; The Fall of the Roman Empire
Steven Zaillian – The Falcon and the Snowman; Awakenings; Searching for Bobby Fischer; Schindler’s List; Clear and Present Danger; Gangs of New York
And a few non-Hollywood screenwriters:
Tonio Guerra – L’Avventura; The Red Desert; 10th Victim; Blow-Up; Zabriskie Point; Amarcord; The Night of the Shooting Stars; Ulysses Gaze
Cesare Zavattini – Shoeshine; The Bicycle Thief; Umberto D; Two Women; The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Arnold Schulman – A Hole In the Head; Cimarron; Love With the Proper Stranger; The Night They Raided Minsky’s; Funny Lady; Tucker--The Man and His Dream; And the Band Played On
Loreno Semple, Jr. – Batman (1966); Fathom; Papillon; The Parallax View; King Kong (1976); Flash Gordon; Never Say Never Again
Rod Serling – Requiem for a Heavyweight; Patterns; Seven Days In May; Planet of the Apes
Robert Sherwood – The Scarlet Pimpernel; Rebecca; Abe Lincoln In Illinois; The Best Years of Our Lives; The Bishop’s Wife
Did Serling write the script for the film adaptation of "The Rack"?
Rod Serling – Requiem for a Heavyweight; Patterns; Seven Days In May; Planet of the Apes
Did Serling write the script for the film adaptation of "The Rack"?
No. Stewart Stern wrote the screenplay for "The Rack," based upon Serling's teleplay. Stern also wrote the screenplays for "Rebel Without a Cause;" "The Ugly American" (1963); Rachel, Rachel; and "Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams," among others.
Before writing his first screenplay, Stern was the dialogue director on such late-1940s films noir as "T-Men," He Walked By Night," and "Railroaded!".
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