Philip Yordan

Philip Yordan

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 46 (Writer)

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    Johnny Guitar
    Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through... (imdb)
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    Houdini
    A romanticized version of the life and times of the legendary escape artist , Harry Houdini. Chronicles his early beginnings in show business as a dime museum performer, to his ultimate (and inaccurate) death on stage in the Chinese Water Torture Cell (imdb)
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    Studs Lonigan
    A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago. (imdb)
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    El Cid
    Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain. (imdb)
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    The Man from Laramie
    Mysterious Will Lockhart delivers supplies to storekeeper Barbara Waggoman at Coronado, an isolated town in Apache country. Before long, he's tangled with Dave Waggoman, vicious son of autocratic rancher Alec and cousin of sweet Barbara. But he sticks around town, his presence a catalyst for changes in people's lives, searching for someone he doesn't know...who's been selling rifles to the Apaches. (imdb)
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    King of Kings
    When the Romans under General Pompey conquer Judea in 63 BC, an era of despair and fear begins for the Jewish people. In the trials and persecutions that the Jews suffer under the Romans and under King Herod, they take hope in the promise that the Messiah someday would come... (imdb)
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    The Fall of the Roman Empire
    Action-packed look at the beginnings of the fall of the Roman Empire. Here is the glory, the greed and grandeur that was Rome. Here is the story of personal lust for power, and the shattering effects of that power's loss. Here is the tale of the plight of a people living on the brink of a political abyss.
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    The Bravados
    Jim Douglas has been relentlessly pursuing the four outlaws who murdered his wife, but finds them in jail about to be hanged. While he waits to witness their execution, they escape; and the townspeople enlist Douglas' aid to recapture them. (imdb)
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    The Big Combo
    Police Lt. Diamond is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown because it's costing the department too much money with no results. Diamond makes one last attempt to uncover evidence against Brown by going to Brown's girlfriend, Susan Lowell. (imdb)
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    The Harder They Fall
    Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protege, an unknown Argentinian named Toro Moreno... (imdb)
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    Dillinger
    The rise of John Dillinger from petty criminal (including, unforgiveably, holding up a cinema) via prison and bank robbery with his new convict associates to the accolade of Public Enemy Number One. (imdb)
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    Edge of Doom
    A mentally unbalanced young man kills a priest. One of the priest's colleagues sets out to find the killer. (imdb)
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    Whistle Stop
    Beautiful Mary returns to her small hometown after many years from Chicago wearing a mink coat and carrying an expensive cigarette case. Her arrival causes long standing enmities to surface between two of her old boyfriends, Kenny Veech, a loafing gambler, and debonair Lew Lentz, owner of a local nightclub... (imdb)
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    Cataclysm
    A sadistic demon spends his time either finding people willing to join him or killing the people who won't. (Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever)
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    Blowing Wild
    An oilman has trouble with bandits while drilling in Mexico, and meanwhile also has trouble with an old friend's wife.
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    55 Days at Peking
    Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals. (imdb)
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    Broken Lance
    Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge. (imdb)
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    God\
    A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. To find it he conveniently moves a marker out of his way that designates the land on which it rests as as God's Little Acre, where anything that comes from the ground will go to God's work. Eventually he abducts an albino to help him find the gold. (imdb)
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    Men in War
    Circumstance throws together Lieutenant Benson and his platoon with Sergeant Montana and the shell-shocked colonel in his keep during the Korean War. The group must make it fifteen miles through enemy territory in hopes of finding friendly ground on Hill 465.
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    House of Strangers
    Max Monetti is consumed with vengeance against his brothers after their betrayal of his father Gino. But after remembering his past, especially his relationship with Irene Bennett, Max realizes that his father had caused all the tension within the family and makes peace with his brothers. (imdb)
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    Day of the Outlaw
    Cowboys and ranchers have to put their differences aside when a gang of outlaws, led by army captain Jack Bruhn, decide to spend the night in a little Western town. (imdb)
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    The Last Frontier
    A backwoodsman signs on as scout for a remote Army fort. (TCM.com)
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    Bloody Wednesday
    Meet Harry. He proves that he's a nut by attending church in the nude, then he becomes more nuts as the film progresses.
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    The Chase
    Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare. (imdb)
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    Suspense
    The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. (imdb)
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    Betrayed
    A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer. (imdb)
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    Bad Man\
    Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars. (imdb)
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    Anna Lucasta
    A reformed streetwalker falls in love with the man her family wants her to fleece. (TCM.com)
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    The Unholy
    In New Orleans, a series of horrific murders of priests are occurring around the city's Catholic churches. The diocese calls in Father Michael to fight the powerful demon, known as Daesidarius, or The Unholy. The Father's faith is tested almost to the breaking point as the demon - disguised as a stunningly beautiful lady - attempts to seduce Father Michael into breaking his vows. Father Michael soon learns how the Unholy works. (imdb)
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    Mara Maru
    An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.
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    The Black Book
    The plot starts in France in the year 1794. Robespierre is sowing panic among his opponents with the only reason to take over the power of the state. (imdb)
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    Captain Apache
    A Native American born US Army officer, Captain Apache, investigating a murder, uncovers a presidential assassination plot. (imdb)
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    Drums in the Deep South
    Best friends Clay Clayburn and Will Denning graduate from West Point only to soon find themselves fighting on opposite sides of the Civil War. When the two men meet each other in combat, neither knows it as each is in an artillery position hundreds of yards from the other. However, the love of Clay's life, Kathy Summers, does know and tries desperately to save her two good friends from killing each other. (imdb)
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    The Royal Hunt of the Sun
    The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect develops between captive and captor. (imdb)
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    No Down Payment
    The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin. (imdb)
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    Cry Wilderness
    A Bigfoot-type creature befriends a college student. His father thinks it's an escaped tiger and sets out to capture it. (imdb)
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    Gun Glory
    A gunfighter defends his town when cattlemen threaten to destroy it by stampeding cattle through the farmlands. (imdb)
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    Night Train to Terror
    God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane asylum with some very interesting treatment plans. Another involves a 'death club'. The final story shows us the adventures of a server of Satan. This is a strange movie. (imdb)
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    Mutiny
    Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge, a cashiered former British Navy captain. Waldridge brings his former gun crew...who begin plotting mutiny as soon as they learn there'll be gold aboard. The gold duly arrives, and with it Waldridge's former sweetheart Leslie, who's fond of a bit of gold herself. Which side is Waldridge really on? (IMBb)
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    Carnival of Fools
    Pre-medical student Glen Marshall falls head-over-heels for Gretta, a blue-movie actress who plays piano at a tawdry night club. Gretta leads Glen into a nether-world of bizarre characters, including a group of rich patrons whose desires are not only quirky but dangerous. Bored and jaded by all of life's sensualities, they play their own imaginative versions of Russian roulette, seeking their final rush of adrenaline...death! (imdb)
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    Johnny Doesn\
    A young girl rents an apartment from a man who has recently enlisted in the Marines. The trouble is that he's given out keys to a half-dozen of his friends, and they all keep dropping in. (imdb)
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    Anna Lucasta
    A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in the process. (imdb)
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    Syncopation
    Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie)from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock-market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance between singer Kit Latimer, from New Orleans, and Johnny Schumacher, in which they share and argue over musical ideas ensues. (imdb)
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    Bad Men of Tombstone
    A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own. (imdb)
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    Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars
    When a horrible car accident kills his new bride, Harry seeks the help of a sexy psychiatrist at the Pinewood Sanitarium. Dr. Fargo performs a series of intense shock therapy sessions and drug treatment and turns him into a brainwashed kidnapper! Gorgeous women are lured to this awful private hospital of sinister doctors and dangerous orderlies, turned into brainless beauties and sold for profit. When Harry finds himself falling for one of his potential victims, the doctors plot to destroy him! (back of VHS box)
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    The Unknown Guest
    Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear. (imdb)
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