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Philip Yordan

Highest Rated: 100% The Bravados (1958)

Lowest Rated: 25% The Unholy (1988)

Birthday: Apr 1, 1914

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Novelist and playwright who entered films in 1941 (working uncredited on "The Devil and Daniel Webster") and went on to script such riveting features as "House of Strangers" (1949) and "Detective Story" (1951). Yordan was also responsible for a brace of sophisticated westerns, notably "Johnny Guitar" and "Broken Lance" (both 1954) and allegedly lent his name to a number of scripts penned by blacklisted writers during the Hollywood witch-hunt.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 69% The Bravados Watchlist 100% 79% The Man From Laramie Watchlist 100% 80% The Harder They Fall Watchlist 100% 71% Day of the Outlaw Watchlist 94% 85% Johnny Guitar Watchlist 93% 78% El Cid Watchlist 93% 79% The Big Combo Watchlist 93% 68% The Fall of the Roman Empire Watchlist 88% 76% Men in War Watchlist 85% 59% Houdini Watchlist
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The Unholy 25% 44% 1988 Writer Bloody Wednesday 30% 1987 Screenwriter, Producer Cry Wilderness 6% 1987 Screenwriter, Producer Night Train to Terror 29% 1985 Screenwriter The Dark Side to Love 20% 1984 Screenwriter Savage Journey 25% 1983 Writer, Producer The Nightmare Never Ends 11% 1980 Screenwriter Bad Man's River 19% 1971 Writer Captain Apache 32% 1971 Producer, Screenwriter Custer of the West 25% 31% 1968 Producer Battle of the Bulge 63% 67% 1965 Screenwriter, Producer The Fall of the Roman Empire 93% 68% 1964 Writer King of Kings 80% 78% 1961 Screenwriter El Cid 93% 78% 1961 Screenwriter Studs Lonigan 60% 1960 Screenwriter, Producer The Bramble Bush 1960 Screenwriter Day of the Outlaw 100% 71% 1959 Screenwriter God's Little Acre 41% 1958 Screenwriter Anna Lucasta 44% 82% 1958 Screenwriter The Bravados 100% 69% 1958 Screenwriter Island Women 1958 Screenwriter Men in War 88% 76% 1957 Screenwriter No Down Payment 81% 1957 Screenwriter The Harder They Fall 100% 80% 1956 Writer, Producer The Big Combo 93% 79% 1955 Screenwriter
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