Sydney Boehm

Screenwriter

About

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Birth Place

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Born

April 04, 1908

Died

June 25, 1990

Filmography

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Rough Night in Jericho (1967)

Shock Treatment (1964)

Seven Thieves (1960)

One Foot in Hell (1960)

Woman Obsessed (1959)

Photos & Videos

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When Worlds Collide (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Most Frightening Discovery

When Worlds Collide (1951) -- (Movie Clip) The End Of The World

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Rough Night in Jericho (1967)

Shock Treatment (1964)

Seven Thieves (1960)

One Foot in Hell (1960)

Woman Obsessed (1959)

Harry Black and the Tiger (1958)

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958)

The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)

Hell on Frisco Bay (1956)

Six Bridges to Cross (1955)

Violent Saturday (1955)

Black Tuesday (1955)

Story and Screenplay

The Tall Men (1955)

Secret of the Incas (1954)

Secret of the Incas (1954)

Rogue Cop (1954)

Siege at Red River (1954)

The Raid (1954)

The Big Heat (1953)

Second Chance (1953)

The Atomic City (1952)

The Savage (1952)

When Worlds Collide (1951)

Union Station (1950)

Side Street (1950)

Story and Screenplay

Mystery Street (1950)

The Undercover Man (1949)

Written for Screen by

High Wall (1948)

Producer (Feature Film)

Seven Thieves (1960)

One Foot in Hell (1960)

Woman Obsessed (1959)

Life Events

1947

Wrote first screenplay

Videos

When Worlds Collide (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Most Frightening Discovery Producer George Pal goes biblical with the opening, ubiquitous Paul Frees narration and Rudolph Maté directing, through a backdrop that looks like the Hale telescope at Mount Palomar, CA, described as an imaginary South African observatory, we meet Hayden Rorke (later known as Dr Bellows on TV’s I Dream Of Jeannie) as Bronson, with aides, describing grim findings, in When World’s Collide, 1951.

When Worlds Collide (1951) -- (Movie Clip) The End Of The World Playboy international courier Randall (Richard Derr) headed to New York from South Africa, handcuffed to secret scientific data he knows little about, is pleased to be collected by fetching Joyce (Barbara Rush), daughter of his recipient, John Ridgely the customs chief, James Seay the hustling reporter, in producer George Pal’s When World’s Collide, 1951.

When Worlds Collide (1951) -- (Movie Clip) The World Prays More momentous narration from Paul Frees, as world opinion has coalesced around predictions that planet Zyra, then a star, will overwhelm earth, Randall and Joyce (Richard Derr, Barbara Rush) in the control center with her scientist father (Larry Keating) and John Hoyt as the disabled unstable financier Stanton, the escape rocket ready, as producer George Pal lets loose the SFX, in When World’s Collide, 1951.

Big Heat, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Pinch Hit For Your Boy? Cop Bannion (Glenn Ford) drops in on the polished gangster Lagana (Alexander Scourby) and his hunky aide George (Chris Alcaide) to deliver a warning in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat, 1953.

Big Heat, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Your Pretty Face Famous scene in which rightly suspicious gangster Vince (Lee Marvin) freaks out and burns girlfriend Debbie (Gloria Grahame) with hot coffee, Howard Wendell as the panicked politician, Alexander Scourby the kingpin taking the call, in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat, 1953.

Big Heat, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Jersey Mosquitoes After dinner and before their date, discourse between cop Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) and spouse Katie (Jocelyn Brando, Marlon's older sister) so domestic you know something bad is coming, in Fritz Lang's film noir The Big Heat, 1953.

Big Heat, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Just Impersonations First scene for usually blonde, and now Academy Award-winner (for The Bad And The Beautiful, 1953) Gloria Grahame, as gang-moll Debby, with thug boyfriend Vince (Lee Marvin), sidekick Larry (Adam Williams) and their boss Lagana (Alexander Scourby) in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat, 1953.

Side Street (1950) -- (Movie Clip) You Got Nice Manners Now-desperate Joe (Farley Granger) is trying to get at a gangster through his boozy night-club singer ex-girlfriend Harriet (Jean Hagen), in Anthony Mann's Side Street, 1950.

Side Street (1950) -- (Movie Clip) This Is New York Continuing narration from the opening credits by Paul Kelly, who plays a cop, introducing the hero Joe (Farley Granger), with famous camera work by Joseph Ruttenberg, from Anthony Mann's Side Street, 1950.

Side Street (1950) -- (Movie Clip) That Money I Gave You... Joe (Farley Granger) sneaks into the Bellevue maternity ward to tell Ellen (Cathy O'Donnell) the bad news about the money he gave her, in Anthony Mann's Side Street, 1950.

Side Street (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Here Comes Papa Gangster George (James Craig) and henchman Larry (Harry Bellaver) wait outside the hospital to chat with new father Joe (Farley Granger) about the money he stole, in Anthony Mann's Side Street, 1950.

Undercover Man, The -- (Movie Clip) A Hundred Shots... IRS Agent Frank Warren (Glenn Ford) meets an informant in a movie theater, to arrange another meeting, in director Joseph H. Lewis' The Undercover Man< 1949.

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