John Twist

Screenwriter

About

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Also Known As

John Stuart Twist

Birth Place

Albany, Missouri, USA

Born

July 14, 1898

Filmography

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None but the Brave (1965)

A Distant Trumpet (1964)

Marines, Let's Go! (1961)

The FBI Story (1959)

The Deep Six (1958)

Band of Angels (1957)

Photos & Videos

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Serenade (1956) -- (Movie Clip) La Danza

Bombardier (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Open, To Fit Him For His Task

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

None but the Brave (1965)

A Distant Trumpet (1964)

Marines, Let's Go! (1961)

The FBI Story (1959)

The Deep Six (1958)

Band of Angels (1957)

Helen of Troy (1956)

Santiago (1956)

Serenade (1956)

The Sea Chase (1955)

King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)

The Man Behind the Gun (1953)

The Big Trees (1952)

Operation Secret (1952)

Fort Worth (1951)

Best of the Badmen (1951)

Colorado Territory (1949)

Sinbad the Sailor (1947)

Sinbad the Sailor (1947)

Bombardier (1943)

Bombardier (1943)

Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)

Powder Town (1942)

Contr to Screenplay

Army Surgeon (1942)

Pittsburgh (1942)

Additional Dialogue

The Navy Comes Through (1942)

Parachute Battalion (1941)

Original Screenplay

Too Many Girls (1940)

Men Against the Sky (1940)

Twelve Crowded Hours (1939)

The Saint Strikes Back (1939)

The Great Man Votes (1939)

Three Sons (1939)

Pacific Liner (1939)

The Law West of Tombstone (1938)

Next Time I Marry (1938)

Annapolis Salute (1937)

The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937)

We Who Are About to Die (1937)

Sea Devils (1937)

Flight from Glory (1937)

Hitting a New High (1937)

The Toast of New York (1937)

Sea Devils (1937)

The Last Outlaw (1936)

Wanted! Jane Turner (1936)

Wanted! Jane Turner (1936)

Yellow Dust (1936)

Two in Revolt (1936)

Contr to Screenplay const

Grand Old Girl (1935)

Annie Oakley (1935)

Another Face (1935)

A Dog of Flanders (1935)

Contr to Screenplay const

West of the Pecos (1935)

His Family Tree (1935)

Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)

Contr to Screenplay const

Red Morning (1934)

Little Women (1933)

Contract Writer

The Yellowback (1929)

The Pinto Kid (1928)

The Slingshot Kid (1927)

Producer (Feature Film)

Esther and the King (1960)

Associate Producer

Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)

Music (Feature Film)

King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)

Writer (Short)

La Cucaracha (1934)

Life Events

Videos

Serenade (1956) -- (Movie Clip) La Danza Harry Bellaver as Tonio with Mario Lanza (as Damon) in a Northern California vineyard and he's secured an audition in San Francisco, prompting a performance of a famous patter song by Puccini, Dominic Frontiere the credited accordion player, lively direction by Anthony Mann, early in Lanza's last Hollywood feature, from Warner Bros., Serenade, 1956.

Bombardier (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Open, To Fit Him For His Task Three years between the start of production and release, during which time the U.S. entered WWII, RKO’s muscular opening to Bombardier, 1943, with the real General Eugene Lowry Eubank (1892-1997!), and a high level disagreement between Army Air Force officers and leading men Pat O’Brien and Randolph Scott.

Bombardier (1943) -- (Movie Clip) I Do Solemnly Swear In an early role which earned him praise and career support from Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan as trainee Joe Connors consults with Pat as his superior and buddy Major “Chick” Davis about motivations and reveals that he’s been approached by probable spies at their New Mexico air base, in Bombardier, 1943.

Bombardier (1943) -- (Movie Clip) You Look Scared Stiff Part of a series of impressive technical sequences, Russell Wade as Army Air Force trainee Harris, leading man Pat O’Brien narrating, Charles Russell the instructor, Randolph Scott in the cockpit, Academy Award-nominated Special Effects by Vernon L. Walker, editing by Robert Wise (assisted by young Robert Aldrich), in RKO’s Bombardier, 1943.

Bombardier (1943) -- (Movie Clip) It's Just As Unlogical Randolph Scott as Army Air Force Captain Buck Oliver, a reluctant convert to high-altitude bombing, dictates a letter to old friend “Burt” (Anne Shirley) in New Mexico, advising her that his colleague Major “Chick” Davis will arrive soon to launch a training program, Barton MacLane his sergeant Dixon, in Bombardier, 1943.

Sea Chase, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Against The New Regime Days before their countries are expected to go to war, British officer Napier (David Farrar) brings his German fiancee' Elsa (Lana Turner) to meet his old family friend, also-German Captain Ehrlich (John Wayne), a former naval officer who refused to become a Nazi, on his freighter docked at Sydney, in The Sea Chase, 1955.

Sea Chase, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Muster All Hands Departing Sydney, Australia, just after the declaration of WWII, anti-Nazi German freighter captain Ehrlich (John Wayne) instructs his crew on avoiding British patrols, then tells Elsa (Lana Turner), an old acquaintance and Nazi spy whom he's been ordered to transport, to stay out of sight, in The Sea Chase, 1955.

Sea Chase, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) No Daydreaming Moored off a South Pacific island to collect wood to fuel their way to Chile, German steamer officers Kirchner and Schmidt (Lyle Bettger, John Qualen) are interrupted by captain Ehrlich (John Wayne), who has special instructions regarding their sexy spy passenger (Lana Turner), who is in turn impressed by his consideration for old soldier Schmidt (Paul Fix), in The Sea Chase, 1955.

Great Man Votes, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Your Liquor Or My Lucre 27-year old Garson Kanin directs John Barrymore, then 52, whom he fought to get in the role, with Luis Alberni, who’s not really the milkman, with a brief appearance by second-billed MGM child star Virginia Weidler, on loan to RKO, opening The Great Man Votes, 1939.

Great Man Votes, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Pop's Only Speaking Metagorical Our first scene in the Vance the household, where John Barrymore is “Pop,” , a usually drunk but apparently erudite night watchman in a nameless Prohibition-era city, and Peter Holden and Virginia Weidler are introduced as his precocious children, in The Great Man Votes, 1939, directed by Garson Kanin.

Great Man Votes, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) The Color Of Thy Giblets! We?re still figuring out the background of ?Pop? Vance (John Barrymore), a drunken, widowed and brainy night watchman, whose son and daughter have gotten into some scrapes at school, when their teacher (Katharine Alexander as Miss Billow) visits, revealing new angles, in RKO?s The Great Man Votes, 1939, directed by Garson Kanin.

King Richard And The Crusaders -- (Movie Clip) That Wailing She-Cat Wounded but improving in Palestine, Richard (George Sanders) visited by his wife (Paula Raymond) and conferring with spunky cousin Edith Plantagenet (Virginia Mayo), about plans for an excursion, and a knight who's turned her head, in King Richard And The Crusaders, 1954.

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