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...after bumming around the last B-movie lot in Hollywood at 20th Century Fox (and having a bit role in the atrocious sequel to Mister Roberts, Ensign Pulver, a purported A-movie), he and director Monte Hellman took the B-unit to the Phillipines and made Back Door to Hell and Flight to Fury. The low-budget films had strictly limited aspirations, and still failed to fulfill them. So the dynamic duo turned to the latest craze, The Western; Nicholson wrote Ride the Whirlwind and Adrien Joyce penned The Shooting; filmed simultaneously on the Utah desert, neither was ever released...
Back Door to Hell (1964) d. Monte Hellman...
Flight to Fury (1964) d. Hellman...
...directing his first silent film in 1925. Though his work ranged from musicals (Funny Girl, 1968) to westerns (The Big Country, 1958), Wyler was best known for his film adaptations of such novels as Sinclair Lewis' Dodsworth (1936) and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1939), and Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes...
...have the whole story in Layman's The Shadow Man. Layman's book is the best of its kind around today, and even without the help of Lillian Hellman, he has pieced together the life in a readable, if somewhat stodgy account. It's workmanlike biography of an unworkmanlike man, with none of the flair that marked Hammett's writing and none of the hard sensibilities he made so popular. In some respects, it's not nearly as interesting as Hammett's fiction, since Hammett's Ops have more to say about the state of things in the urban steamvat...