Word: ranald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard, high-strung little novels twelve years ago, it struck many screen-wise readers that he was putting on paper a kind of movie that Hollywood would never dare put on celluloid. Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder sensationally proved how wrong that was, two years ago, with Double Indemnity, Ranald Mac-Dougall, Catherine Turney and Michael Curtiz followed up last year with Mildred Pierce, less expert yet crudely exciting. But the screen version of The Postman Always Rings Twice, the first, most ferocious and in some ways best of Cain's novels, suggests that the vein is running...
Such examples of plain commonsense and good storytelling may be credited in part to the script (by Ranald Mac Dougall and Lester Cole), with its careful attention to such matters as insect bites, the yells of jungle birds, the setting of a grenade trap, the use of plasma and salt and atabrine tablets. But still more credit goes to the veteran director, Raoul Walsh. Objective, Burma! gets pretty long, and you can seldom forget that its soldiers are really just actors; but within the limits possible to fictional war movies, it is about as good as they come...
Drama: CBS's The Man Behind the Gun (TIME, March 8) and its team of Writer Ranald R. MacDougall and Producer-Director William N. Robson, for intensifying "our appreciation of what the men in action are up against...
Since 1935, slender, slow-grinning Ranald MacDougall has believed he could write with the best of them. In The Twenty-Second Letter...
Author of The Twenty-Second Letter is CBS's most promising young dramatist, 27-year-old Ranald R. MacDougall. A former Western Union messenger, Florida fisherman (for food, not fun) and Radio City Music Hall usher, MacDougall started writing continuity for NBC in 1936, also did documentary programs on Americana for BBC. Free-lancing since last March, he persuaded Norman Corwin to let him write two This Is War programs. Then CBS signed...