Robert Rossen

Robert Rossen

Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades. His 1949 film All the King's Men won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, while Rossen was nominated for an Oscar as Best Director. He won the Golden Globe for Best Director and the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. In 1961 he made The Hustler, which was nominated for nine Oscars and won two. Rossen was nominated as Best Director and with Sidney Carroll for Best Adapted Screenplay but did not win either award. After directing and writing for the stage in New York, Rossen moved to Hollywood in 1937. There he worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. until 1941, and then interrupted his career to serve until 1944 as the chairman of the Hollywood Writers Mobilization Against the War, a body to organize writers for the effort in World War II. In 1945 he joined a picket line against Warner Bros., making an enemy of Jack Warner. After making one film for Hal Wallis's new-formed production company, Rossen made one for Columbia Pictures, another for Wallis and most of his later films for his own companies, usually in collaboration with Columbia. Rossen was a member of the American Communist Party from 1937 to about 1947, and believed the Party was "dedicated to social causes of the sort that we as poor Jews from New York were interested in."[1] However, he finally ended all relations with the Party in 1949. Rossen was twice called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), in 1951 and in 1953. He exercised his Fifth Amendment rights at his first appearance, refusing to state whether he had ever been a Communist. As a result he was unofficially blacklisted by the Hollywood studio bosses, and he was unable to renew his passport. At his second appearance he named 57 people as current or former Communists and was removed from the unofficial blacklist. After this, he had to produce his next film, Mambo, in Italy in 1954 to repair his finances. While The Hustler in 1961 was a great success, conflict with the star of Lilith so disillusioned Rossen that he made no more films during the last three years of his life. Rossen's films for Warner generally described the conditions of working people, the portrayal of gangsters and racketeers, and opposition to fascism. He wrote that ambition and the desire for success were common themes in his work. His films often featured strong female characters. All Rossen's playscripts were adaptions except three which were based on real events. While head of production at Warner, Wallis considered that some of his best films were written by Rossen. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Rossen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Robert Rossen
  • Popularity: 2.549
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1908-03-16
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Robert Rossen Movies

  • 2002
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    The Hustler: The Inside Story

    The Hustler: The Inside Story

    1 2002 HD

    A brief overview of The Hustler's making and the players involved.

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  • 1961
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    The Hustler

    The Hustler

    7.676 1961 HD

    Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the...

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  • 1961
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    The Hustler

    The Hustler

    7.676 1961 HD

    Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the...

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  • 1961
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    The Hustler

    The Hustler

    7.676 1961 HD

    Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the...

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  • 1941
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    Blues in the Night

    Blues in the Night

    6.2 1941 HD

    A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find...

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  • 1949
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    All the King's Men

    All the King's Men

    6.9 1949 HD

    A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore...

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  • 1949
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    All the King's Men

    All the King's Men

    6.9 1949 HD

    A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore...

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  • 1946
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    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    7.1 1946 HD

    Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married....

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  • 1941
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    Out of the Fog

    Out of the Fog

    6.3 1941 HD

    A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves...

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  • 1956
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    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great

    5.9 1956 HD

    An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the...

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  • 1964
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    Lilith

    Lilith

    6.5 1964 HD

    Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he...

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  • 1957
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    Island in the Sun

    Island in the Sun

    6.5 1957 HD

    A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.

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  • 1941
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    The Sea Wolf

    The Sea Wolf

    7 1941 HD

    Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.

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  • 1945
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    A Walk in the Sun

    A Walk in the Sun

    5.7 1945 HD

    In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension...

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  • 1939
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    The Roaring Twenties

    The Roaring Twenties

    7.5 1939 HD

    After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie...

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  • 1959
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    They Came to Cordura

    They Came to Cordura

    6.5 1959 HD

    An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion...

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  • 1947
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    Body and Soul

    Body and Soul

    6.7 1947 HD

    Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters,...

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  • 1947
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    Johnny O'Clock

    Johnny O'Clock

    6.1 1947 HD

    When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave...

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  • 1947
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    Johnny O'Clock

    Johnny O'Clock

    6.1 1947 HD

    When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave...

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  • 1943
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    Edge of Darkness

    Edge of Darkness

    6.1 1943 HD

    The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living...

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  • 1954
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    Mambo

    Mambo

    5.5 1954 HD

    A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.

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  • 1951
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    The Brave Bulls

    The Brave Bulls

    5.8 1951 HD

    A matador must recover his courage after being gored in the ring.

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  • 1938
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    Racket Busters

    Racket Busters

    5.1 1938 HD

    A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

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  • 1964
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    Lilith

    Lilith

    6.5 1964 HD

    Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he...

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  • 1939
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    A Child Is Born

    A Child Is Born

    6.5 1939 HD

    A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

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  • 1956
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    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great

    5.9 1956 HD

    An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the...

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  • 1956
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    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great

    5.9 1956 HD

    An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the...

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  • 1937
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    They Won't Forget

    They Won't Forget

    5.7 1937 HD

    A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with...

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  • 1963
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    The Cool World

    The Cool World

    5.4 1963 HD

    A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to...

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  • 1947
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    Desert Fury

    Desert Fury

    6 1947 HD

    The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

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  • 1945
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    Rhapsody in Blue

    Rhapsody in Blue

    6.4 1945 HD

    Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

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  • 1937
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    Marked Woman

    Marked Woman

    6.5 1937 HD

    In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

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  • 1959
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    They Came to Cordura

    They Came to Cordura

    6.5 1959 HD

    An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion...

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  • 1949
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    The Undercover Man

    The Undercover Man

    6.2 1949 HD

    Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal...

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  • 1949
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    All the King's Men

    All the King's Men

    6.9 1949 HD

    A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore...

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  • 1939
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    Dust Be My Destiny

    Dust Be My Destiny

    6.1 1939 HD

    Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter...

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  • 1964
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    Lilith

    Lilith

    6.5 1964 HD

    Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he...

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  • 1951
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    The Brave Bulls

    The Brave Bulls

    5.8 1951 HD

    A matador must recover his courage after being gored in the ring.

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  • 1941
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    Flight from Destiny

    Flight from Destiny

    5.2 1941 HD

    After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes...

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  • 1954
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    Mambo

    Mambo

    5.5 1954 HD

    A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.

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