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Veiller was born on 23 June 1903 in New York City to playwright and screenwriter Bayard Veiller and English-born actress Margaret Wycherly. He moved to Hollywood in 1930. [1] Veiller was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. In 1937, he co-wrote (with Morrie Ryskind) the screenplay for Stage Door, starring Katharine Hepburn ...
- 1934–1964
- June 23, 1903, New York, New York, U.S.
Nov 9, 2020 · And it’s a breathtaking visual feat. That it’s all three at the same time solidifies what a stone-cold classic it is. 9 out of 10. The Killers (1946, USA) Directed by Robert Siodmak; written by Anthony Veiller and Richard Brooks & John Huston (uncredited), based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway; starring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner ...
- Aren Bergstrom
Feb 1, 2008 · Siodmak was certainly aided by a first-rate cast and crew. Anthony Veiller gets the writing credit but was helped by Richard Brooks and John Huston. The final draft, Siodmak claims, was written solely by Huston (who had wanted to direct as well), but he remained uncredited as he was under contract at Warner Bros.
May 1, 2018 · Siodmak and his team of writers—Richard Brooks, Anthony Veiller, and John Huston—saw an opportunity to not just adapt an already-absorbing story of vengeance and resignation to fate. Rather, they saw The Killers as the beginning to a larger, untold story. Had they detained themselves to the single setting of the original story, it is ...
The Killers is a 1946 American film noir starring Burt Lancaster (in his film debut), Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, and Sam Levene.Based in part on the 1927 short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway, it focuses on an insurance detective's investigation into the execution by two professional killers of a former boxer who was unresistant to his own murder.
- $2.5 million (US rentals)
- Miklós Rózsa
- August 30, 1946
- Mark Hellinger
The characters' quickfire exchange of dialogue resembles something that Tarantino or the Coen brothers would have written decades later, only better, because screenwriter Anthony Veiller (with Richard Brooks and John Huston) reproduces the conversation from Hemingway's short story almost verbatim.
The screenwriting career of Anthony Veiller reached its peak near the end of his career. Indeed, his final two screenplays, both for the director John Huston, probably represent his best known and best crafted: The List of Adrian Messenger and The Night of the Iguana . But Veiller did have a long and fruitful career prior to these two successes ...
