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  Carl Foreman - Films as writer:, Films as writer and producer:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Foreman, Jonathan, "Witch-Hunt: Carl Foreman's Experience of McCarthyism and the Hollywood Blacklist,"; in Index on Censorship, November-December 1995.
Foreman's exile began in 1952 when he was fllisted and denied the producer's credit on High Noon.
Born in Illinois to Russian immigrants, Foreman attended Northwestern University and the John Marshall Law School, but left to become a newspaper reporter, public relations man for theater actors, radio writer for Bob Hope and Eddie Cantor, and eventually a writer for marginal films in Hollywood.
www.filmreference.com /Writers-and-Production-Artists-Ei-Gi/Foreman-Carl.html   (859 words)

  
  Carl Foreman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carl Foreman (July 23, 1914 – June 26, 1984) was an American screenwriter and film producer who was fllisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
Carl Foreman was the screenwriter of High Noon, a film that is seen as an allegory for McCarthyism.
Son, Jonathan Foreman has a degree in modern history from Cambridge University, a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is an editorial writer and senior film critic for the New York Post.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carl_Foreman   (919 words)

  
 Carl Foreman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Foreman remained with the Kramer Company until High Noon (1952), at which time he was threatened with fllisting due to his "hostile" testimony before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.
(Foreman took the opportunity of The Victors to reactivate his dream of adapting William Bradford Huie's book The Execution of Private Slovik for the screen; in Victors, a Slovik-like soldier is executed while the soundtrack booms forth a cheery rendition of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas").
By the time he returned to Hollywood in 1975, Carl Foreman's most creative days were behind him; typical of his final projects was a halfhearted rehash of his Guns of Navarrone triumph, 1978's Force Ten From Navarrone.
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P118574   (310 words)

  
 Carl Foreman - Biography - Moviefone
Foreman remained with the Kramer Company until High Noon (1952), at which time he was threatened with fllisting due to his "hostile" testimony before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.
(Foreman took the opportunity of The Victors to reactivate his dream of adapting William Bradford Huie's book The Execution of Private Slovik for the screen; in Victors, a Slovik-like soldier is executed while the soundtrack booms forth a cheery rendition of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas").
By the time he returned to Hollywood in 1975, Carl Foreman's most creative days were behind him; typical of his final projects was a halfhearted rehash of his Guns of Navarrone triumph, 1978's Force Ten From Navarrone.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/carl-foreman/118574/biography   (336 words)

  
 Foreman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gordy Foreman – the drummer of Frenzal Rhomb
Tim Foreman – the bassist of Switchfoot, brother of Jon
Jack Foreman Mantle – a recipient of the Victoria Cross
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foreman   (133 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents : Plot
Carl Foreman, as the hero of the piece.
Even as his film is being lauded by the critics and the public alike as a masterpiece, the politically "dangerous" Foreman cannot find work in Hollywood, and the State Department is endeavoring to seize his passport.
Chetwynd's teleplay is based upon an impassioned letter written by Foreman to influential film critic Bosley Crowther -- a desperate effort on the part of the screenwriter to state his case before the public, and, as it turns out, a futile gesture.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/216066/plot.jhtml   (244 words)

  
 The Guns of Navarone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The screenplay, adapted by producer Carl Foreman, made significant changes in virtually all of the major characters.
Lee Thompson after original director Alexander Mackendrick (best-known for the small, quirky comedies he directed for Ealing Studios) was fired by Carl Foreman due to "creative differences." The Greek island of Rhodes provided locations, and Quinn was so taken with the area that he bought land there in an area still called Anthony Quinn Bay.
Mallory, an army officer and Andrea (in the novel, he is given no surname, but in the film, he is surnamed Stavros) a Lt. Colonel in the defeated Greek army, have been fighting behind enemy lines in Crete.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Guns_of_Navarone   (1240 words)

  
 'Darkness at High Noon,' a Hollywood Story
In a testament to the staying power of the controversial list, the widow of famed liberal film producer Stanley Kramer is thinking of suing the Public Broadcasting Service for a documentary she calls ``a hatchet job'' on her late husband and his relationships with a fllisted writer of that era.
Karen Sharpe Kramer says that the documentary, ``Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents,'' scheduled to air on PBS Sept. 17, defames her husband by suggesting that he turned against partner Carl Foreman, depriving him of credit for the film ``High Noon,'' after Foreman was declared an ``uncooperative witness'' by a communist-hunting congressional committee.
Foreman and Kramer had met in the Army, and Foreman subsequently became a partner in Kramer's company.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/750250/posts   (1220 words)

  
 Kanonerna På Navarone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and David Niven are Allied saboteurs assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Blacklisted screenwriter Carl Foreman (High Noon, The Bridge On The River Kwai) was determined to re-establish both his name an credibility after spending most of the '50s working in anonymity.
Although Foreman achieved his goal, it was MacLean who would wind up the true beneficiary; his novels became the source for many high adventure screen epics, including Ice Station Zebra and Where Eagles Dare.
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 Current.org | PBS initiates followup to balance blacklist doc
Foreman was subpoenaed and later fllisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee during production of
Foreman and Kramer never spoke again, and their families continue to argue about who produced the celebrated western.
"My position is that this film is not about Stanley Kramer--it's about Carl Foreman and the fllist," said Chetwynd, who was annoyed but resigned to PBS's order for the followup program.
www.current.org /ptv/ptv0217foreman.html   (564 words)

  
 Carl Foreman Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
Carl Foreman's career seems broken into two sections--a division created by his break with the film industry during the fllisting era of the early 1950s.
Choosing to leave America for exile abroad, Foreman continued to further his screenwriting career but seemed to concentrate less on human conflict in his writing as his own conflicts grew.
His successes did not diminish during the time he went to live and work in London.
www.bookrags.com /biography/carl-foreman-dlb   (197 words)

  
 Current.org | Chetwynd's blacklist documentary, 2002
By presenting the film, PBS is neglecting its mission to present work that "provides multiple points of view" and treats "complex social issues completely," she said.
Kramer asserts that Chetwynd is pursuing a political agenda with "Darkness at High Noon." "All of the Republicans in the film come off extremely well, but the leading liberal in our industry then was Stanley, and he takes the fall for everything that went wrong for Carl Foreman," she said.
Producers used sources with direct first-person knowledge of the events in question, a criterion that disqualifies Karen Kramer as an interview subject because she married Stanley Kramer a decade later.
www.current.org /doc/doc0210foreman.html   (1151 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / Blog: On Carl Foreman
Foreman left because he had been warned that the State Department was about to lift his passport, so he hastened to get out while the going was good.
At any rate, this is what I have heard from Carl Foreman’s family, who happen to be my friends.
Foreman’s family, and a 20-page letter Foreman wrote early in his exile, suggest that High Noon changed its meaning as he worked on it.
www.americanheritage.com /rss/blog/200610_12_552.shtml   (192 words)

  
 KET - Darkness at High Noon on KET explores blacklisting of screenwriter Carl Foreman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
CT on KET, Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents looks at the Hollywood figures behind that film and draws parallels between the movie's sheriff, who stands alone against the forces of evil, and the screenwriter, the late Carl Foreman.
During production of the western, Foreman was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee and subsequently fllisted by Hollywood after refusing to testify.
The primary focus of the documentary is a letter written by Foreman to New York Times critic Bosley Crowther that attempted to explain and illuminate the circumstances surrounding the making of High Noon and his colleagues' betrayal.
www.ket.org /pressroom/2002/37/DAHN__.html   (538 words)

  
 Carl Foreman Biography and Summary
Choosing to leave America for exile abroad, Foreman continued to further his screenwriting career...
Carl Foreman(July 23, 1914 – June 26, 1984) was an American screenwriter and film producer who was fllisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
Born in Chicago, Illinois to a working-class Jewish family, he studied at the University...
www.bookrags.com /Carl_Foreman   (120 words)

  
 Carl Foreman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wrote several outstanding screenplays for producer Stanley Kramer, including HOME OF THE BRAVE (1949) and THE MEN (1950), before refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the early 1950s.
Subsequently fllisted, Foreman went to England and worked uncredited on THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957), before beginning his producing career in 1959.
Pierre Boulle and Michael Wilson) Foreman and Wilson were both fllisted at the time; they were presented their Awards in 1985.
theoscarsite.com /whoswho3/foreman_c.htm   (228 words)

  
 Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
There have been many films made about the HUAC and the fllisting time in hollywood, but this stands head and heels above the rest.
Simply put, it is Carl Foreman's own words read in his letters that express a wide range of emotion in a fl time in American history.
And of course we see the parallels of the film HIGH NOON and what was going on at the time.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0310979   (245 words)

  
 SSN 073
The next day Johnson burst into O'Grady's office where, that very morning, the Chief Foreman had collapsed, weak from hunger, and was lying on a cot.
He too had mixed feelings about Carl's intrusion and under normal circumstances would have resented and resisted it.
He was as hungry as anyone else and, in addition, he could see some potential for profit for himself in the situation that was developing.
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 gunsofnavarone
It uses studio sets to have the heroic figures do the impossible rock climbing scenes.
Under the workmanlike direction of J. Lee Thompson ("Cape Fear," 1961) from the script by producer Carl Foreman, which is based on the best-seller by Alistair MacLean, it becomes your typical crowd pleasing war film that questions wartime heroics but exploits their actions as part of its draw.
It was priceless to watch Gregory Peck struggle with trite dialogue in Greek and German.
www.sover.net /~ozus/gunsofnavarone.htm   (542 words)

  
 Carl Foreman: Screenwriters - Word into Image ★ American Film Foundation
Carl Foreman: Screenwriters - Word into Image ★ American Film Foundation
Carl Foreman, known internationally as a filmmaker, is primarily a screenwriter.
In this film, Foreman speaks candidly about being fllisted in Hollywood for being an "uncooperative" witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
www.americanfilmfoundation.com /order/carl_foreman.shtml   (105 words)

  
 Carl Foreman
Foreman refused to testify and was fllisted by the Hollywood studios.
He moved to England but continued to work under other people's names and wrote the screenplays for the Academy Award winning,
After the fllist was lifted, Foreman was able to openly work in the cinema industry.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAforeman.htm   (208 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Carl Foreman : Main
VH1.com : Movies : Person : Carl Foreman : Main
After wartime service with the Signal Corps, Foreman jo...
A heavy dose of solid rock without a hint of mellow.
www.vh1.com /movies/person/104854/personmain.jhtml   (80 words)

  
 Carl Foreman (author of the High Noon screenplay): “What High Noon was about at that time was Hollywood and no other ...
Carl Foreman (author of the High Noon screenplay): “What High Noon was about at that time was Hollywood and no other place but
Carl Foreman (author of the High Noon screenplay): “What High Noon was about at that time was
          “I’ll never regret having helped run Foreman out of the country…”
www.umsl.edu /divisions/artscience/english/faculty/grady/hnpolitics.htm   (99 words)

  
 CARL FOREMAN'S 1964 "THE VICTORS"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Shipping outside United States: Quoted at time of purchase
Description: THIS 22 X 28 HALF SHEET POSTER IS FROM THE 1964 MOVIE "THE VICTORS" STARRING VINCENT EDWARDS, ALBERT FINNEY, GEORGE HAMILTON, MELINA MERCOURI, JEANNE MOREAU, GEORGE PEPPARD, MAURICE RONET, ROSANNA SCHIAFFINO, ROMY SCHNEIDER, PETER FONDA.WRITTEN PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY CARL FOREMAN.
CONDITION IS GOOD HAS SOME LIGHT SOILING, OLD PEICES OF TAPE ALONG THE EDGES, MISSING TOP LEFT AND BOTTOM RIGHT CORNERS.
www.goantiques.com /detail,carl-foremans-1964,742718.html   (117 words)

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