Daniel Mainwaring: Remembering a genre-defining screenwriter
How often does a screenwriter get to script a genre-defining piece? And how often does that happen to the same one writer in two different genres?
Well, it did happen and the screenwriter, Daniel Mainwaring (1902-1977), is pretty much forgotten today. Which two genre-defining movies, you may ask? He’s responsible for the novel and adaptation of film noir classic Out of the Past (written under the pseudonym Geoffrey Homes and remade in 1984 as Against All Odds) and the sci-fi classic Invasion of th…
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