David Goodis

David Goodis
Total Credits at Criticker: 13 (Writer)
Titles you haven't rated - Writer (13)
Shoot the Piano Player
Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie's brothers, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest (imdb)
Descent Into Hell
The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future.
Dark Passage
Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence... (imdb)
Street of No Return
Directed by Samuel Fuller, this tense thriller tells the story of a failed pop star played by Keith Carradine. Carradine's life takes a wrong turn when he falls for a girl with gangster connections, almost resulting in his untimely demise. His life descends into amnesia, depression and anxiety, but just as he can't go any lower he begins to piece his life back together again. (RottenTomatoes.com)
Nightfall
Commercial artist James Vanning (Aldo Ray) and his friend, Dr. Edward Gurston (Frank Albertson), are on a hunting and fishing trip in Wyoming when they stop to help two men whose car has crashed. The pair, John (Brian Keith) and Red (Rudy Bond), turn out to be escaped bank robbers, on the run with 350,000 dollars in stolen cash after a clean getaway, and they don't plan on leaving any witnesses... (All Movie Guide)
The Burglar
Dan Duryea and his cronies rob a fake spiritualist and then take it on the lam to Atlantic City. (imdb)
The Moon in the Gutter
In an urban netherworld, a despondent man named Gerard roams the streets, hunting for the perpetrator who raped his sister. She later took her own life. A gallery of grotesque types populates Gerard's netherworld. He suspects a waterfront drunkard and his cherubic sister, both of whom have crucial information about the rape. But Gerard may be hiding something. (rottentomatoes.com)
The Unfaithful
Chris Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created. (imdb)
And Hope to Die
In this decidedly offbeat and rather arty crime drama, a French fugitive heads for Canada and ends up joining a gang of desperate criminals who have been plotting to kidnap a crimelord's retarded daughter. Things go well until she accidentally dies. Despite the unfortunate turn of events, the crooks decide to keep on as if things were fine. (imdb)
The Edge
The Edge (1989) - TV Movie
A three-part anthology suspense program in which men and women face life's ultimate danger zone. Each episode is introduced by a mysterious figure known as The Watcher, who arrives on the scene just as strange things being to happen -- pushing men and women in crisis over the edge and into bizarre, unexpected actions. (TCM)
Barbarous Street
Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the ... (imdb)
Fallen Angels
Anthology of noir dramas.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 1