Top Ten Contributors - Cry Danger (1951)
by milam_ogden | created - 02 Dec 2014 | updated - 02 Dec 2014 | PublicThis is one of better film noirs that I have in my collection. It has a good cast and receives a 7.3 rating within the IMDb. Here are the top ten collaborators that brought this film to the big screen.
1. Jerome Cady
Writer | Call Northside 777
Jerome Cady was born on August 15, 1903 in Cabell County, West Virginia, USA. He was a writer, known for Call Northside 777 (1948), Wing and a Prayer (1944) and Five Came Back (1939). He died on November 7, 1948 in Avalon, California, USA.
wrote the original story
2. Robert Parrish
Director | Casino Royale
Robert Parrish was an Academy Award-winning film editor who also directed and acted in movies. As a child he appeared in films during the early 1930s, such as City Lights (1931) by Charles Chaplin and Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). As an editor he won an Academy Award for ...
asked by Olympic Productions to direct
3. William Bowers
Writer | The Gunfighter
William Bowers was born on January 17, 1916 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Gunfighter (1950), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) and The Godfather Part II (1974). He was married to Marjorie Bowers. He died on March 27, 1987 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, ...
wrote the screenplay
4. Emil Newman
Music_department | Laura
Emil Newman was born on January 20, 1911 in Connecticut, USA. He was a composer, known for Laura (1944), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and Lifeboat (1944). He was married to Eve Farrell. He died on August 30, 1984 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
provided music along with Paul Dunlap
5. Joseph F. Biroc
Camera_department | The Towering Inferno
Joseph Biroc was destined to become one of the most versatile cinematographers in Hollywood, working on films of almost every genre. He started as a lab assistant in 1918, based at Paragon Studio, located in America's first 'film capital', Ft.Lee, New Jersey. From there, he moved on to the ...
director of photography
6. Dick Powell
Actor | Murder, My Sweet
Few actors ever managed a complete image transition as thoroughly as did Dick Powell: in his case, from the boyish, wavy-haired crooner in musicals to rugged crime fighters in film noirs. Powell grew up in the town of Little Rock, Arkansas, one of three brothers (one of them, Howard, ended up as ...
plays Rocky Malone, ex-convict
7. Rhonda Fleming
Actress | Out of the Past
A native-born Californian, Rhonda Fleming attended Beverly Hills public and private schools. Her father was Harold Cheverton Louis (1896-1951). Her mother, Effie Olivia Graham (1891-1985), was a famous model and actress in New York. She has a son (Kent Lane), two granddaughters (Kimberly and Kelly)...
plays Nancy, love interest to Powell
8. Richard Erdman
Actor | Stalag 17
Character actor John Richard Erdmann was born on June 1, 1925 in Enid, Oklahoma, of Dutch descent. Raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Erdman and his single mother moved to Los Angeles, California in 1941 after his high school drama teacher told him he could make it in movies. Richard ...
plays Delong who is friend to Rocky but betrays that friendship
9. Regis Toomey
Actor | The Big Sleep
Pittsburgh-born and -raised character actor Regis Toomey, of Irish descent, took an early interest in the performing arts and initially studied drama at the university of his home town. One of four children of Francis X. and Mary Ellen Toomey, John Regis Toomey initially pondered a law career, but ...
plays a policeman - Cobb
10. William Conrad
Actor | Cannon
William Conrad became a television star relatively late in his career. In fact, the former Army Air Corps World War II fighter pilot began his screen career playing heavies. He was Max, one of The Killers (1946) hired to finish off Burt Lancaster in his dingy lodgings. He was the corrupt state ...
plays Castro, small-time crook
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