Evan Hunter (né Salvatore Albert Lombino; known as Ed McBain until 1952; October 15, 1926 - July 6, 2005) was an American author and screenwriter. He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, and Richard Marsten, amongst others. He is best known for writing the screenplay for THE BIRDS (1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock.
Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.
Release Date1982-05-04
Charactersd Self (Ed McBain)
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of the most influential and studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Release Date2021-05-02
Charactersd Self
Vote Count20
This hour long documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" incorporates the usual melange of contemporary interviews with surviving participants and liberal helpings of film clips and production shots. It also presents a nice selection of script pages and memos as well. In the former category we find cast members 'Tippi' Hedren, Diane Baker, and Louise Latham, rejected screenwriters Joseph Stefano and Evan Hunter, final screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, production designer Robert Boyle, makeup artist Howard Smit, unit manager Hilton Green, Hitchcock historian Robin Wood, composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven C. Smith, and Hitchcock fan/filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. An entertaining account of the film's production, the participants offer loads of valuable information and anecdotes. Highly enjoyable for Hitchcock fans and the film's growing number of admirers.
Release Date2000-05-30
Charactersd Self
Vote Count5
A wonderfully informative 80-minute documentary combining current interviews with archival materials and scenes from the film. Hitchcock's daughter Pat, production designer Robert Boyle, screenwriter Evan Hunter, matte artist Albert Whitlock's colleagues Syd Dutton and Bill Taylor, storyboard artist Harold Michelson, Hitchcock collaborator Hilton Green, actors Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright and Rod Taylor, filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, author Robin Wood, makeup artist Howard Smit, and composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven Smith all contribute valuable input to Hitchcock's memorable classic.
Release Date2000-05-28
Charactersd Self
Vote Count12
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
Release Date1971-09-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count753
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
Release Date1967-03-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count64
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
Release Date1963-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
Release Date2025-08-14
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The episodes, although filmed in color, mimicked what had been done by Hollywood filmmakers during the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s in terms of tone, look, and story content.
Release Date1993-08-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Episode Count1
Vote Count11
87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper, which aired on NBC on Monday evenings during the 1961–1962 television season.
Release Date1961-09-25
DepartmentCrew
JobCreator
Episode Count30
Vote Count4
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Release Date1955-10-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count238
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
Release Date1963-03-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count4251
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.
Release Date1963-03-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1010
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
Release Date1955-03-25
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count151
Five-year-old Anne Sachs was playing with her Treperenda doll in her room when she heard a scream from the next room. Someone had hurt her mother. Unbeknownst to the girl, she had become a witness to a murder. Detective Steve Carella is on the trail of the perpetrator, but at a crucial moment he falls into a trap. Mayer and his rebellious assistant Bert Kling take over the investigation. Both must explain Carella's disappearance and find out who killed Karin Sachs and why. Her ex-husband Denis, little Anne's father, is scrupulously keeping the couple's troubled past a secret.
Release Date1981-03-14
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
Release Date1972-07-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count43
Teleplay based on the story of the same name by Evan Hunter. The traveling salesman Jerr Talbot joins the publishing house "The Bible For Home". Publisher Matthews comes up with dishonest tricks to sell the Bible for maximum profit.
Release Date1972-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Once she'd been a dancer. Now she lies on a sidewalk, her blood seeping into the snow. The detectives of the 87th precinct are learning about ice: in a mulitimillion dollar showbiz scam, in the glittering diamonds that spill out of a dead man's vest, in the veins of a small time pusher. As the detectives scramble for evidence, as the city shivers, a killer is one step ahead, and the heat is still on.
Release Date1996-02-18
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count3
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
Release Date1966-07-15
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count13
The Chisholms is a CBS western miniseries starring Robert Preston, which aired from March 29, 1979, to April 19, 1979; and continued as a television series from January 19, 1980, to March 15, 1980. The 1979 miniseries showed the family moving from Virginia to Wyoming. When the TV series commenced in 1980, the pioneers were shown en route along the California Trail from Wyoming to Sacramento, California.
Release Date1979-03-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count4
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
Release Date1961-05-24
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count34
At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demanded is near the amount Gondo has raised for a critical business deal. Gondo is prepared to pay the ransom - that is, until he learns that the kidnappers have mistakenly abducted not Gondo's son, but the child of Gondo's chauffeur. Now Gondo must decide whether the other man's child is equally worth saving.
Release Date2007-09-08
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
Haridas Choudhury, a wealthy and honest shoe company owner, faces a moral dilemma when his Chauffeur's son (Bansi) is mistakenly kidnapped instead of his son. Inspector Amar is assigned to the case and while the search for Bansi is on-going Haridas is losing control of his company.
Release Date1977-11-07
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count4
Based on Ed McBain's "87th Precinct" series. The drama series is set in Tsukishima, a popular town near downtown Tokyo, and is composed of content that incorporates the storyline of the original work while also incorporating current events and social issues in Japan.
Release Date1992-10-13
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count10
A detective investigating the murder of a heroin addict discovers that there is a connection between the junkie and his fiance, who is his boss' daughter.
Release Date1960-02-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count6
A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
Release Date1960-06-29
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count41
A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.
Release Date1981-10-10
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Release Date1969-06-10
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count41
A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.
Release Date1958-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count9
An Englishwoman turns nanny and kidnaps the son of an Italian gangster who took over her dancing school.
Release Date1972-06-14
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
Release Date1971-09-15
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count62
A remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror film about a flock of birds that take over a quiet Northern California town.
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to fight against a tenacious district attorney, and evidence connected to the man's wife.
Release Date2001-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count5
Members of the 87th Precinct search for a cop killer who has already murdered two of their own.
Release Date1958-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count16
A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.
Release Date1979-06-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
Release Date1978-02-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count25
In New York two detectives of the 87th precinct are initially baffled by the brutal, ritualistic slayings of several young women. Through good detective work and clues left at the crime scenes by the psychopathic killer, they are able to deduce who the killer's next victim will be. A tense chase ensues as they try to prevent him from continuing his bloody rampage
Release Date1995-03-19
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count8
Walks Far Woman is a an Indigenous woman of the Blackfoot tribe. She takes revenge on two men who killed her husband and then she is ostracized by her tribe. She then is adopted by the Sioux, the tribe of her mother, and there she tries to start a new life.
Release Date1980-08-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count12
The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine...
Release Date1963-06-12
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
Release Date1971-02-10
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count29
Release Date2022-09-04
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count1
When Phil D'Amato takes a call from a lady physicist about her missing husband, he has no idea that her life, his life, and every other scientist working on a top-secret time travel project will soon be in dire jeopardy. As the number of dead begins to mount, D'Amato starts to realize that the suspect is not any one person or group but something much more sinister and dangerous.
Release Date2013-11-13
