Paul Monash (Writing)
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Works
Carrie
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.
Release Date: 2002-11-04
Department: Production
Job: Consulting Producer
Vote Count: 494
The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find themselves drawn into a strange case when their young informant is found murdered. The victim's mother soon appears with his life savings totally $4.30, Wolfe's fee for taking the case! Archie's fancy legwork brings Wolfe to a mysterious woman with golden spider earrings. And when everyone else investigating the matter hits a dead end, only the inimitable Wolfe can get to the bottom of the crime.
Release Date: 2000-03-05
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Vote Count: 7
The Rage: Carrie 2
Following the suicide of her only friend, outcast teen Rachel Lang's life begins a downward spiral that will not only affect her but take everyone around her down in horrifying fashion.
Release Date: 1999-03-12
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 408
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples
Two fact-based tales about citizens who risked everything, including their lives, to save Holocaust victims.
Release Date: 1998-05-10
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
George Wallace
George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it; Sinise and Mare Winningham also won Emmies for their performances. The film was based on the 1996 biography Wallace : The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace by Marshall Frady, who also co-wrote the teleplay. Frankenheimer's film was highly praised by critics: in addition to the Emmy awards, it received the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries/Motion Picture made for TV. Angelina Jolie also received a Golden Globe for her performance as Wallace's second wife, Cornelia.
Release Date: 1997-08-24
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 15
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
A Louisiana governor becomes a controversial political kingpin during the Depression.
Release Date: 1995-03-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 4
Killer Rules
Two adoptive brothers -- one a mob hit man, the other a Department of Justice investigator -- who are unaware of each other's existence until they become involved with the same woman, end up in a deadly triangle in this thriller.
Release Date: 1993-01-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Stalin
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
Release Date: 1992-11-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 34
Big Trouble in Little China
Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.
Release Date: 1986-05-30
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 3057
V
Once again, Earth is the battleground. But now the aliens whose human guise hides their true reptilian natures are wiser. They believe the secret to their survival on Earth lies in the DNA of the newly born half-human, half-spaceling Starchild. But that's something the world's Resistance Fighters cannot allow.
Release Date: 1984-10-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 145
Child Bride of Short Creek
A dramatization of the true account of a fundamentalist sect in Arizona that practices polygamy, and a returning Korean War veteran's rebellion against his father when he learns that the latter plans to increase his stable of wives by adding the 15-year-old girl with whom his son is romantically involved.
Release Date: 1981-12-07
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 8
The Day the Loving Stopped
Due to her parents' divorce, a young lady named Judy begins to doubt herself and love in general as her wedding day approaches.
Release Date: 1981-10-16
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Salem's Lot
Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.
Release Date: 1979-11-17
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 470
All Quiet on the Western Front
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.
Release Date: 1979-11-14
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 195
Murder in Peyton Place
A former resident of the town of Peyton Place, now wealthy and powerful, secretly returns to the town and sets in motion a spate of killings designed as revenge for past wrongs.
Release Date: 1977-10-03
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 1
Carrie
Withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers.
Release Date: 1976-11-03
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 3914
The Trial of Chaplain Jensen
Based on a true story, this film tells the story of Chaplain Andrew Jensen, the only U.S. navy chaplain ever court-martialed on charges of adultery.
Release Date: 1975-02-11
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 2
The Front Page
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
Release Date: 1974-11-01
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 346
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.
Release Date: 1973-06-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 185
Slaughterhouse-Five
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
Release Date: 1972-03-15
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 227
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.
Release Date: 1969-09-23
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 2227
Deadfall
Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.
Release Date: 1968-09-11
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 27
Judd for the Defense
High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.
Release Date: 1967-09-08
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
Peyton Place
Like the novel and film of the same name, this nighttime soap opera is set in the small New England town of Peyton Place, whose quaint charm masks a complicated web of extramarital affairs, shady business deals, scandals, even murder.
Release Date: 1964-09-15
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 517
Vote Count: 7
Cain's Hundred
A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice.
Release Date: 1961-09-19
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 3
The Lawbreakers
The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner 's efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and police department.
Release Date: 1961-08-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 4
The Asphalt Jungle
Police adventure series set in a modern American metropolis, concerning the problems of a special police group formed to fight high echelon crime. The series is a TV projection of the 1950 MGM motion picture based on the novel of the same title by W. R. Burnett.
Release Date: 1961-04-02
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
The Crimebusters
Government agents hunt America's most dangerous crooks. Based on the "Cain's Hundred" TV series.
Release Date: 1961-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
The Untouchables
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
Release Date: 1959-10-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 118
The Scarface Mob
Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s' Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.
Release Date: 1959-04-19
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 7
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
Release Date: 1958-10-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 4
Behind Closed Doors
Behind Closed Doors is an American drama series set during the Cold War hosted by and occasionally starring Bruce Gordon in the role of Commander Matson. The series, which aired on NBC from October 2, 1958, to April 9, 1959, focuses, among other themes, on how the former Soviet Union stole American missile secrets and proposes steps to prevent further espionage. Behind Closed Doors is based on the files and experiences of Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who offers comments at the end of each segment. Behind Closed Doors, a Screen Gems production, replaced Jackie Cooper's sitcom The People's Choice, followed the NBC quiz show, Twenty-One, and preceded the The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. Its competition was The Pat Boone Chevy Show on ABC and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater western anthology series on CBS.
Release Date: 1958-10-02
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
The Gun Runners
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.
Release Date: 1958-08-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 17
Nightmare at Ground Zero
After the first atom bomb test, scientists realize the bomb was more powerful than they expected - which may have terrible results.
Release Date: 1958-05-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Touch of Evil
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.
Release Date: 1958-03-30
Department: Crew
Job: Additional Writing
Vote Count: 1452
The Safecracker
Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
Release Date: 1958-03-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 6
Sing Boy Sing
The teenage son of a rural preacher becomes a huge Elvis-like rock 'n' roll star, but he has trouble adjusting to fame and success.
Release Date: 1958-02-21
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 1
The Death of Manolete
The story of the last hours in the life of Spain's most celebrated matador.
Release Date: 1957-09-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
The Helen Morgan Story
Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.
Release Date: 1957-05-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Bailout at 43,000
An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.
Release Date: 1957-05-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 5
Operation Manhunt
Ten years after his defection from the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, Igor Gouzenko is hunted by Soviet agents. Based on a true story.
Release Date: 1954-10-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Release Date: 1951-12-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 6
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Release Date: 1951-10-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 376
Vote Count: 3
Studio One
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
Release Date: 1948-11-07
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 11