Delmer Daves

DELMER DAVES d1977. American screenwriter, film director and film producer. He worked in many genres, including film noir and warfare, but he is best known for his Western movies, especially ; Broken Arrow (1950) / The Last Wagon (1956) / 3:10 to Yuma (1957) and The Hanging Tree (1959). He was forced to work on studio-based films (only after heart trouble in 1959) but one of these ; A Summer Place was nevertheless a huge commercial success. He worked with some of the best known players of his time including ; Humphrey Bogart / Gary Cooper / Glenn Ford / James Stewart and Richard Widmark. He died in California aged 73 on August 17th 1977