John Twist (July 14, 1898 – February 11, 1976) was an American

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

whose career spanned four decades. Born in Albany, Missouri, Twist began his career in the

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era, providing the story for such films as ''Breed of Courage'', ''Blockade'', and ''The Big Diamond Robbery''. He earned his first screenwriting credit for '' The Yellowback'' in 1929. Twist died in

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Filmography

* ''

Little Women ''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters— Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details th ...

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'' (1935) * '' Another Face'' (1935) * '' The Last Outlaw'' (1936) * '' We Who Are About to Die'' (1937) * '' The Toast of New York'' (1937) * '' Next Time I Marry'' (1938) * '' The Great Man Votes'' (1939) * '' The Saint Strikes Back'' (1939) * '' Too Many Girls'' (1940) * '' Powder Town'' (1942) * ''

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'' (1942) * '' Bombardier'' (1943) * '' This Man's Navy'' (1945) * ''

Sinbad the Sailor Sinbad the Sailor (; or Sindbad) is a fictional mariner and the hero of a Literary cycle, story-cycle. He is described as hailing from Baghdad during the early Abbasid Caliphate (8th and 9th centuries A.D.). In the course of seven voyages thr ...

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'' (1949) * ''

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'' (1950) * ''

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'' (1951) * '' The Big Trees'' (1952) * '' So Big'' (1953) * ''

King Richard and the Crusaders ''King Richard and the Crusaders'' is a 1954 American historical drama based on Sir Walter Scott's '' The Talisman'' made by Warner Bros. The film stars Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders and Laurence Harvey, with Robert Douglas, Mich ...

'' (1954) * '' The Sea Chase'' (1955) * ''

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'' (1956) * ''

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'' (1956) * ''

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'' (1956) * '' Band of Angels'' (1957) * '' The Deep Six'' (1958) * '' The FBI Story'' (1959) * '' A Distant Trumpet'' (1964) * '' None but the Brave'' (1965)

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* 1898 births 1976 deaths American male screenwriters People from Albany, Missouri Screenwriters from Missouri 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-screen-writer-1890s-stub