
Birthday:
09-25-1897
Deathday:
07-06-1962 (64 years)
Birthplace:
New Albany, Mississippi, USA
Biography
William Faulkner, one of the 20th century's most gifted novelists, wrote for the movies in part because he could not make enough money from his novels and short stories to support his growing number of dependants. The author of such acclaimed novels as "The Sound and the Fury" and "Absalom, Absalom!", Faulkner received official screen credits for just six theatrical releases, five of which were with director Howard Hawks. Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1949 and he received two Pulitzer Prizes, for "A Fable" in '1955 and "The Reivers", which was published shortly before he died in 1962.
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The Past Is Never Dead: The Story of William Faulkner
Act like Self
event2023 star_border 2
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The first documentary to explore the storied and complex legacy of Nobel-prize winner William Faulkner – his life, literary masterpieces and his role in conversations on race, civil rights and community.
The Big Sleep
Screenplay
event1946 star_border 7.6
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Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
Northern Pursuit
Writer
event1943 star_border 5.9
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Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
The Reivers
Novel
event1969 star_border 6.4
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In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
To Have and Have Not
Screenplay
event1945 star_border 7.5
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A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
The Story of Temple Drake
Novel
event1933 star_border 6.5
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The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
Land of the Pharaohs
Writer
event1955 star_border 6.3
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A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
The Tarnished Angels
Novel
event1957 star_border 6.7
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In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.
Tomorrow
Story
event1972 star_border 7
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A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.
Today We Live
Dialogue
event1933 star_border 6.2
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Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
The Sound and the Fury
Novel
event1959 star_border 6.6
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Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.
As I Lay Dying
Novel
event2013 star_border 5.2
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Strife and disaster befall a poor Mississippi family during a two-day trip by horse and wagon to bury their deceased matriarch.
The Road to Glory
Screenplay
event1936 star_border 6.3
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The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
Slave Ship
Story
event1937 star_border 4.8
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Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Old Man
Novel
event1997 star_border 6.4
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A prisoner set on serving his time gets recruited to save a pregnant woman trapped in a tree during the Great Flood of 1927. A massive storm drives them farther from their destination and they soon must decide to go off on their own or find their way home.
Barn Burning
Short Story
event1980 star_border 4.7
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Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his father will do, Sarty must make a decision and act quickly. Adapted by Academy Award winning screenwriter Horton Foote, Faulkner's complex world of class divisions and hostile family relationships comes to life through a boy's attempt to liberate himself from hatred and poverty.
A Rose for Emily
Writer
event1983 star_border 6
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Townsfolk discover a warped secret while clearing out the house of a recently deceased, aristocratic spinster.
The Arsonist
Story
event2001 star_border 6.2
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The Arsonist involves the struggles of an undocumented immigrant family and a boy's coming-of-age. The son Kesuma must forge his own identity against the intimidating presence of his father Kakang, a man proud of his Javanese heritage and well aware of the social inequalities that allow his exploitation. Kakang counteracts by torching the property of those who slight him, leaving Kesuma simultaneously proud, fearful and ashamed. A clash of wills is all but inevitable. The film climaxes in a poignant conflagration, literal and metaphorical.
Two Soldiers
Short Story
event2003 star_border 6.8
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Set during WWII, a young boy wants to join his brother in the "war at Pearl Harbour".
The Long, Hot Summer
Short Story
event1958 star_border 7.1
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Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
Tandis que j’agonise
Original Film Writer
event1980 star_border 6
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Free adaptation of Faulkner's novel aroused by the Patrick Henry and Ranucci cases.
Old Man
Novel
event1958
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In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.
Mississippi Requiem
Story
event2018
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A collection of four short films based on stories written by William Faulkner.
The Southerner
Writer
event1945 star_border 6.6
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Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?
The Sound and the Fury
Novel
event2015 star_border 5
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A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
Intruder in the Dust
Novel
event1949 star_border 7.3
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Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
Adventures of Don Juan
Screenplay
event1948 star_border 6.4
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Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under threat from sinister forces.
As I Lay Dying
Novel
event2018 star_border 5.8
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A free adaptation of the classic William Faulkner novel, AS I LAY DYING follows four siblings - three brothers, accompanying their only sister - as they drive to the south of Iran with their newly-deceased father's body. Their father's will demands that his body be buried in a small, faraway village, a place none of his children have ever heard of.
The Leg
Novel
event1991 star_border 3.4
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The film's protagonist Valera - cheerful guy from Moscow, who at age 19 learned a whole hell of war in Afghanistan, where he lost a leg. Returning from the war, he had no idea what a nightmare for him is just beginning.
Background to Danger
Writer
event1943 star_border 6.6
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An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Sanctuary
Novel
event1961 star_border 5.3
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In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.
The Long Hot Summer
Novel (2 ep.)
event1985 star_border 5.4
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When drifter Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town, Will Varner, a family patriarch, sees Ben as a better choice to inherit the family business than his only son, Jody. Will therefore tries to push Ben and his daughter Clara into marriage. Clara is initially reluctant to court Ben, and Jody senses that Ben threatens his position.
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