The Walls Came Tumbling Down (film)
The Walls Came Tumbling Down is a 1946 American film noir crime film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Lee Bowman and Marguerite Chapman.
Jo Eisinger
Jo Eisinger( 1909 – 1991) was a film and television writer whose career spanned more than 40 years from the early 1940s well into the 1980s.
He is widely recognized as the writer of two of the most psychologically complex film noirs," Gilda"( 1946) and" Night and the City"( 1950).
His credits also include" The Sleeping City"( 1950) and" Crime of Passion"( 1957), a coda to the films of the noir style, for which he wrote the story as well as the screenplay.
Starring Barbara
Stanwyck, it's a strikingly modern commentary about how women were driven mad by the limitations imposed upon them in the postwar period.
Jo Eisinger started writing for radio penning numerous segments for" The Adventures of Sam Spade" series.
He returned to thriller and private eye adventure series writing for the ITC television series" Danger Man"( 1960 – 61) and the mid-1980s HBO series" Philip Marlowe, Private Eye".
His script for an episode of the latter show," The Pencil", earned him a 1984 Edgar Award.
Eisinger's credits also include several films that departed from his accustomed genres of mystery, adventure and crime.
Among them are" Oscar Wilde"( 1960), starring Robert Morley and Sir Ralph Richardson," The RoverL' Avventuriero", 1967), from the novel by Joseph Conrad and starring Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn, and" The Jigsaw Man"( 1983), starring Laurence Olivier and directed by Terence Young.
Eisinger wrote the books on which the Broadway plays" What Big Ears!"( 1942) and" A Point of Honor"( 1937) were based.
His novel" The Walls Came Tumbling Down"( 1943) was adapted for the long- running radio drama program" Suspense" in 1944; the episode featured screen and radio actors Keenan Wynn and Hans Conried.
A film version of" The Walls Came Tumbling Down" starring Edgar Buchanan and George Macready was released in 1946.
Jo Eisinger's second marriage was to Lorain Beaumont.
Eisinger used his wife's maiden name for Mr. Beaumont, one of the characters in" The Walls Came Tumbling Down".
Henriette Roosenburg
Henriette Roosenburg( 26 May 1916 – 1972) was a Dutch journalist and political prisoner, perhaps best known for her memoir" The Walls Came Tumbling Down", about her attempts to return to the Netherlands from Germany after being released from prison at the end of World War II.
Born in the Netherlands to an upper-class family, she was a graduate student at the University of Leiden at the start of World War II and became a courier in the Dutch resistance, where she served under the code name Zip.
During this time she also wrote for the Dutch newspaper" Het Parool".
In 1944 she was caught and sentenced to death, and became a" Night and Fog prisoner" in a German prison at Waldheim.
At Waldheim, Henriette and the other prisoners were severely undernourished, and spent most of their free time embroidering bits of cloth with terse iconography about their experience.
For instance, one section of Roosenburg's embroidery shows a crude drawing of a gun to indicate that the prisoners had heard what they thought was Allied gunfire, as well as the names" Nel" and" Joke"( pronounced" Yoe- kuh") in Morse code to indicate that she was in solitary confinement, that Nell and Joke were in the two adjacent cells, and that they communicated by tapping Morse code on the walls.
Henriette and the other prisoners were released on 6 May 1945; Henriette and four other Dutch NN prisoners( Dries, Nell, Joke, and Fafa, a Dutch NN prisoner with severe arthritis) had a chance to return to the Netherlands a few days later when the U.S. Army arrived with trucks to carry people through the Russian lines.
However, Fafa's arthritis was so severe that she could not walk; and the surrounding roads were largely unpaved and rough.
The other four did not believe that Fafa would survive the trip even if there were room for her cot -- and there was not room for her cot; the truck was densely packed and offered standing room only.
The group had heard that the Russians intended to send displaced persons back home via Odessa, a port in Ukraine on the Black Sea; considering that too far of a side trip, Dries, Nell, Joke, and Henriette stayed behind to take Fafa to a local civilian hospital instead, and then set out on their own for the Netherlands.
The Russians had established sentries along major routes, including bridges, and were disallowing all unauthorized travel for fear German soldiers would escape along with former German POWs.
Henriette and her friends, through bartering and guile, came to travel along Elbe River in a small boat from Waldheim to Coswig, where they were accosted by Russian soldiers and taken to a displaced persons camp populated by Belgians, Dutch, and Italians.
On 6 June 1945 Roosenburg and a group of Dutch people were exchanged for a group of Russian POWs; they made their way to a Red Cross camp where they found that only the French and Belgians would be flying home; the rest would have to wait several weeks until a truck came.
Roosenburg convinced a Dutch captain to give her group documentation stating that they were political prisoners and should have priority in transportation home; the paperwork she suggested did not mention their nationality, and so left them free to impersonate French or Belgian political prisoners.
The next day Roosenburg and 15 other Dutch set out for Halle airfield, where they convinced an American soldier to allow them flight on the next plane to Belgium.
Once in Belgium, the group set about calling friends and friends' friends to tell them they were alive and on their way home, and on 12 June they arrived at a monastery in the southern
Netherlands where she and her friends were housed with between 1500 and 2000 others.
The Netherlands had just been recently liberated and was suffering famine; as a result, trains to the north of the Netherlands only ran every three or four weeks.
But Roosenburg happened to meet her cousin, Dirk Roosenburg, who had become a first lieutenant in the Dutch Army; he arranged for Henriette and her friends to be driven north the next day, where they reunited with their families.
After the war, Henriette became a correspondent for Time Inc., serving in Paris and The Hague, and then New York City for a decade.
At the beginning of her stay in New York, she wrote the book" The Walls Came Tumbling Down" about her experience traveling from Waldheim to the Netherlands, and was later awarded the Bronze Lion of the Netherlands.
She died in 1972 at the age of 56.
Lothar Mendes
Lothar Mendes( 19 May 1894 – 24 February 1974) was a Jewish German- born screenwriter and film director. who began his career as an actor in Vienna and Berlin in Max Reinhardt's famous troupe.
He went to America in the early 1920s and there he remained until 1933, directing more than a dozen features, mostly frothy comedies, while under contract to Paramount.
His films included the last silent film made in America," The Four Feathers"( 1929) and the murder mystery" Payment Deferred"( 1933) starring British actor Charles Laughton.
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg( 15 August 1928 – 23 November 2018) was an English film director and cinematographer, best known for directing" Performance"( 1970)," Walkabout"( 1971)," Do n't Look Now"( 1973)," The Man Who Fell to Earth"( 1976)," Bad Timing"( 1980), and" The Witches"( 1990).
Making his directorial debut 23 years after his entry into the film business, Roeg quickly became known for an idiosyncratic visual and narrative style, characterized by the use of disjointed and disorienting editing.
For this reason, he is considered a highly influential filmmaker, with such directors as Steven Soderbergh, Christopher Nolan, and Danny Boyle citing him as such.
In 1999, the British Film Institute acknowledged Roeg's importance in the British film industry by respectively naming" Do n't Look Now" and" Performance" the 8th and 48th greatest British films of all time in its Top 100 British films poll.
Candy Clark
Candace June Clark( born June 20, 1947) is an American actress and model.
She is well known for her roles as Debbie Dunham in the 1973 film" American Graffiti", for which she received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Mary Lou in the 1976 film" The Man Who Fell to Earth".
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fiction film directed by Nicolas Roeg and written by Paul Mayersberg, based on Walter Tevis's 1963 novel of the same name, about an extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought.
The film retains a following for its use of surreal imagery and the performance by David Bowie( in his first starring film role) as the alien Thomas Jerome Newton; the film also stars Candy Clark, Buck Henry, and Hollywood veteran Rip Torn.
The same novel was later remade as a less successful 1987 television adaptation.
The film was produced by Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings, who reunited two years later to work on" The Deer Hunter."
Despite a mixed critical response upon release, the film is now considered an important work of science fiction cinema and one of the best films of Roeg's career.
The Man Who Wasn't There (1987 film)
The Man Who Was n't
There is a 1987 French thriller film directed by René Féret and based on Roderick MacLeish's novel" The Man Who Was n't There".
Walter Tevis
Walter Stone Tevis( February 28, 1928 – August 9, 1984) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Three of his six novels were adapted into major films:" The Hustler The Color of Money" and" The Man Who Fell to Earth".
His books have been translated into at least 18 languages.
Albert Nelson (actor)
Albert Nelson is an American- born actor who appeared in the 1976 David Bowie film" The Man Who Fell to Earth" as well the horror movie" The Prophecy".
He has also appeared in numerous television dramas as well as commercials.

Question: Are the directors of films The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Walls Came Tumbling Down (film) both from the same country?
Answer: no