Charles Kaufman

Writing

Charles Kaufman

Born — Died

1904-10-20 — 1991-05-02

Place of birth

Paterson, New Jersey, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

15 titles

Known for

Freud: The Secret Passion poster
6.5

An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.

Freud: The Secret Passion

1962

The Saint in New York poster
6.5

A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.

The Saint in New York

1938

Let There Be Light poster
7.3

The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. Some returning combat veterans suffer scars that are more psychological than physical. This film follows patients and staff during their treatment. It deals with what would now be called PTSD, but at the time was categorised as psychoneurosis or shell-shock. Government officials deemed this 1946 film counterproductive to postwar efforts; it was not shown publicly until 1981.

Let There Be Light

1946

Bridge to the Sun poster
6.9

Tells the true story of American Gwen Terasaki, who falls in love with, then marries a Japanese diplomat. When World War II breaks out, they encounter animosity and trouble from both sides.

Bridge to the Sun

1961

The Racers poster
6.7

An Italian daredevil turns Grand Prix driver and works his way up to Le Mans with his ballerina lover.

The Racers

1955

The Story of Esther Costello poster
7.0

Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident that killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is persuaded to help educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband.

The Story of Esther Costello

1957

Behind the camera

Freud: The Secret Passion poster
6.5

An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.

Freud: The Secret Passion

1962

The Saint in New York poster
6.5

A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.

The Saint in New York

1938

Let There Be Light poster
7.3

The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. Some returning combat veterans suffer scars that are more psychological than physical. This film follows patients and staff during their treatment. It deals with what would now be called PTSD, but at the time was categorised as psychoneurosis or shell-shock. Government officials deemed this 1946 film counterproductive to postwar efforts; it was not shown publicly until 1981.

Let There Be Light

1946

Bridge to the Sun poster
6.9

Tells the true story of American Gwen Terasaki, who falls in love with, then marries a Japanese diplomat. When World War II breaks out, they encounter animosity and trouble from both sides.

Bridge to the Sun

1961

The Racers poster
6.7

An Italian daredevil turns Grand Prix driver and works his way up to Le Mans with his ballerina lover.

The Racers

1955

The Story of Esther Costello poster
7.0

Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident that killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is persuaded to help educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband.

The Story of Esther Costello

1957

Blond Cheat poster
7.3

Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.

Blond Cheat

1938

Exposed poster
6.7

A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.

Exposed

1938

Model Wife poster
6.5

Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.

Model Wife

1941

Paris Calling poster
6.0

Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...

Paris Calling

1941

Cynthia poster
6.2

Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.

Cynthia

1947

Breakfast for Two poster
5.9

After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.

Breakfast for Two

1937

Saturday's Heroes poster
8.0

College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.

Saturday's Heroes

1937

Return to Paradise poster
5.9

An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.

Return to Paradise

1953

South Seas Adventure poster
5.9

Cinerama takes you on a South Seas Adventure to tropical islands set like sparkling jewels in dreamy cerulean waters. Thrill to the lure of sunbrowned, luscious maidens and a paradise of coconut palms, coral strand and blue lagoons. Enchanted South Pacific archipelagos beckon with all the beauty and color of a painter’s palette. Stepping stones in the vast expanse of far-away seas, they promise romance, adventure, excitement—an irresistible blend of fascinating people and exotic places.

South Seas Adventure

1958