Hollywood Tales

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Screenwriter Ben Maddow with a great story about 1950s Hollywood producer Philip Yordan.

If you gave him a good idea, he’d steal it from himself later on. There’s an idea in Men in War [1957] in which the platoon commander is killed, they strap him into this jeep, and they drive him around as though he is alive just to keep up the morale. Well, Yordan used exactly the same idea in some film about Spain, El Cid [1961], where the guy is…