Sex In A Submarine

The adventures of a professional screenwriter and sometimes film festival jurist, slogging through the trenches of Hollywood, writing movies that you have never heard of, and getting no respect.
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Friday, June 20, 2025

Fridays With Hitchcock: TOPAZ (1969)

“Topaz” (1969) Screenplay: Samuel Taylor based on the novel by Leon Uris Starring: Frederick Stafford, John Vernon, John Forsythe Roscoe...

Thursday, June 19, 2025

THRILLER Thursday: The Fatal Impulse

The Fatal Impulse The spider web fills the screen, it's Boris Karloff's THRILLER! Season: 1, Episode: 11. Airdate: 11/2...

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Film Courage Plus: Landing A Writing Gig

FILM COURAGE did a series of interviews with me in 2014 and 2015 -about 36 (or more) segments total. That's almost a year's worth of...

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Trailer Tuesday: The Great Santini

Sunday was Father's Day... THE GREAT SANTINI (1979) Director: Lewis John Carlino. Writers: Lewis John Carlino based on the novel by P...

Friday, June 13, 2025

Fridays With Hitchcock: FRENZY (1972)

Almost a horror flick from Hitch for Friday 13th... FRENZY (1972) Screenplay: Anthony Schaffer based on the novel by Arthur La Bern. St...

Thursday, June 12, 2025

THRILLER Thursday: The Devil's Ticket

THRILLER: Devil’s Ticket The spider web fills the screen, it's Boris Karloff's THRILLER! Season: 1, Episode: 29. Airdate: ...

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Film Courage Plus: Individual Dialogue.

FILM COURAGE did a series of interviews with me in 2014 and 2015 -about 36 (or more) segments total. That's almost a year's worth of...

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About Me

wcmartell: I've written 19 films that were carelessly slapped onto celluloid: 3 for HBO, 2 for Showtime, 2 for USA Net, and a whole bunch of CineMax Originals (which is what happens when an HBO movie goes really, really wrong). I've been on some film festival juries, including Raindance in London (four times - once with Mike Figgis and Saffron Burrows, once with Lennie James and Edgar Wright). Roger Ebert talked about me with Gene Siskel on his 1997 "If We Picked The Winners" Oscar show. I'm quoted a few times in Bordwell's great book "The Way Hollywood tells It". My USA Net flick HARD EVIDENCE was released on video the same day as the Julia Roberts' film Something To Talk About and out-rented it in the USA. I've also written a whole bunch of theatrical projects that never got made (I got paid) and was stupid enough to actually *turn down* the job of adapting Dan Brown's ANGELS & DEMONS. On the personal side - I'm single and fat and 6 foot 4 inches tall. Like dogs, hate cats.
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