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Philip Yordan was an American screenwriter and producer whose career included film noir, crime films, westerns, and historical dramas. He received the Academy Award for Best Story for The Broken Lance, released in 1954, at the 1955 ceremony. Yordan was also associated with screenwriting and production work on films made in Hollywood and abroad during the mid-twentieth century.
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What Oscar did Philip Yordan win?
Yordan won the Academy Award for Best Story for Broken Lance, the 1954 western, at the 1955 ceremony. AFI distinguishes his story credit from Richard Murphy's screenplay credit. [AFI Catalog](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53548-BROKEN-LANCE?cxt=filmography)
How is Broken Lance connected to House of Strangers?
Yordan's screenplay for the 1949 film House of Strangers provided the story basis for Broken Lance, which reset the family conflict as a western. AFI records Yordan as the sole story-credit holder even though Richard Murphy wrote the 1954 screenplay. [AFI Catalog](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/53548-BROKEN-LANCE?cxt=filmography)
What kinds of films did Philip Yordan write?
His credits span film noir, crime, western, and historical drama, including the 1945 crime film Dillinger and the 1951 film noir Detective Story. His 1954 western Broken Lance shows how his story work also reached large studio productions.
Why do Philip Yordan credits sometimes look complicated?
His name can appear on a story credit even when another writer handled the final screenplay, as with Broken Lance. Film historians have also debated his producer relationships and connections with blacklisted writers, so a single database label can hide different kinds of credit.
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