W.R. Burnett. Bibliographie. Filmographie.

Believed to be complete. Almost all of this information was gathered from Katherine Harper’s W.R. Burnett site (now disappeared), which featured annotations and comments on most listings.

Books

1.      Little Caesar (Lincoln McVeagh/Dial, 1929)

2.      The Silver Eagle (McVeagh/Dial, 1931)

3.      The Giant Swing (Harper. 1932)

4.      Iron Man (McVeagh/Dial, 1932)

5.      “Saint” Johnson (McVeagh/Dial, 1932)

6.      Dark Hazard (Harper, 1933)

7.      Goodbye to the Past: Scenes from the Life of William Meadows (Harper, 1934)

8.      The Goodhues of Sinking Creek (Harper, 1934) (based on “Hard Wood”)

9.      King Cole (Harper, 1936)

10.   The Dark Command: A Kansas Iliad (Knopf, 1938)

11.   High Sierra (Knopf, 1940)

12.   The Quick Brown Fox (Knopf, 1942)

13.   Nobody Lives Forever (Knopf, 1943; serialized in Collier’s, 13 October - 30 October 1943)

14.   Tomorrow’s Another Day (Knopf, 1945)

15.   Romelle (Knopf, 1946)

16.   The Asphalt Jungle (Knopf, 1949)

17.   Stretch Dawson (Gold Medal, 1950)

18.   Little Men, Big World (Knopf, 1951)

19.   Vanity Row (Knopf, 1952)

20.   Adobe Walls: A Novel of the Last Apache Rising (Knopf, 1953)

21.   Big Stan (Gold Medal, 1953) (as John Monahan)

22.   Captain Lightfoot (Knopf, 1954)

23.   It’s Always Four O’Clock (Random House, 1956) (as James Updyke)

24.   Pale Moon (Knopf, 1956)

25.   Underdog (Knopf, 1957)

26.   Bitter Ground Knopf, (1958)

27.   Mi Amigo: A Novel of the Southwest (Knopf, 1959)

28.   Conant (Popular Library, 1961)

29.   Round the Clock at Volari’s (Gold Medal, 1961)

30.   The Goldseekers (Doubleday, 1962)

31.   The Widow Barony (Macdonald, 1962)

32.   The Abilene Samson (Pocket Books, 1963)

33.   Sergeants 3 (Pocket Books, 1963)

34.   The Roar of the Crowd: Conversations With an Ex-Big-Leaguer (C.N. Potter, 1964)

35.   The Winning of Mickey Free (Bantam Pathfinder, 1965)

36.   The Cool Man (Gold Medal, 1968)

37.   Goodbye, Chicago: 1928, End of an Era (St. Martin’s, 1981)

  Short Fiction

1.      “Round Trip” (Harper’s Monthly Magazine, August 1929)

2.      “A Modern McTeague” (Saturday Review of Literature, 3 August 1929) (review of Thames Williamson’s Hunky)

3.      “Dressing Up” (Harper’s Monthly Magazine, November 1929)

4.      “The Hunted” (Liberty, ? 1930)

5.      “Along the Tracks” (Scribner’s Magazine, April 1930)

6.      “Nobody’s All Bad” (Colllier’s, 7 June 1930)

7.      “Between Rounds” (Collier’s, 30 August 1930)

8.      “The Czar of Chicago” (Saturday Review of Literature, 18 October 1930) (review of Fred Pasley’s Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man)

9.      “Hard Wood” (Scribner’s Magazine, November 1930)

10.   ? (Saturday Review of Literature, 22 November 1930) (review of Edward Dean Sullivan’s Chicago Surrenders)

11.   “Protection” (serialized in Collier’s, 2 May - 4 July 1931)

12.   “Mr. Litvinoff” (Collier’s, 18 July 1931)

13.   “Primal Simplicity” (Saturday Review of Literature, 10 October 1931) (review of Thames Williamson’s In Krusak’s House)

14.   “Strategy” (The American Mercury, February 1933)

15.   “For Charity’s Sake” (Esquire, June 1934)

16.   “Jail Breaker” (serialed in Collier’s, 7 July - 11 August 1934)

17.   “Doctor Socrates” (serialized in Collier’s, 16 March - 20 April 1935)

18.   “Travelling Light” (Collier’s, 7 December 1935)

19.   “Greyhound Racing” (Esquire, February 1936)

20.   “Across the Aisle” (Colliers, 4 April 1936)

21.   “Suspect” (Collier’s, 4 July 1936)

22.   “First Blood” (Collier’s, 23 April 1938)

23.   “The Ivory Tower” (Good Housekeeping, March 1945)

24.   “Odds Against the Girl” (serialized in Collier’s, 30 June - 21 July 1945)

25.   “Little David” (Saturday Evening Post, 15 February 1947)

26.   “Racket Alley” (serialized in Collier’s, 9 December 1950 - 6 January 1951) (abridged version of Little Men, Big World)

27.   “Vanishing Act” (Manhunt, November 1955)

  Writer:

1.      Cool Breeze (1972) (novel “The Asphalt Jungle”)

2.      Stiletto (1969) (uncredited)

3.      Ice Station Zebra (1968) (uncredited)

4.      “Bonanza” (1 episode, 1968) The Stronghold (1968) TV episode (written by)

5.      “The Virginian” (1 episode, 1967) The Fortress (1967) TV episode (story)

6.      “Off to See the Wizard” (1 episode, 1967) Hell Cats (1967) TV episode (writer)

7.      The Jackals (1967) (story)

8.      “The Legend of Jesse James” (1 episode, 1965) Manhunt (1965) TV episode (adaptation)

9.      4 for Texas (1963) (uncredited)

10.   The Great Escape (1963) (screenplay) (as W. R. Burnett)

11.   Cairo (1963) (novel)

12.   Sergeants 3 (1962) (written by)

13.   The Lawbreakers (1961) (written by)

14.   “The Asphalt Jungle” (13 episodes, 1961)

15.    “Naked City” (1 episode, 1960) Debt of Honor (1960) TV episode (writer)

16.   September Storm (1960) (screenplay)

17.   “The Untouchables” (1 episode, 1960) The Big Squeeze (1960) TV episode (story) (teleplay)

18.   “77 Sunset Strip” (1 episode, 1959) Thanks for Tomorrow (1959) TV episode (novel) (teleplay)

19.   The Hangman (1959) (uncredited)

20.   The Badlanders (1958) (novel) (as W. R. Burnett)

21.   Short Cut to Hell (1957) (1942 screenplay This Gun for Hire) (originally uncredited)

22.   Accused of Murder (1956) (novel “Vanity Row”) (screenplay)

23.   “Studio 57” (1 episode, 1956) Deadline (1956) TV episode (original)

24.   “Screen Directors Playhouse” (1 episode, 1955) Rookie of the Year (1955) TV episode (story)

25.   I Died a Thousand Times (1955) (novel “High Sierra”) (uncredited) (written by)

26.   Illegal (1955) (screenplay)

27.   Captain Lightfoot (1955) (novel)

28.   Night People (1954) (uncredited)

29.   Dangerous Mission (1954) (screen play) (as W. R. Burnett)

30.   Arrowhead (1953) (novel “Adobe Walls”)

31.   Law and Order (1953) (novel “Saint Johnson”) (as William R. Burnett)

32.   “Studio One” (1 episode, 1952) Little Man, Big World (1952) TV episode (story)

33.   The Racket (1951) (screenplay) (as W. R. Burnett)

34.   Iron Man (1951) (novel)

35.   Vendetta (1950)

36.   “Danger” (1 episode, 1950) Dressing Up (1950) TV episode (writer)

37.   The Asphalt Jungle (1950) (from a novel by)

38.   Colorado Territory (1949) (novel “High Sierra”) (uncredited)

39.   “Kraft Television Theatre” (1 episode, 1949) The Whole Town’s Talking (1949) TV episode (story)

40.   Yellow Sky (1948) (story) (as W. R. Burnett)

41.   Belle Starr’s Daughter (1948) (original screenplay)

42.   The Man I Love (1947) (uncredited)

43.   Nobody Lives Forever (1946) (novel “I Wasn’t Born Yesterday”) (uncredited) (original screenplay)

44.   San Antonio (1945) (screenplay)

45.   Background to Danger (1943) (screenplay)

46.   Action in the North Atlantic (1943) (additional dialogue)

47.   Crash Dive (1943) (story)

48.   Wake Island (1942) (screenplay) (story) (uncredited)

49.   This Gun for Hire (1942) (screen play)

50.   Dance Hall (1941) (novel “Giant Swing”)

51.   The Get-Away (1941) (screenplay)

52.   High Sierra (1941) (from a novel by) (screen play)

53.   Law and Order (1940) (novel “Saint Johnson”)

54.   The Westerner (1940) (uncredited)

55.   Dark Command (1940) (novel) (as W. R. Burnett)

56.   King of the Underworld (1939) (adapted from a story by)

57.   Some Blondes Are Dangerous (1937) (novel “Iron Man”)

58.   Wine, Women and Horses (1937) (novel “Dark Hazard”) (uncredited)

59.   Wild West Days (1937) (based on novel “Saint Johnson” by)

60.   36 Hours to Kill (1936) (based on a story by)

61.   Dr. Socrates (1935) (story)

62.   The Whole Town’s Talking (1935) (story)

63.   Dark Hazard (1934) (novel)

64.   Scarface (1932) (continuity) (dialogue)

65.   Law and Order (1932) (novel “Saint Johnson”) (as William R. Burnett)

66.   The Beast of the City (1932) (story)

67.   Iron Man (1931) (story) (as William R. Burnett)

68.   The Finger Points (1931) (by)

69.   Little Caesar (1931) (novel)