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Lem Dobbs

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Biography

Lem Dobbs is a British-American screenwriter, best known for the films Dark City and The Limey. He was born in Oxford, England, and is the son of the painter R. B. Kitaj. The pen name "Dobbs" was taken from the character played by Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

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The Limey

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Dark City

Screenplay

The Score

Screenplay

Haywire

Writer

Lee

Story

Gotti

Screenplay

The Hard Way

Screenplay

Chains

KinoChain journeys

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The Long Goodbye: Twilight of Heroes and Outlaws

There is a moment in Richard Lester's Robin and Marian (1976) that cuts deeper than any broadsword. Sean Connery, sporting grey in his beard and exhaustion in h...

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