Frank S. Nugent

Frank Stanley Nugent May 27 1908 December 29 1965 was an American screenwriter journalist and film reviewer He wrote 21 film scripts 11 for director John Ford He wrote almost a thousand reviews for The New York Times before leaving journalism for Hollywood He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1953 and twice won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Comedy The Writers Guild of America West ranks his screenplay for The Searchers 1956 among the top 101 screenplays of all time