Among them are Oscar Wilde (1960), starring Sir Ralph Richardson and Robert Morley, The Rover (L'Avventuriero), (1967), from a novel by Joseph Conrad and starring Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn, and The Jigsaw Man (1984), starring Laurence Olivier and directed by Terence Young.
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His credits also include The Sleeping City (1950) and Crime of Passion (1957), a coda to the films of the noir style, for which he wrote the story as well as the screenplay.
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He is widely recognized as the writer of two of the most psychologically complex film noirs: Gilda (1946) and Night and the City (1950).