Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

As a documentarian he directed and wrote such films as Storm of Strangers The Stairs and The Savage Eye (1959) which won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award. October 9 1992 Los Angeles California) was a prolific screenwriter and documentarian from the 1930s through the 70s.

His final screenplay was for the horror melodrama The Mephisto Waltz (1970). Educated at Columbia University Maddow began his career working within the American documentary movement in the 30s.