It's not the look you'd expect from a playwright associated with taut, muscular plays about, as he puts it, "hairy blokes in work situations".
Mr. Mann directs this taut thriller about the tobacco industry whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand with pulse-quickening panache.
The influential The House on 92nd Street (1945) was a taut docudrama about Nazis trying to steal atomic bomb secrets during World War II.
$23. Paula Fox's 1970 novella "Desperate Characters" was a small, taut masterpiece about a marriage unraveling, a society imploding, a woman's life coming undone.
More successfully, he directed the television film "Rogue Male" (1976), a taut thriller about a British aristocrat, played by Mr. O'Toole, who tries to assassinate Hitler and flees to Dorset, pursued by Gestapo agents.
Many had predicted recognition for Whiplash's editing and best supporting actor (JK Simmons), but Damien Chazelle's taut drama about a ferocious drum teacher also scored best picture, best sound editing and best adapted screenplay nominations.
A headless body, a combustible dog and "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" are among the plot elements in this taut mystery about an ex-policewoman trying to track down her missing husband.
The accepted narrative about the career of Gary Mitchell - a working-class Protestant from Belfast who writes taut thrillers about Unionist paramilitarism (to which The Wrong Man is stylistically similar) - is that he had take his work outside of Northern Ireland to get it produced.
Often just sloppy live, tonight there's a taut force about their trebly racket and a surprising surfeit of light and shade to their sound: they shift from the din of Horrorshow to the sweetly affecting Music When The Lights Go Out.
His career dated to the late 1950s, when he made "Compulsion," a taut drama about the notorious Leopold and Loeb murder case.
