What American playwright, stage director and screenwriter of a screenplay "Rope"?
Arthur Laurents Arthur Laurents (July 14, 1917 – May 5, 2011) was an American playwright, stage director and screenwriter.
Frederick Knott Frederick Major Paull Knott (28 August 1916 — 17 December 2002) was an English playwright known for his ingeniously complex, crime-related plots. Though he was a reluctant writer and completed only three plays in his career, two have become classics: the London-based stage thriller "Dial M for Murder", which was later filmed in Hollywood by Alfred Hitchcock, and the chilling 1966 play "Wait Until Dark", which also became a Hollywood film.