Jo Eisinger (July 24, 1909 – January 1991[1]) was a film and television writer whose career spanned more than 40 years from the early 1940s well into the 1980s.
He is widely recognized as the writer of two of the most psychologically complex film noirs, Gilda (1946) and Night and the City (1950).
A film version of The Walls Came Tumbling Down starring Edgar Buchanan and George Macready was released in 1946.
His credits 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.
Eisinger co-wrote the portmanteau film The Dirty Game (1965) co-directed by Terence Young, then collaborated with Young on The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966) based on an idea by Ian Fleming, The Rover (1967), from the novel by Joseph Conrad that starred Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn, Cold Sweat (1970) starring Charles Bronson and The Jigsaw Man (1983), starring Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier, the latter two films co-scripted with Young's wife mystery writer Dorothea Bennett.