Francis Martin

Movies

Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers
Writer
Interviews and documentary footage combine with the fictional story of an air-force pilot who encounters aliens.
Shut My Big Mouth
Screenplay
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
Tillie the Toiler
Screenplay
While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a friend, she continually throws him over for handsomer men.
College Swing
Screenplay
Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Screenplay
The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
Artists & Models
Screenplay
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
Waikiki Wedding
Screenplay
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.
The Big Broadcast of 1937
Screenplay
A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930's radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline about a failing radio station which needs to put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation. An interesting mixture of the stars whose fame continued to grow, those who became bit players in show business history, and those who have been forgotten entirely, except at the Internet Movie Database of course!
Rhythm on the Range
Screenplay
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
The Princess Comes Across
Screenplay
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America, and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Strike Me Pink
Screenplay
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Collegiate
Writer
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
Two-Fisted
Screenplay
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.
The Big Broadcast of 1936
Screenplay
The wisp of a storyline involves two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller, who doubles as the station's sole announcer while his comic partner Smiley serves as the house crooner. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a television device which can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere.
Mississippi
Screenplay
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
College Rhythm
Screenplay
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.
We're Not Dressing
Screenplay
Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to an island with the help of singing sailor Stephen Jones. Her friend Edith, Uncle Hubert, and Princes Michael and Alexander make it to the same island but all prove to be useless in the art of survival. The sailor is the only one with the practical knowhow to survive but Doris and the others snub his leadership offer. That is until he starts a clam bake and wafts the fumes in their starving faces. The group gradually gives into his leadership, the only question now is if Doris will give into his charms.
Tillie and Gus
Director
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race against Pratt's boat.
Her Bodyguard
Writer
The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other men, most notably the producer of the show in which she's starring. However, soon the bodyguard and the star begin to become attracted to each other.
Disgraced!
Writer
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets accused of the crime.
International House
Screenplay
Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
Ceux de 1830
Hundred year anniversary of the Belgian revolution (which resulted in the independence of Belgium in 1830).
Ceux de 1830
Director
Hundred year anniversary of the Belgian revolution (which resulted in the independence of Belgium in 1830).
Pep Up
Director
Cliff presents his girl with a poodle at a party. His jealous rival plants bugs on both the dog and Cliff.
Femme belge Gabrielle Petit
Patriotic film about the Belgian woman hero Gabrielle Petit - Madame Legrand - during the First World War in Belgium.
Femme belge Gabrielle Petit
Director
Patriotic film about the Belgian woman hero Gabrielle Petit - Madame Legrand - during the First World War in Belgium.
A Man About Town
Writer
A comedy short film directed by George Marshall.
East of the Water Plug
Director
East of the Water Plug is a silent comedy.
Âme belge
Jean Magnier
Espionage movie about a German-Belgian family in occupied Brussels, and besides, an ode to the heroîsm of the Belgian soldier.