Herbert H. Margolis

Movies

The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Screenstory
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.
Summer Love
Writer
A neighborhood rock band gets a job playing at a summer camp.
The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm
Writer
Ma and Pa do their bit to hook lumberman Brad Johnson up with spoiled socialite Sally Flemming. Ma teaches Sally how to behave like a hick so she'll be compatible with Brad.
Rock Baby - Rock It
Screenplay
A bunch of ugly, tubby, nefarious middle-aged square mobsters threaten to take over a hoppin' Lone Star state teen nightspot, so the smart and resourceful kids hold an impromptu charity rock benefit concert to raise enough bread to save their beloved hangout from the greasy gangsters' vile clutches.
Rock, Pretty Baby
Writer
A high school rock group enters a band contest.
Francis in the Haunted House
Story
A Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got 'Em! ...and it's every ghost for himself!
Francis in the Haunted House
Screenplay
A Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got 'Em! ...and it's every ghost for himself!
For Men Only
Writer
A college professor begins to suspect that a student's accidental death was tied to his refusal to take part in a traditional "hazing" and was no accident.
Smuggler's Island
Story
An adventurer about to lose his sloop and diving equipment agrees to dive for illegal gold.
Larceny
Screenplay
John Payne is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow (Joan Caulfied) into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Payne falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss (Dan Duryea), who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.
Smart Woman
Screenplay
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.