Paul Armstrong

Birth : 1869-04-25, St. Joseph - Missouri - USA

Death : 1915-08-30

Movies

Lawrence & Holloman
Producer
Lawrence is an optimistic suit salesman for whom everything always goes right-until he takes the suicidal credit collector Holloman under his wing, and everything starts to go wrong. Very wrong.
Ever Since Eve
Theatre Play
Neil Rogers, a young man who owns a substantial share of a Western gold mine, comes East and falls in love with the rather wild Elizabeth Vandegrift.
Alias Jimmy Valentine
Writer
An Incompetent insurance salesman sells a policy to Jesse James and has to protect his client until he can get it back.
Romance of the Underworld
Theatre Play
When a gangster's speakeasy is raided by the police, one of the people picked up is the gangster's pretty young girlfriend. A kind-hearted cop takes pity on her and helps her get out of that life. While waitressing to earn money for college, she meets a wealthy and handsome young man and they fall in love--but he doesn't know about her somewhat shady past and her relationship with the gangster.
Paths to Paradise
Theatre Play
Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance.
The Deep Purple
Theatre Play
Doris Moore is a country girl who is conned by two crooks, Harry Leland and Pop Clark. They convince the naive girl to come with them to New York City and play the badger game on William Lake. But the intervention of Kate Fallon, who runs the gang's New York home, saves the innocent and traps the guilty. Instead of tricking Lake, Doris marries him.
Alias Jimmy Valentine
Theatre Play
The saga of Alias Jimmy Valentine began with the O. Henry story "A Retrieved Reformation". This surprise-ending tale was adapted into a stage play by Paul Armstrong, which subsequently was adapted to film several times
The Bludgeon
Theatre Play
When Carl Evendorr (John Dunn) comes into money, his wife Irene (Kathryn Osterman) becomes greedy and socially ambitious. She foolishly allows a social leech, Mrs. Wharton (Clara Whipple), into her life and the woman does everything she can to manipulate money out of her. Mrs. Wharton and her associates put Irene in a compromising position and her husband walks in and believes the worst.
The Lure of Woman
Theatre Play
John Found, a well-educated American Indian, works as an interpreter on an army post in the West. Although John Lane, a post officer, loves Katie O'Day, a rancher's daughter, he becomes the amorous target of the widowed Mrs. Van Allen. To rid herself of Katie, Mrs. Van Allen starts a rumor that Lane has a wife in an insane asylum.
Via Wireless
Theatre Play
Crime drama about the rivalry over a new invention and a nice girl.
Salomy Jane
Writer
When beautiful Salomy Jane resists the romantic advances of a young ruffian, she is rescued by Jack Dart, who has his own additional reasons for tangling with the man. Jack fights the ruffian and kills him. He escapes with the law on his trail, for it is (wrongly) presumed that he is also the man who held up the stagecoach. Salomy Jane comes to his rescue when he is captured and about to be lynched.
The Escape
Writer
A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.
Under A Glass Moon
Executive Producer
An elderly man is attacked in his home by a masked intruder. In the horrific scenario that plays out, it is revealed that neither the old man nor his assailant are who they appear to be, and that in fact these two share a disturbing past.