Arthur St. Claire

Movies

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Boubou
A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
Rimfire
Screenplay
An undercover Army captain links missing gold and murder to a gambler's ghost.
The Prairie
Screenplay
The Prairie is set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. Hoping to find their destiny in the new territory, the Bush Family heads southward in a covered wagon. Sharing the family's numerous dangers and hardships are Ellen Wade (Lenore Aubert), sole survivor of an Indian attack, and army mapmaker Paul Hover (Alan Baxter). Cousins Abiram (Russ Vincent) and Asa (Jack Mitchum) duke it out over Ellen's affections
Philo Vance's Gamble
Writer
One of two Philo Vance mystery movies released by PRC.
Gunman's Code
Story
Wells Fargo agents Jack Douglas (Kirby Grant) and Bosco O'Toole (Fuzzy Knight) are sent after a gang of stage robbers. Danny Burton (Bernard Thomas, brother of Laura Burton (Jane Adams, is implicated before Jack is able to prove that saloon owner Lee Fain (Danny Morton) is the man behind the outlaw gang.
Queen of Burlesque
Dialogue
Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre.
The Mask of Diijon
Story
A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.
The Mask of Diijon
Screenplay
A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.
Shadow Of Terror
Writer
A scientist possessing the formula for making a nuclear bomb finds himself chased by evil gangsters in this thriller that was made just after the A-bomb was dropped upon Hiroshima.
Arson Squad
Writer
Tom Mitchell is an insurance investigator and Fire Capt. Joe Dugan is chief of the police department's arson troubleshooters. Tom and Joe team up to solve a particularly vicious series of deliberate fires. A man has been killed in one conflagration, so the villains have a murder rap hanging over them.
Secrets of a Sorority Girl
Screenplay
In this crime drama, a sorority girl is photographed hanging around with known criminals in illicit gambling dens. The resulting pictures are then used to blackmail her father, a district attorney.
Delinquent Daughters
Screenplay
A town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among the youth of the town.
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Dialogue
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Screenplay
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
Tiger Fangs
Screenplay
A big-game hunter travels to Malaya to help stop the Nazis and Japanese from destroying the rubber industry.
Tiger Fangs
Story
A big-game hunter travels to Malaya to help stop the Nazis and Japanese from destroying the rubber industry.
Submarine Base
Writer
Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
A Night for Crime
Screenplay
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.
Man of Courage
Writer
A crusading district attorney tries to stop a local mob boss who has connections in high places.
Miss V from Moscow
Story
Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny resemblance to a dead Nazi spy, she infiltrates the enemy and works to save U.S. ships from German submarines. Assisting her on her mission are French underground agents, along with an American serving in the British armed forces.
The Yanks Are Coming
Adaptation
A popular band joins the army with the idea of putting on shows for troops overseas. During rehearsals, a battle erupts and the musicians must exchange their musical instruments for guns and fight.
Along the Sundown Trail
Writer
PRC's shoddy Frontier Marshal series came to a merciful end with this below-average Western starring radio personalities Bill "Cowboy Rambler" Boyd and Art Davis and former serial ace Lee Powell. They come to the aid of miner Pop Lawrence (Karl Hackett) and his daughter, Susan (Julie Duncan), whose foreman (Jack Ingram) is stealing tungsten ore on behalf of saloon proprietor Big Ben Salter (Charles King). Pop's son and heir, Joe (Howard Masters), is framed in his father's killing by the nefarious Big Ben, who wants to get his greedy hands on Susan's inheritance, the Paradise Mine. Marshal Powell and his two rather inactive sidekicks are unable to save Joe's life and the film ends on a rather downbeat note with Susan the only Lawrence left standing.
King of the Stallions
Writer
Both Indians and cowboys are after a beautiful stallion, the leader of a pack of wild horses.
A Yank In Libya
Screenplay
American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an uprising of the Arab tribes in Lybia. Pursued by Sheik David and his men, Mike takes refuge in the suite of Nancy Brooks, who is in the British Intelligence. He asks her to hide a gun and escapes through a window. Reporting the affair to British Consul Herbert Forbes, the latter tries to discourage him from further investigation, as the British are aware of the plot and are planning on staging a coup. He goes with Mike to Nancy's apartment, and she denies having ever seen him before. Sheik Ibrahim, next in command of the Arab tribe to Sheik David, is plotting with Nazi agent Yussof Streyer to kill David who is friendly with the British. Mike and Nancy have gone to David's camp, escape from Ibrahim's henchmen, and get back to El Moktar before the Arabs attack the garrison.
The Dawn Express
Writer
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
Stagecoach Buckaroo
Story
Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.
Secrets of a Model
Story
Pretty girl in need of money for her dying mom's operation poses for a sculpture.
Boss of Bullion City
Story
A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.
Boss of Bullion City
Screenplay
A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.