Charles Maxwell

Birth : 1892-10-25, Leipzig, Germany

Death : 1962-08-20

Movies

D-Day on Mars
Music
This is a shortened version of the 1945 Republic serial "The Purple Monster Strikes," which was released to television in 1966.
Five
Music
The film's storyline involves five survivors, one woman and four men, of an atomic bomb disaster. The five come together at a remote, isolated hillside house, where they try to figure out how to survive.
Highway 301
Orchestrator
The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.
This Side of the Law
Orchestrator
A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment.
Colt .45
Orchestrator
Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.
Barricade
Orchestrator
Western remake of Jack London's The Sea Wolf. A sadistic mining camp owner "hires" scoundrels to work the mine. He just won't let them quit.
The House Across the Street
Orchestrator
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.
Homicide
Orchestrator
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?
Flaxy Martin
Orchestrator
Messing with a mobster's girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.
The Big Punch
Orchestrator
Gangsters frame a boxer for murder when he refuses to throw a fight.
Bells of San Angelo
Music
Gridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage into his worthless mine. Border guard Rogers suspects Gridley and finally finds the secret entrance to the Mexican mine. He sends Lee Madison for help only to have her captured by Gridley. Trigger brings help that takes care of Gridley's men and now Roy has to rescue Madison.
Hitler Lives
Orchestrator
This short film, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas live on.
Scotland Yard Investigator
Original Music Composer
A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.
The Woman in the Window
Music
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Storm Over Lisbon
Music
A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.
Strangers in the Night
Additional Music
In this Gothic tale, a returning WW2 vet goes looking for a small-town girl whom he knows only from letters. Its the pretext for an off-beat treatment of sexual frustration morphing into a dangerous delusion, and eventually murder.
Quiet Please, Murder
Additional Music
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
The Mysterious Doctor
Orchestrator
The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
Spy Ship
Orchestrator
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Orchestrator
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
Steel Against the Sky
Orchestrator
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Orchestrator
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Highway West
Orchestrator
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Ride, Kelly, Ride
Music
Jockey (Stephens) struggles against gamblers with the help of stable trainer (Pallette) and horse onwer's daughter (Quigley).
Rulers of the Sea
Orchestrator
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
The Women
Orchestrator
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
The Return of the Cisco Kid
Original Music Composer
In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid who happens to be there on holiday.
The Little Princess
Music
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
Mysterious Mr. Moto
Original Music Composer
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
Captains Courageous
Orchestrator
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
This Is My Affair
Original Music Composer
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Night Key
Music
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
The Magnificent Brute
Music
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
Three Godfathers
Orchestrator
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men.
Kind Lady
Orchestrator
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
China Seas
Orchestrator
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
Mad Love
Orchestrator
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Calm Yourself
Music
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
The Night Is Young
Orchestrator
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
What Every Woman Knows
Orchestrator
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
Chained
Orchestrator
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Orchestrator
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Grand Hotel
Music
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Possessed
Music
Marian is a factory worker determined to leave the assembly line behind and move up in the world.
The Cuban Love Song
Orchestrator
A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.