Charles Schnee

Charles Schnee

Birth : 1916-08-06,

Death : 1962-11-29

Profile

Charles Schnee

Movies

Two Weeks in Another Town
Screenplay
After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
By Love Possessed
Screenplay
An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.
BUtterfield 8
Screenplay
The story about Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, who falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into money.
The Crowded Sky
Screenplay
When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn't expect his navigational equipment to fail and must adapt when it goes out along with his radio. Heading straight for a commercial jet piloted by Dick Barnett, whose plane is full of passengers, Heath can't tell which way to turn in order to avoid a catastrophe.
Until They Sail
Producer
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
House of Numbers
Producer
Story of twin brothers - one trying to help another escape from prison.
The Wings of Eagles
Producer
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Producer
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Trial
Producer
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters.
The Prodigal
Producer
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.
The Bad and the Beautiful
Screenplay
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
When in Rome
Writer
An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest.
Westward the Women
Screenplay
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
Bannerline
Screenplay
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
Right Cross
Screenplay
A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager's daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.
Born to Be Bad
Adaptation
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
The Furies
Screenplay
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over the man's choice for a new bride. Things get worse when the elder man has his daughter's lover hanged. With the help of an old flame, a gambler, the daughter puts into motion a plan to drive her father from his estate.
The Next Voice You Hear...
Writer
The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world. It stars James Whitmore and Nancy Davis as Joe and Mary Smith, a typical American couple. It was based on a short story of the same name by George Sumner Albee.
Paid in Full
Screenplay
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.
They Live by Night
Screenplay
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
Easy Living
Screenplay
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
Scene of the Crime
Screenplay
A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
Red River
Screenplay
Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.
I Walk Alone
Screenplay
Bootleggers on the lamb Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.
Cross My Heart
Dialogue
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
From This Day Forward
Writer
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.