Luther Davis

Death : 2008-07-29

Movies

Across 110th Street
Screenplay
In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
Teleplay
Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
Daughter of the Mind
Teleplay
Professor Samuel Hale Constable is a government expert in the field of cybernetics. He and his wheelchair-bound wife Lenore became parents late in life, only to lose their daughter Mary before she reached adolescence. Now their daughter's spirit seems to be reaching out to her grief-stricken father from beyond the grave, encouraging him to give up the important project on which he's been working.
Arsenic and Old Lace
Writer
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
Kismet
Book
The story follows one fateful day as a beggar-poet and his daughter cross paths with a wicked wazir, a wily temptress, a handsome prince, a magical curse, opulent sets and exotic adventure. Adapted from the Broadway musical.
Lady in a Cage
Producer
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Lady in a Cage
Writer
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
The Wonders of Aladdin
Screenplay
Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie (Vittorio De Sica).
Holiday for Lovers
Screenplay
Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by Henry Levin, the film also features Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby, Henny Backus, Wally Brown, Gardner McKay and Jose Greco.
The Gift of Love
Writer
Fearing she will die, a physicist's wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she adopts.
Kiss Them for Me
Theatre Play
Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer, the trio throw a wild party with plenty of pretty girls.
Kismet
Screenplay
A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph.
New Faces
Writer
New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then made into a motion picture in 1954. It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, performer/writer Mel Brooks (as Melvin Brooks), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. The film was basically a reproduction of the stage revue with a thin plot added. The plot involved a producer and performer (Ronny Graham) in financial trouble and is trying to stave off an angry creditor long enough to open his show. A wealthy Texan offers to help out, on the condition that his daughter be in the show.
A Lion Is in the Streets
Screenplay
A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
Black Hand
Writer
In turn-of-the-century New York, an Italian seeks vengeance on the mobsters who killed his father.
B.F.'s Daughter
Screenplay
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.
The Hucksters
Screenplay
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.