Jo Pagano

Birth : 1906-02-05, Denver, Colorado, USA

Death : 1982-03-23

Movies

Yaqui Drums
Writer
In this western, a Mexican bandit and an angry rancher team up and take on a crooked saloon keeper.
Jungle Moon Men
Story
Priestess Oma is forever young in this Jungle Jim knockoff of "She" or the La of Opar stories from "Tarzan". The Jungle Jim-type character is played by Weissmuller using his own name.
Jungle Moon Men
Screenplay
Priestess Oma is forever young in this Jungle Jim knockoff of "She" or the La of Opar stories from "Tarzan". The Jungle Jim-type character is played by Weissmuller using his own name.
Security Risk
Screenplay
An FBI agent on vacation in the mountains begins to suspect that a Communist spy ring may be operating in the area.
Murder Without Tears
Story
A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it.
Murder Without Tears
Screenplay
A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it.
The Sound of Fury
Writer
A family man -desperate for a job- latches onto a friend that encourages him into being a criminal.
The Sound of Fury
Novel
A family man -desperate for a job- latches onto a friend that encourages him into being a criminal.
Thunder in the Pines
Story
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.
Jungle Goddess
Screenplay
When a plane carrying the daughter of a millionaire crashes in an African jungle, two pilots set out to collect the reward. They discover that she has become the goddess of a primitive tribe. An insurgent witch doctor and fierce wild animals make escape from the jungle difficult for the trio.
Adventures in Silverado
Screenplay
Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures a hooded highwayman called The Monk. Supposedly inspired by a true incident, this offbeat Western based on Stevenson's The Silverado Squatters is a dandy, high-spirited adventure yarn.
The Man I Love
Adaptation
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
Too Young to Know
Screenplay
A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.
Hotel Berlin
Screenplay
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany.
Leather Burners
Screenplay
As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny sends for his friend Hoppy, Hoppy arrives and immediately suspects Dan Slack. Realizing his telegram about Slack was intercepted, he locks up the operator Lafe knowing he can escape. Tailing Lafe he finds a secret entrance to a mine and inside finds the missing cattle. But Slack's men also find him just as the cattle are stampeded through the mine shaft.
The Rookie Cop
Screenplay
A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's objection to his use of a trained German Shepherd dog named Ace.
Almost a Gentleman
Screenplay
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
Tarnished Angel
Writer
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.