Charles Lang

Charles Lang

Nacimiento : 1915-02-15, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 2004-11-20

Perfil

Charles Lang

Películas

Tess of the Storm Country
Writer
Fourth reworking of the classic Grace Miller White novel, this time updated to the 60s, with young Scottish lassie Tess (Diane Baker) becoming embroiled in a conflict about a toxic chemical plant near her new home in Pennsylvania.
Desire in the Dust
Writer
Lonnie Wilson returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an automobile accident. He revives his love affair with Melinda Marquand........
The Louisiana Hussy
Screenplay
Cajun newlyweds must deal with the jealousy of his brother, who also loved her, and the arrival of a mysterious seductress in their bayou backwater.
Buchanan cabalga de nuevo
Screenplay
Tras servir como mercenario en el ejército mexicano, el aventurero Buchanan cabalga hacia un pueblo llamado "Infierno", famoso por sus expeditivos ahorcamientos y dominado por los hermanos Agry. A uno de éllos lo mata Juan, un joven mexicano, para vengar el honor de su hermana. Buchanan se pone de su parte y ambos son arrestados y condenados a morir en la horca. (FILMAFFINITY)
Cita en Sundown
Screenplay
Un tejano que luchó en la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865) llega a Sundown acompañado de un amigo. Su intención es vengarse de un hombre que resulta ser el terrateniente más rico de la comarca y que está a punto de casarse. (FILMAFFINITY)
Santos el magnífico
Writer
Luis Santos es un experto e idolatrado torero al que contratan para que adiestre al joven Rafael Reyes. En el Santuario de Guadalupe conoce a Karen Harrison, una bella y rica mujer norteamericana.
Captain Scarface
Screenplay
A group of communist spies plan to blow up an essential commercial artery, the Panama Canal. To this end, they have kidnapped a nuclear scientist and are traveling by steamship to the coast of South America. Luckily for western civilization, the hard-nosed ship's captain, played by Barton MacLane, has other ideas.
Blades of the Musketeers
George, Duke of Buckingham
In 1625 France, D'Artagnan joins the king's musketeers, meets three new friends - Athos, Porthos and Aramis - among them and, together, the four quickly find themselves embroiled in court intrigue with Prime Minister Richelieu attempting to sabotage the congenial relationship existing between France and England. Originally produced as a 60-minute episode of THE MAGNAVOX THEATER on CBS as THE THREE MUSKETEERS. This has the distinction of being the first movie specifically made for TV. Later retitled and released theatrically.
Raton Pass
Sound
Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks, so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western, the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.
Call of the Klondike
Writer
A brother and sister are running a phony gold mine scam in the Klondike, which leads to murder. A Canadian Mountie sets out to bring them to justice.
The Great Jewel Robber
Det. Carlton (uncredited)
El maestro ladrón Gerard Dennis (David Brian) se escapa de la granja de una prisión canadiense y se dirige a Buffalo con Peggy Arthur (Perdita Chandler), quien le proporciona el dinero necesario para los papeles falsificados. Dennis, Peggy y un camarero corrupto en un hotel de Buffalo hacen un robo en el que casi atrapan a Dennis, pero él escapa y descubre que sus cómplices lo han abandonado. Más tarde, enfrentándolos, es brutalmente golpeado y llevado a un hospital donde conoce a la enfermera Martha Rollins (Marjorie Reynolds), quien se enamora de él. Van a New Rochelle donde es herido intentando otro robo ...
Killer Shark
Screenplay
A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting boat. When his inexperience results in an accident in which his father and a crewman are badly injured, he tries to make up for it by rounding up another crew and going back out on the hunt. However, things don't turn out quite the way he planned.
The Wolf Hunters
J. L. McTavish
A Canadian Mountie follows a fugitive to a small fur-trapping community. Most of the action is handled by Chinook, a handsome German Shepherd.
Vida fácil
Whitey
Un famoso jugador de fútbol americano descubre que padece una enfermedad del corazón que le impedirá llevar una vida normal. (FILMAFFINITY)
Orden: caza sin cuartel
Policeman (uncredited)
Película rodada en estilo casi documental que relata la caza de un ladrón que asesina a sangre fría a un policía y que es perseguido por las calles de Los Ángeles. Los policías siguen su rastro hasta las mismas alcantarillas de la ciudad.
Night Wind
John Steele
A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.
The Last Ride
Mike Harrigan
Un teniente de policía se dispone a acabar con una banda que venden ruedas defectuosas a clientes que no pueden conseguir nuevas por las limitaciones debidas a la guerra. El problema es que su hermano pertenece a la banda...
Crime by Night
Paul Goff
Un detective privado y su secretaria investigan un crimen y se encuentran con una espía internacional.
Roger Touhy, Gangster
FBI Agent
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
El bombardero heroico
Soldier (uncredited)
Película ambientada durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) en la que un avión de bombardeo de las fuerzas aéreas de Estados Unidos, el B-17, combate en el Pacífico. Viaja a Pearl Harbor, después del ataque nipón, y más tarde es enviado a Manila para ayudar con la defensa en Fipilinas.
Truck Busters
Jimmy Dorgan
An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands
Guadalcanal
Marine (uncredited)
Guadalcanal sigue a un entregado pelotón de marines a través de los horrores de la guerra en el sur del pacífico. Soldados que no sólo luchan contra el enemigo, sino también contra la enfermedad, un terreno peligroso y un clima implacable.
Strictly in the Groove
Russ Monroe
College student, cattle baron, confused love story.
Gentleman Jim
(uncredited)
Biografía del campeón de boxeo James J. Corbett. Conocido como 'Gentleman Jim', Corbett se convirtió en el primer campeón del mundo de los pesos pesados en 1892, cuando derrotó a John L. Sullivan, tras la entrada en vigor de las llamadas reglas de Queensberry, que exigían la utilización de unos guantes hinchados para proteger los nudillos, un cuadrilátero con unas medidas determinadas y establecían la duración del combate... En Estados Unidos obtuvo excelentes críticas.
Secret Enemies
Jim Jackson
FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.
Bombay Clipper
Tex Harper
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
Pájaros de cuenta
Jim Joyce
Un piloto de acrobacias decide unirse a las fuerzas aéreas, pero no consigue acostumbrarse a la fuerte disciplina militar. Sus dos asistentes de acrobacias que han decidido acompañarlo tampoco logran aclimatarse...
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
The Young Engineer
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
Hit the Road
Paul Revere Smith
Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.
San Antonio Rose
Ralph
San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong cast of supporting clowns. Robert Paige plays roadhouse operator Con Conway, whose establishment is in danger of being squeezed out by its competition. Stranded entertainers Hope Holloway (Jane Frazee) and Gabby Trent (Eve Arden) decide to revivify Conway's establishment by staging an energetic floor show built around the talented Merry Macs. A rival club owner dispatches his two top hooligans Jigsaw Kennedy (Lon Chaney Jr.) and Benny the Bounce (Shemp Howard) to wreck Conway's club by posing as waiters, but the two stupes are easily cowed into submission--by the leading ladies!
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
Steve Morrison
The brash, opinionated owner of a nightclub manages to drive everybody crazy on a boat trip to Havana.
Where Did You Get That Girl?
Jeff Brant
In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs. Songs include: "Where Did You Get That Girl?" (Harry Puck, Bert Kalmar, sung by Helen Parrish), "Sergeant Swing," "Rug-Cuttin' Romeo" (Milton Rosen, Everett Carter).
Wildcat Bus
Jerry Waters
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
One Crowded Night
Fred Matson
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.