Melville W. Brown

Películas

Stardust
Director
Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American Peter Jackson, a high-pressure promoter who is looking for movie-producing money. He does some big-time bluffing on his own in order to get Carla to invest in a film he is making with his partner, Roy Harley. Through Carla, Roy meets actress Diana West, who is given a role in the movie, and Roy falls in love with her.
Forced Landing
Director
In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are trying to locate a hidden cache of loot. Unfortunately, something goes wrong during the trip and the pilots must land the plane in the Arizona desert during a terrible storm. There all of the passengers and crew find cramped accommodations in a lonely farmhouse where murder, mystery and mayhem occur.
Champagne for Breakfast
Director
Always-broke racetrack tout shows his true colors when setting up an apartment for his girl friend.
The Nut Farm
Director
Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies. While Bob is looking for a farm to buy, Helen is taken in by a group of scam artists who promise to make her a star. Helen's brother Willie tries to prevent her and Bob from losing all their money to the scam artists.
Lost in the Stratosphere
Director
Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But when one of the pilots loses a girl he really cared for, he cannot forgive his friend. Soon afterwards, they must work together on their most dangerous mission yet.
Fanny Foley Herself
Story
A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.
Fanny Foley Herself
Director
A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.
White Shoulders
Director
In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then begins pampering her with jewels and furs. When not attending to her every need, the business magnate works his mines so he can buy her some more. While he is gone, a gigolo makes advances upon her.
Trás las Puertas Cerradas
Director
Mary Linden es una secretaria que se enamora de un compañero que no está ni por asomo a su altura, rechazando a muchos otros, por el que considera el hombre de sus sueños, y al que llevará “sutilmente” a la cima en el mundo de los negocios.
Check and Double Check
Director
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.
She's My Weakness
Director
Tommy Mills and Marie Thurber, sweethearts, plan to marry when Tommy sells some land he has inherited. Marie's parents favor the match, as they prefer Tommy over Bernard Norton, another suitor. Her father, Warren Thurber, however, is in financial straits and plans to sell land to a civic improvement association headed by David Tuttle. When he discovers that Tommy has agreed to sell his land to Mrs. Oberlander, he berates him; but Tommy agrees to boost the price so that Thurber will win out. Tuttle, who favors Bernard as Marie's husband, persuades Tommy that he must endure the displeasure of the Thurbers, and as a result a misunderstanding arises over the sale of the land. But Tuttle's scheme backfires, and Tommy wins the girl after all.
Lovin' the Ladies
Director
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
Dance Hall
Director
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.
Jazz Heaven
Director
A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
The Love Doctor
Director
Gerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is without patients until a fond mother brings him her son, Bud Woodbridge, whose malady Sumner diagnoses as "love sickness."
Buck Privates
Writer
Pvt. Smith, an American soldier stationed in a German town during the occupation of Germany after World War I, falls in love with the daughter of the town's leading citizen. The problem is that his sworn enemy, Sgt. Butts, also has designs on the girl. Butts comes up with a plan to get rid of his competition and get the girl for himself, but things don't go quite the way he planned.
Buck Privates
Director
Pvt. Smith, an American soldier stationed in a German town during the occupation of Germany after World War I, falls in love with the daughter of the town's leading citizen. The problem is that his sworn enemy, Sgt. Butts, also has designs on the girl. Butts comes up with a plan to get rid of his competition and get the girl for himself, but things don't go quite the way he planned.
13 Washington Square
Director
In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar girl.
Fast and Furious
Director
When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an accident, he is assisted by Mr. Smithfield… When he meets Ethel, Mr. Smithfield's beautiful daughter, Tom falls in love with her at first sight…
Poker Faces
Writer
In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can't make it. Unfortunately, the woman he hires is the wife of an insanely jealous prizefighter.
What Happened to Jones?
Screenplay
La noche antes de su boda, Tom Jones es convencido por un grupo de amigos para unirse a una partida de póker, pero una redada de la policía les obliga a huir. Como única escapatoria posible, Jones se esconde en una clínica de adelgazamiento para mujeres.
Where Was I?
Writer
A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
La mujer de los gansos
Writer
Louise Dresser, una diva de la ópera, es repudiada por la sociedad cuando tiene un hijo ilegítimo y pierde la voz. Así las cosas, vuelve a su casa, pero no es bien recibida. Años después, intentando recuperar el cariño perdido, se hace pasar por testigo de un asesinato; lo que ocurre es que su hijo está involucrado en el crimen.
La llama del amor
Writer
Jane Vale es una exitosa empresaria de cuarenta años que lleva su empresa con mano de hierro. Acostumbrada a la adulación constante, un día un trabajador le propone mejoras en la producción con un sistema contrario al suyo. Ante la sorpresa de los directivos, Jane acepta la crítica y establece una relación muy cercana con el trabajador, mucho más joven que ella, que genera chismorreos.
The Rose of Paris
Writer
A French orphan who grew up in a convent sets out to see Paris. It turns out that she is the heir to a fortune but doesn't know it, and has been lured to Paris by one of the heirs who does know who she is; he plans to swindle her out of her inheritance so he can have everything.
Loafers and Lovers
Director
Loafers and Lovers is a 1920 silent comedy short.
The Pest
Writer
Naive country girl Jigs Blodgett makes friends with Gene Giles, the nephew of a wealthy judge. Shady John Harland is courting the judge's daughter Blanche because of her father's money and position. To amuse herself, Blanche invites Jigs to a party with her "sophiscated" friends, intending to humiliate and embarrass Jigs. Things don't quite go the way Blanche planned.