Frank Melford

Películas

El escorpión negro
Producer
Un ejército de gigantescos escorpiones prehistóricos, que abandonaron las cavernas subterráneas en que vivían debido a una serie de explosiones volcánicas, invade México D.F. un grupo de científicos, encabezados por Richard Denning, intentarán exterminarlos.
Fort Defiance
Producer
Es justo después de la Guerra Civil y Ben Shelby llega buscando a Johnny Tallon a quien planea matar. Shelby fue el único superviviente de una batalla debido a la cobardía de Tallon. Al pensar que Tallon murió, otro hombre que perdió a un hermano en la misma batalla llega para matar al hermano ciego de Tallon. Tallon llega para encontrar a Shelby y su hermano huyendo. Luego son atacados por los indios y Shelby y Tallon ahora deben luchar juntos posponiendo el inevitable enfrentamiento.
The Boy From Indiana
Producer
Happy-go-lucky aspiring sportswriter Lon Decker from Indiana who has aspirations of becoming a sportswriter meets the shrewd and larcenous old man, "Mac" Dougal during his wandering. Mac likes to ensure his bets on Quarter-Horse races by doping a horse or two here and there. When Lon finds out Mac intends to fleece wealthy rancher Zelda Bagley he sets out to stop him.
Massacre River
Producer
Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles.
Sangre sobre el sol
Idea
James Cagney interpreta a Nick Condon, un reportero americano que trabaja en el Tokyo Chronical durante los años treinta, y quien muestra abiertamente su oppsición a la clara ínea política expansionista del gobierno imperialista japonés. Nick descubrirá un plan secreto para propiciar la conquista del mundo por parte de los japoneses, trama que revelará mediante un artículo de su periódico. Las autoridades japonesas exigirán la retirada de la calle del medio impreso y acosarán a Nick para conocer hasta dónde está enterado de los planes imperialistas. Pronto descubrirá que su confidente y amigo ha sido asesinado cuando intentaba salir del país con su mujer.
Goin' to Town
Producer
General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
Cinderella Swings It
Associate Producer
Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox, entices a Broadway producer to Coldriver to see the gay musical extravaganza Baines is staging for the benefit of the U.S.O. He is also promoting the singing career of his latest local protégé, Betty Palmer. There are a few problems but the Sage of Coldriver manages to keep pulling the right strings.
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Associate Producer
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
Scattergood Rides High
Associate Producer
When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his father's business, which was heavily mortgaged and has been put up for auction after Knox's death. The boy reluctantly agrees, but when he discovers that his favorite horse Starlight is sick, he decides to bring the animal back to health and then enter him in the Governor's Race, whose $5000 prize would enable Dan to pay off his father's mortgage and keep the business in the family.
Undercover Agent
Producer
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
Barefoot Boy
Producer
A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.
The Cowboy Star
Story
Tired of being a cowboy movie star, Yorke quits the movies and buys a ranch so he can be a real cowboy. But just as in his films trouble arrives. This time it's bank robber Sampson and his two cronies.
Fighting to Live
Production Manager
When attacked by two dogs, Joe Gilmore leaves them on the desert to die. Later one of the dogs saves John Blake from drowning. Men arrive claiming the dog is killing their chickens. They want to kill the dog but John convinces them the dog's fate should be determined by a trial.