Gordon Rigby

Nacimiento : 1897-08-07, Los Angeles, California, USA

Muerte : 1975-07-11

Películas

Out of the Storm
Story
Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in broad daylight, Lewis gathers up $100,000 on his own and skeedaddles, figuring that the lost funds will be attributed to the holdup. Before his girlfriend Ginny can persuade him to go straight, the hapless Lewis finds himself hotly pursued by cops and crooks alike.
The Millerson Case
Story
While on vacation, a criminal psychologist investigates a murder during a typhoid epidemic.
The Man Who Returned to Life
Writer
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
Naval Academy
Screenplay
Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
Screenplay
In this musical, a con man makes a good living by promoting bogus charity shows. He gets the communities all revved up and then skips town with all their money. But then he meets three earnest people wanting to garner financial support for an orphanage. This time the con man's loyal assistant finally catches on to the wicked scam and turns him in to the police. Meanwhile, the newly reformed assistant and one of the charity workers fall in loves.
Hidden Power
Screenplay
Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely neglects his wife, Virginian, and their young son, Steve. Virginia divorces him and takes the son with her. Their paths cross again in a life-or-death situation.
Hidden Power
Story
Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely neglects his wife, Virginian, and their young son, Steve. Virginia divorces him and takes the son with her. Their paths cross again in a life-or-death situation.
Trapped in the Sky
Screenplay
In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor wants to sell his invention to other countries but his government will only allow it if the test flights fail. The prototype is sabotaged and crashes on the first test, killing the pilot. The commanding officer shoulders the blame and ends up court-martialed. He then goes to the enemy agents and wins their trust.
Whispering Enemies
Screenplay
Meet the man who stayed just inside the law with a brand new racket...
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Screenplay
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern medicine.
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Story
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern medicine.
Reformatory
Screenplay
A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.
Flight Into Nowhere
Writer
When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he ends up running out of gas and crashing. The members of a nearby tribal village save Bill from the wreckage, but arent willing to help him get home.
The Wrong Road
Original Story
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
The Wrong Road
Screenplay
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
The Gentleman from Louisiana
Screenplay
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
Hitch Hike Lady
Writer
Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind young Judy Martin. When Judy and another fellow traveler discover the unfortunate truth about Alfred, they struggle to spare Amelia's feelings.
Happy Landing
Screenplay
An action-filled film with outlaws-of-the-clouds at war with the men of the U. S. Flying Service. A young pilot, Nick Ferris, fights to track down a dangerous gang of smugglers and clear his name of an undeserved stigma.
The Golden West
Screenplay
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.
Command Performance
Writer
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
Captain Thunder
Screenplay
A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is Hungarian-born Victor Varconi, portraying a legendary south of the border outlaw who tries to force Canadian senorita Fay Wray to marry a rival rustler whom she despises. She pleads with the bandito so pathetically that he is moved to grant her a single wish. Without hesitation she chooses her poor but true love. The bandit king, being a somewhat honorable fellow grants the wish and without a twitch, guns down the wicked cattle thief. Fortunately the film was played for comedy, a wise decision since it probably would have garnered laughs as a straight drama anyway.
Dancing Sweeties
Adaptation
Bill is a hot shot dancer who partners with Jazzbo, until he sees Molly at the dance. He enters the Waltz with Molly and wins first prize - and they wind up being married that same night. Now they are free of their parents nagging and their own bosses. 24 hours - no dancing as in-laws are visiting. 24 days - the Apartment is finished so off to the Hoffman's Parisian Dance Palace. Molly can only dance the Waltz and not the hot new jazz dance so she leaves and Bill follows. They are both unhappy, Bill has two left feet when it comes to romance.
The Song of the Flame
Adaptation
This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohart, and George Gershwin. The story of the movie is about a peasant who is known as "The Flame" who leads a revolution in Russia. This peasant who is in love with a Russian prince saves his life by agreeing to sacrifice her virginity to an evil fellow-conspirator. This was an all Technicolor musical which was had a sequence in Vitascope (a Warner Brother's wide screen process)
Tantas veo...
Writer
Un vaquero llega a un pueblo y acaba intentando ayudar a un ranchero y acabar con una banda de ladrones de ganado, mientras flirtea con una hermosa muchacha.
¡Madre mía!
Writer
Al Fuller (Jolson) es la estrella de un espectáculo ambulante de trovadores de gira por los Estados Unidos. El grupo se desplaza a una modesta ciudad del sur, donde el hombre se enamora de Nora Meadows (Lois Moran), estrella del espectáculo, pero el problema es que ella ama a Westy, un apuesto miembro de la misma troupé. Incidentalmente, Fuller se convertirá en acusado de intento de homicidio de su compañero y rival en el amor.
Tiger Rose
Screenplay
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
The Toilers
Story
The Toilers (1928)
The Toilers
Screenplay
The Toilers (1928)
The Valley of the Giants
Writer
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
Nevada
Writer
Un pistolero de Nevada huye de la ley. Llega a un rancho donde se enamora de Todd, la hija del ranchero. Intentará redimir sus culpas ante la ley yendo tras una banda de ladrones de ganado, encabezada por Clan Dillon.
The Frontiersman
Writer
John Dale and Abner Hawkins are members of Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia, assigned to make peace with the Creek Indian tribe in general and the treacherous White Snake in particular.
The Auctioneer
Writer
Simon, a young Jewish man emigrating to the US, adopts the daughter of a dying woman on the ship. After he settles in the US, he eventually builds up a successful business as a pawnbroker and auctioneer. His adopted daughter Ruth falls in love with a young Wall Street broker, and her father invests his fortune in the young man's firm. However, a crooked broker at the firm causes Simon to lose all his money, and he must start all over again. He sets out to track down the crooked broker and get his money back.
Whispering Wires
Writer
A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.
El águila azul
Scenario Writer
Los jefes de la pandilla callejera D'Arcy y Ryan, que son rivales en la vida civil y están enamorados de la misma chica, siguen enfrentados en la Marina, donde lo único que los contiene es la disciplina militar. El capellán del acorazado (que también era su cura en la parroquia) decide por fin permitirles que se peleen en el ring, pero el combate se ve interrumpido por el ataque de unos submarinos. Después de la guerra, cuando la misma banda de contrabandistas de drogas mata al hermano de D'Arcy y le pega un tiro a uno de los amigos de Ryan, los dos proclaman una tregua para derrotar a los criminales, y luego siguen peleándose.
The Family Upstairs
Writer
Black Paradise
Story
In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their getaway after Jim, disgusted with his inability to find a job, un-reforms and steals a diamond necklace. Graham, a detective, gives chase to a desolate island in the South Pacific where a rum-running gangster, Murdock, holds him captive. Callahan becomes infatuated with a native girl, Leona, and Sylvia turns to Graham for protection against the offensive Murdock. A volcano eruption causes problems for all.
The Road to Glory
Writer
May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.
Adventure
Writer
David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself. Joan Lackland, a female soldier of fortune, arrives by schooner in the islands. With the help of her Kanaka crew, she protects David from an attack by the natives who are led by Googomy. Joan nurses David back to health and becomes his business partner, protecting his mortgaged property from two avaricious moneylenders. Seeking vengeance, the moneylenders incite the natives to revolt.