Ralph Gilbert Bettison

Películas

1984
Screenplay
En 1984, Londres está gobernada por el partido totalitario del Gran Hermano. La intimidad y la libertad de pensamiento no existen. Las relaciones sexuales constituyen un delito. Winston Smith trabaja en los archivos del Ministerio de la Verdad reescribiendo y modificando la Historia. Su vida se verá seriamente amenazada cuando empiece a darse cuenta de que sus pensamientos no son tan ortodoxos como el Partido exige; además tiene una relación amorosa clandestina con Julia, una joven del departamento de novelas afiliada a la Liga Antisexo. Ambos saben que tendrán que pagar un precio muy alto por el crimen que están cometiendo y que no hay escapatoria posible.
La espada de Montecristo
Adaptation
Francia está gobernada por Luis Napoleón, pero éste se ha convertido en un títere de su hermano bastardo La Roche. Lady Cristina lidera a un grupo de patriotas que quieren restaurar las antiguas libertades y que utilizarán la herencia de Montecristo para llevarlo a cabo. (FILMAFFINITY)
El Temible Robin Hood
Story
El hijo de Robin Hood, convertido en noble, tiene que continuar la tradición que empezó su difunto padre, cuando el rey Juan sube brutalmente los impuestos.
South of the Rio Grande
Writer
The Kid (Duncan Renaldo) masquerades as a government inspector in this pleasant, and pleasantly tuneful, Cisco Kid series entry. Learning that his old friends have been killed and Manuel Gonzales (Tito Renaldo) wrongly accused of cattle rustling by corrupt district officer Miguel Sanchez (George J. Lewis), the Kid assumes the identity of the murdered government official.
Headline
Adaptation
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
Phantom of Chinatown
Story
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.
Traitor Spy
Screenplay
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
Rose of the Rio Grande
Screenplay
The story, based on a novel by Johnston (Zorro) McCulley, concerns a group of aristocratic vigilantes, who go about trying to restore their prominence in Mexico by killing anyone who stands in their way.
Night Ride
Scenario Writer
Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of business, from sending his pretty daughter to seduce them to having his henchmen sabotage their trucks.
En el ejército de su majestad la reina
Screenplay
Viéndose acusado de un asesinato que no cometió, Jimmy, un ladrón de poca monta, huye a Inglaterra. Allí se enrola en el ejército y se enamora de Sally, la bella hija de su sargento. Cuando el regimiento es enviado a China para luchar contra unos bandidos, tendrá que demostrar su valentía para poder conquistarla.
Down River
Writer
Un investigador de aduanas y su prometida rastrean a una banda de contrabandistas cuyo líder puede ser un asesino.
The Great Game
Writer
Set in Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge football ground and featuring appearances from many real-life players from the day, this is the first film to feature football as its central theme and is recognisably modern and authentic. It deals with the day to day dramas, conflicts and love interests of players and managers in the run-up to the Cup Final.
Greek Street
Writer
A Soho restaurateur's protégé becomes a star.
The Night Porter
Scenario Writer
George, the inebriate night porter at the Hotel Splendide, develops a series of increasingly outlandish suspicions about Billy and Percy, two guests who have arrived separately yet claim to be a married couple and demand to share a room together.