Otto Brower

Nacimiento : 1895-12-01,

Muerte : 1946-01-25

Películas

Duelo al sol
Co-Director
Pearl Chavez es una hermosa mestiza que se convierte en ahijada del primer amor de su fallecido padre, y se ve disputada por sus dos hijos.
Behind Green Lights
Director
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.
¿Ángel o diablo?
Second Unit Director
Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews) se ve obligado a bajar del autobús en que viaja porque no tiene dinero para todo el trayecto. Es así como llega a un pueblo desconocido, donde empieza a frecuentar un local de comidas, cuya principal atracción es una hermosa camarera llamada Stella. Un clásico del cine negro.
Dixie Dugan
Director
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
Little Tokyo, U.S.A.
Director
Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese espionage activities. Los Angeles cop Preston Foster suspects that there's dirty work afoot in the city's Japanese community, but no one will believe him except for intrepid girl reporter Brenda Joyce. When the spies frame Foster on a trumped-up murder charge, Joyce does a little detective work herself. The enemy agents are rounded up just before they can do any real damage. Because of its strident insistence that most (if not all) Japanese-American citizens were secretly loyal to the Rising Sun, Little Tokyo USA is seldom seen these days.
Sex Hygiene
Director
Una presentación gráfica y franca de los tipos de tratamiento de las enfermedades venéreas.
Youth Will Be Served
Director
A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
The Gay Caballero
Director
The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have attempted to steal Susan Wetherby's land.
The Girl from Avenue A
Director
A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
On Their Own
Director
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.
Men with Steel Faces
Director
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
Las uvas de la ira
Second Unit
Tom Joad regresa a su hogar tras cumplir condena en prisión, pero la ilusión de volver a ver a los suyos se transforma en frustración al ver cómo los expulsan de sus tierras. Para escapar al hambre y a la pobreza, la familia no tiene más remedio que emprender un larguísimo viaje lleno de penalidades con la esperanza de encontrar una oportunidad en California, la tierra prometida.
Too Busy to Work
Director
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
Stop, Look and Love
Director
Daughter has trouble holding onto boyfriends because of her critical mother until understanding father comes to her aid.
El explorador perdido
Director
Henry M. Stanley acepta una inusual propuesta del director del periódico para el que trabaja. Se trata de localizar al misionero escocés David Livingstone, desaparecido en plena selva africana. Cuando por fin le localiza, descubre que éste ha contraído una grave enfermedad, y que se siente cómodo viviendo entre los nativos.
Winner Take All
Director
When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him; but a reporter arranges for a real boxer to put him in his place.
Road Demon
Director
At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad. Junk yard owner tap dances.
Speed to Burn
Director
Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.
Postal Inspector
Director
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
Sins of Man
Director
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
The Outlaw Deputy
Director
While searching for his friend's killer, a former outlaw (Tim McCoy) thwarts a robbery and becomes a lawman.
The Phantom Empire
Director
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
Mystery Mountain
Director
Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of the mysterious Rattler, who preys upon railroads and transportation companies like that owned by Jane Corwin. The Rattler is especially difficult to catch because of his skill at disguising himself as other people.
I Can't Escape
Director
An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.
Speed Wings
Director
A kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the plans of a new, faster airplane motor invented by brothers Tim and Jerry are stolen and suspicion falls on their office secretary Mary Stuart. But she can pilot an airplane with the best of them and she risks her life to save Tim. And when she gets kidnapped, Jerry regains his lost nerve in rescuing her.
Straightaway
Director
Auto race champ Tim Dawson and his brother Billy are fired by boss Turnberg when they won't throw an important race to his son Carl. Pop Reeves, a competitor, finds that Turnberg had bribed his top man, Rogan, to lose, and fires him, and hires the Dawsons. His daughter Ann falls for Tim, yet it's Billy that wants her and proposes to her. She says no and declares herself to Tim. At the next big race, Rogan tries to cause Billy to smash, but he does instead, then accuses Tim of being responsible before dying. A police detective decides that Tim had done it so his brother could win, and leaves him one option, his brother must lose the upcoming Indy 500 or he'll know Tim's guilty.
Headline Shooter
Director
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Cross Fire
Director
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.
Lost in Limehouse
Director
A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.
El río Escarlata
Director
Durante el rodaje de unas localizaciones, un vaquero de cine ha de actuar como si lo fuera de verdad.
The Devil Horse
Director
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
Gold
Director
A cowboy turned gold miner fights a gang that buys miner's claims and then murders them.
Fighting for Justice
Director
Property taxes, murder charges, and outlaws trouble the son of a dead rancher.
The Spirit of the West
Director
To bring in the bad guys, a rodeo champ poses as an inept cowhand.
Law of the Sea
Director
A sadistic, evil ship captain lusts after a beautiful young girl he spots in town. It turns out that she's the girlfriend of a young man whose father the captain had blinded and cast adrift on the ocean many years before.
The Local Bad Man
Director
The Murdock's bank is in trouble. So they ship money on the train and rob it to get back the money plus the insurance, Bonner and his two pals recover the money only to be thrown in jail.
The Hard Hombre
Director
When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the ranchers to divide up the water rights. But he is in trouble when his mother arrives and exposes the hoax.
Pleasure
Producer
A novelist and his younger brother fall in love with the same woman.
Pleasure
Director
A novelist and his younger brother fall in love with the same woman.
Clearing the Range
Director
A cowboy rides by night to catch the man who killed his brother.
Camino del Oeste
Director
Clint Belmet, un joven explorador que suele meterse en problemas con la justicia, resulta sentenciado a permanecer en prisión no menos de 30 días. Para evitar que ingrese en la cárcel, sus socios Bill Jackson y Jim Bridger elaboran un plan en el que engañarán a una joven francesa, Felice para que se haga pasar por la reciente esposa de Clint y así convencer al sheriff de que le deje libre.
The Santa Fe Trail
Director
The Santa Fe Trail (1930)
The Border Legion
Director
Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the Legion takes Joan Randall prisoner and leaves Cleve to guard her, he realizes that he cannot remain part of an outlaw band and decides to rescue Joan.
Paramount on Parade
Director
Una serie de números musicales interpretados por estrellas bajo contrato de la Paramount, haciendo cosas que nunca habían hecho en sus películas habituales.
The Light of Western Stars
Director
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
Applause
Assistant Director
This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in Mom's footsteps.
Stairs of Sand
Director
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love.
Sunset Pass
Director
This Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a notorious cattle rustler.
Avalanche
Director
An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount. The callow foster-son pays back the noble gesture by running off with Holt's mistress, Olga Baclanova.
Ten Modern Commandments
Assistant Director
A chorus girl falls in love with a budding composer.
All the Brothers Were Valiant
Morrell
All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923)
On the High Seas
Lt. Gray, USN
Three castaways all from differing levels of society reach and board a deserted schooner in mid-ocean.
Excuse My Dust
Max Henderson
Un piloto de carreras abandona su profesión para casarse, ya que su mujer no quiere que vuelva a las carreras, pero tiempo después la mujer le abandona con su hijo. Cuando el hijo se encuentra enfermo en San Francisco, el piloto usará un coche último modelo para juntarse con su familia al otro lado del país.