Houston Branch

Películas

Sierra Baron
Writer
La acción de Sierra Barón se inicia en California cuando Estados Unidos está ganando la guerra a México y al general Santa Anna. En 1848, ochenta y siete años después de que el inmenso rancho "Princessa Grant" le fuera cedido a Rafael Delmonte por Carlos III; el hijo de aquél, Miguel (Rick Jason), se entera durante su visita a México de que su padre ha muerto a balazos. Como nuevo patrón del rancho "Princessa", averigua que se ha descubierto oro en la hacienda y que los yanquis han fundado un asentamiento.l. Pero Jack conoce a la bella hermana de Miguel, Felicia (Rita Gam) y empieza a sentir amor por ella; y Miguel le inspira simpatía por su propia condición de tejano que desprecia a los yanquis. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Wayward Girl
Writer
Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.
A Strange Adventure
Writer
A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.
La travesía del Congo
Story
Louise Whitman viaja al oeste de África para escapar de la justicia francesa, pues está acusada de asesinato.
The Fighting Chance
Screenplay
A horse trainer and his friend, a jockey, fall in love with the same girl. Complications ensue.
City of Shadows
Screenplay
After several years of supporting parts, Victor McLaglen once more landed a leading role in Republic's City of Shadows. McLaglen plays Big Tim Channing, an ageing but powerful gangster who raises young newsboy Dan Mason as his own son. Upon reaching adulthood, Mason (John Baer) becomes a law student, with the covert (and illegal) help of Channing. Despite his checkered past, Mason opts for honesty when he falls in love with Fern Fellows (Kathleen Crowley). This decision ultimately spells the doom for Mason's mentor Big Tim.
Sweethearts on Parade
Writer
Cam Ellerby brings his traveling medicine show to town and it spells glamour and excitement to young Sylvia Townsend.
Denbow, frontera indomable
Story
Denbow es el hijo de un rico ganadero de Texas que mata a un hombre desarmado. Con el fin de evitar la horca se casa con una camarera testigo del crimen, que al descubrir que ha sido utilizada tratará por todos los medios de hacer valer la verdad de los hechos.
Bal Tabarin
Writer
Story of a girl who witnesses murder of notorious international jewel thief. Afraid that the gang will attack her, she flees to Paris.
Río abajo
Novel
Los madereros, cuyo trabajo consiste en transportar los troncos por el río, llegan a una ciudad del alto Mississippi, donde les espera un barco con su casino de juego, en el que reina la hermosa Sequin, que está enamorada de uno de los madereros. Pero también la pretende el rico industrial Beauvais, por lo que surge un conflicto entre los dos hombres.
La mujer disputada
Story
Melodrama que toma como punto de partida a los granjeros de Texas, en forma de un pasional triángulo amoroso formado por los amigos Joe Madigan (Alan Ladd), Jim Davis (Robert Preston) y una chica deseosa de recibir caros regalos (Dorothy Lamour). Los dos amigos se enfrentarán hasta las últimas consecuencias por el amor de la muchacha.
Girls of the Big House
Screenplay
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
La bella del Yukon
Story
En la ciudad minera de Malemute, Yukon, el dueño del salón John Calhoun y una variedad de personajes sombríos buscan las bolsas de polvo de oro que los mineros depositan en el nuevo banco administrado por el mismo Calhoun.
Block Busters
Writer
Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean is chased out of the neighborhood and told not to return.
Women in Bondage
Screenplay
Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government. It was directed by Steve Sekely and starred Gail Patrick and Nancy Kelly.
Klondike Kate
Screenplay
A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.
Headin' for God's Country
Story
In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.
Headin' for God's Country
Screenplay
In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.
The Blonde from Singapore
Story
Fortune hunter Mary Brooks, posing as a missionary's daughter, strives to beat a couple of pilots, Terry Prescott and "Waffles" Billings, (who have turned pearl divers in order to buy a plane and join the Royal Air Force), out of their pearls, while also beating off the advances of Prince Sali who wants to add her to his harem.
Mystery Ship
Writer
FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship. The deportees attempt to take over the ship.
The Pittsburgh Kid
Writer
Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of these was Billy Conn, who after being knocked out by Louis in the 13th round awakened to star in the Republic programmer The Pittsburgh Kid. The story finds clean-limned pugilist Conn (playing himself) being managed by pretty Patricia Mallory.
Mr. Wong, Detective
Screenplay
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
The Trigger Trio
Story
In this western, the Three Mesquiteers must find a killer and his band after they murder an official from the State Agricultural Service who had come to investigate an outbreak of hoof and mouth disease. The killer is fearful that the official would quarantine his entire herd. Unfortunately for the foolish rancher, if the herd is not isolated, all of his cows and those of his neighbors will die anyway. The heroes are assisted by Buck the clever Great Dane.
Public Wedding
Story
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
Public Wedding
Screenplay
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
Men in Exile
Story
An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.
North of Nome
Story
John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation. During a fierce sea-storm, Raglan rescues the passengers of a floundering ship, which includes the owner of the island, his daughter and her fiancée. The owner threatens to charge Ragland with poaching on private property, and then a gang of seal-skin thieves make an entrance.
Yellowstone
Screenplay
Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.
She Had to Choose
Adaptation
A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.
Emergency Call
Screenplay
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
The Silk Express
Screenplay
As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.
The Silk Express
Story
As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.
West of Singapore
Story
Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.
Duro de pelar
Story
James Cagney interpreta a un agente de prensa que se convierte en promotor de un maratón de baile.
The Match King
Screenplay
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Flaming Gold
Story
Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.
Pasto de tiburones
Story
Mike es un pescador atunero de origen portugués que en una ocasión perdió una mano, cuando intentaba salvar a su amigo Pipes Boley. Ahora Mike está felizmente casado con Quita, hija de un marinero que sirvió de pasto a los tiburones, y no se da cuenta de que su mujer y Pipes están enamorados.
The Heart of New York
Writer
A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.
Su gran sacrificio
Screenplay
La historia es la de unos granjeros de buen corazón que adoptan a un muchacho huérfano llamado Karl. Éste crece junto a Stephen, el hijo de la familia. Stephen ingresa como estudiante en una Escuela médica pero, durante una operación, algo sale mal y este hecho puede arruinar toda su carrera. Es entonces cuando Karl, también médico y agradecido por el trato que le dio su familia, acepta cargar con las culpas.
Manhattan Parade
Adaptation
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
A salvo en el Infierno
Theatre Play
Para evitar los rigores de la ley, Gilda huye de Nueva Orleans y se esconde en una isla caribeña donde los peores criminales pueden pedir asilo. Asediada por indeseables, Gilda descubrirá pronto que ha encontrado refugio en el mismísimo Infierno.
Captain of the Guard
Writer
A captain of the king's guards secretly works for the rebels.
Shanghai Lady
Writer
Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict Badlands McKinney also wants to clean up his act.
Square Shoulders
Story
Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father. What he doesn't know is that his father, Slag, is actually a thief and a derelict. Slag robs a factory in order to get the money to send Tad to military school, then gets a job at the academy's horse stables to be close to his son, who doesn't know he's alive.
Once and Forever
Story
Once and Forever film
Once and Forever
Screenplay
Once and Forever film