Howard Dimsdale
Nacimiento : 1914-04-21, Sioux City, Iowa, USA
Muerte : 1991-08-27
Story Consultant
When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing village that employs human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the 'gods of the sea,' or what the men call sharks. Escaping from the forced labor camp, the trio become involved in a plot to develop a glider to drop a fragmentation bomb on the gorilla council. [The fifth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Tomorrow's Tide" and "Up Above the World So High"]
Story Consultant
Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps them to escape. In the hopes of finding a way to get back to their own time, the astronauts search for a computer in an eathquake-threatened city, with which they will be able to access their flight records. [The first of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Escape from Tomorrow" and "The Trap"]
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The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running the hospital.
Writer
Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet falls in love with a murderer; in the third, a woman falls in love with a penniless painter.
Screenplay
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
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Un sheriff se enfrenta a dos bandas rivales. Como es británico y no conoce el Oeste, decide recibir lecciones de la dueña del salón. Comedia británica en clave de western para lucimiento de la explosiva Jayne Mansfield.
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Abbott y Costello se encuentran con un mapa del tesoro por el que serán raptados y conducidos hasta la temible isla de la Calavera.
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A poor young man finds a lamp with a genie trapped inside. The genie promises to grant the man three wishes if he frees him from the lamp.
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Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), una organización mafiosa dirigida por un tal Palinov se dedica al tráfico ilegal de personas que desean entrar en los Estados Unidos. Karczag Peter, un agente de los servicios de inmigración americanos, es enviado a La Habana, donde debe hacerse pasar por húngaro y encontrar a Palinov. Durante su peligrosa investigación, se enamora de la refugiada Marianne Lorress.
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Durante un viaje, un actor es confundido con un ladrón de bancos.
Screenplay
Durante un viaje, un actor es confundido con un ladrón de bancos.
Writer
The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.
Writer
After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in order to make her boyfriend Dexter jealous. Corliss' father had also served as attorney representing Kenneth Marquis' ex-wife during his most recent divorce trial. When Corliss and Dexter don't come home one evening until five in the morning, Corliss decides to pretend to have amnesia to avoid the inevitable punishment awaiting her.
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Andy Hardy vuelve a casa después de haber luchado en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Su novia no ha querido esperarle y ya está con otro chico por lo que, descorazonado, elige irse a América Latina en busca de otra chica.
Screenplay
Tras ser herido en combate y quedar amnésico, George Taylor vuelve a casa de combatir en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. De vuelta a casa en Los Angeles, trata de indagar sobre su vieja identidad, tropezándose con un caso de asesinato de hace tres años y la búsqueda de dos millones de dólares desaparecidos.
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Determined to become a radio singer, a young girl runs away from her family. She hooks up with a man who is actually the real voice of a famous radio crooner, who actually can't sing at all.
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Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
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The president of a settlement-house group puts on a benefit variety show.
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A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.
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The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
Screenplay
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.
Writer
Alfalfa, Butch and Waldo compete for Mayor For A Day. Whoever becomes Mayor gets to take Darla to the Strawberry Festival.