Frederick Stephani

Nacimiento : 1903-06-13, Bonn, Germany

Muerte : 1962-10-31

Películas

Spaceship To The Unknown
Director
Spaceship to the Unknown is a condensed version of the original serial, compressing the original twelve episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe) heads into space with brilliant scientist Dr. Zarkoff (Frank Shannon) and his sweetheart Dale Arden (Jean Rogers) in an effort to throw the planet Mongo off course; it is expected to crash into the Earth within a matter of days. However, once Flash and his crew arrive on Mongo, they have to deal with the supremely evil Ming the Merciless (Charles B. Middleton) and his wicked minions.
Bombs on Monte Carlo
Screenplay
In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, and meets and falls in love with a Queen.
The Reluctant Bride
Screenplay
A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves in charge of a brood of wild kids whose parents, both famous explorers, are reported lost while on an African safari.
Argelia
Story
Norte de África. Jeff (Carlos Thompson) es un soldado que participa en la lucha de Francia contra la independencia de Argelia. Allí encontrará a Yvette (Yvonne De Carlo), una antigua novia, que trabaja como espía al servicio de Francia. Gracias a su impresionante belleza, Ivette Comte (Ivonne De Carlo), lleva numerosas acciones de alto riesgo con gran sutileza y habilidad para salirse siempre con la suya. Se trata, nada más y nada menos, que de una película de acción y espionaje, tiznada de romanticismo, con la actuación del Servicio de Inteligencia Francesa en un país con todos los ingredientes del exotismo, el peligro y el misterio: Argelia. Ivette tendrá que afrontar numerosos dificultades para llevar a cabo sus planes. Así, deberá atraer a un espía, pero a ello tendrá que unir el alto precio de utilizar al hombre que ama. Su recompensa pasará por prestar ayuda a numerosas empresas del gobierno.
Rocket Ship
Screenplay
Condensed feature version of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. The film, which was shown outside the US as simply "Flash Gordon", was re-named Rocket Ship for its 1950 stateside re-release.
Rocket Ship
Director
Condensed feature version of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. The film, which was shown outside the US as simply "Flash Gordon", was re-named Rocket Ship for its 1950 stateside re-release.
Johnny Holiday
Associate Producer
A guard (William Bendix) befriends a wayward youth (Allen Martin Jr.) sent to the Indiana Boys School.
Johnny Holiday
Screenplay
A guard (William Bendix) befriends a wayward youth (Allen Martin Jr.) sent to the Indiana Boys School.
Ese impulso maravilloso
Story
Buscando una historia impactante, el intrépido periodista Thomas Jefferson Tyler se hace pasar por un admirador para conseguir una exclusiva de la descarada Sara Farley, heredera de una cadena de supermercados.
Sofia
Writer
A former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and spirit them away from behind the Iron Curtain.
Sucedió en la 5ª avenida
Story
Un vagabundo neoyorquino se muda a una mansión y, por el camino, se va reuniendo con sus amigos a los que lleva a vivir con él.
She Went to the Races
Producer
Una hermosa apostadora a carreras de caballos, con un método infalible, se enamora de un entrenador.
Tarzán en Nueva York
Producer
Boy, el hijo de Tarzán y Jane, que cree que sus padres han muerto, es raptado por unos hombres que quieren llevarlo a los Estados Unidos para que actúe en un espectáculo con un elefante. Sus padres no dudarán en viajar a la "Gran Manzana" para rescatar a su hijo. Una de las más populares películas del mítico Tarzán, que cambia esta vez la jungla africana por la selva de cemento neoyorquina.
Down in San Diego
Producer
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets.
Gallant Sons
Producer
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Sky Murder
Producer
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
The Captain Is a Lady
Producer
Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only single women are allowed, the Captain has to make other arrangements. However, after witnessing their tearful goodbye, the home's residents vote to allow the couple to move in together. The Captain is a reluctant lodger, uncomfortable at being surrounded by so much femininity, and bristles when his pals start referring to him as "Old Lady". The time has come for Captain Peabody to reassert his manhood!
Phantom Raiders
Producer
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
Fast and Furious
Producer
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Fast Company
Producer
Un matrimonio librero aficionado a las historias detectivescas intenta ayudar a un amigo en aclarar un crimen de un rival también librero
Love Is a Headache
Producer
Charlotte, más conocida como Charlie, es una actriz de teatro cuya última obra ha sido un fracaso. No le ayuda mucho la columna semanal de Peter, amigo de la infancia que estuvo enamorada de ella (y todavía lo está), donde resaltaba los aspectos negativos de su trabajo. En tal tesitura, Peter, conmovido por la muerte del tipo que limpiaba las ventanas de su estudio, que deja dos huérfanos, lanza una campaña apoyando su adopción. El agente de Charlie se entera, y decide que la adopción será una magnífica promoción para la carrera de su actriz.
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Producer
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
Between Two Women
Screenplay
Allen Meighan, un interno, tiene asegurada la residencia en el Hospital General cuando salva la vida de un hombre atrapado en una explosión. Allen está enamorado de una estudiante de enfermería, Claire Donahue, y ella le corresponde, pero está casada con Tom, quien la maltrata físicamente. Claire se niega a dejar Tom, lo que provoca que Allen se case con Patricia, una mujer cuya vida salvó. Patricia se pone furiosa cuando ve que Allen está invirtiendo demasiado tiempo en su profesión y no en su matrimonio. Patricia deja a Allen por el Dr. Tony Wolcott. Después de algún tiempo, al hospital es informado de un choque de trenes, y Patricia entra en el hospital con desfiguración facial grave. Allenes ahora un exitoso médico, y Patricia se reconcilia con el. El tiempo pasa, las lesiones de Patricia se curan, y Allen se encuentra todavía enamorado de Claire. Ahora debe elegir "entre dos mujeres".
We Have Our Moments
Story
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
Amor y periodismo
Story
La labor del periodista Steven Leyton es husmear en las vidas privadas, y a su modo de ver, frívolas y ociosas, de los ricos. Un día, Tony Gateson, una rica heredera hija del financiero Gateson y uno de sus personajes favoritos, decide pagarle con la misma moneda al anunciar su próximo compromiso con el joven. A partir de ese momento, cada detalle de la vida de Leyton será también de interés público.
Flash Gordon
Screenplay
El planeta Mongo se acerca peligrosamente a la tierra. El Dr. Zarkov tiene preparada una nave espacial con la que puede resolver el misterio, así que, junto con Flash Gordon y Dale Arden, viajan al cuerpo celeste, que es dominado por el Poderoso Emperador Ming. Primera entrega del serial de la Universal Pictures basado en el inmortal personaje creado por la pluma y el pincel de Alex Raymond.
Flash Gordon
Director
El planeta Mongo se acerca peligrosamente a la tierra. El Dr. Zarkov tiene preparada una nave espacial con la que puede resolver el misterio, así que, junto con Flash Gordon y Dale Arden, viajan al cuerpo celeste, que es dominado por el Poderoso Emperador Ming. Primera entrega del serial de la Universal Pictures basado en el inmortal personaje creado por la pluma y el pincel de Alex Raymond.
All the King's Horses
Adaptation
Paramount Pictures decided in 1935 to create a new romantic team, thus cast singing stars Carl Brisson and Mary Ellis in the frothy operetta All the King's Horses. Brisson does the "Prisoner of Zenda" bit as a movie star who is forced by circumstances to impersonate a look-alike king. Ms. Ellis is the highborn lady who seems to be fooled by the ruse. The plots roll merrily onward while various and sundry musical-comedy character actors (including Edward Everett Horton and Eugene Pallette) fuss and fume in the background. Danish singer Carl Brisson had created a minor sensation by introducing "Cocktails for Two" in Paramount's Murder at the Vanities (34), but the studio's attempts to turn him into a Scandinavian Maurice Chevalier were unsuccessful.
All the King's Horses
Screenplay
Paramount Pictures decided in 1935 to create a new romantic team, thus cast singing stars Carl Brisson and Mary Ellis in the frothy operetta All the King's Horses. Brisson does the "Prisoner of Zenda" bit as a movie star who is forced by circumstances to impersonate a look-alike king. Ms. Ellis is the highborn lady who seems to be fooled by the ruse. The plots roll merrily onward while various and sundry musical-comedy character actors (including Edward Everett Horton and Eugene Pallette) fuss and fume in the background. Danish singer Carl Brisson had created a minor sensation by introducing "Cocktails for Two" in Paramount's Murder at the Vanities (34), but the studio's attempts to turn him into a Scandinavian Maurice Chevalier were unsuccessful.
Fifteen Wives
Story
Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes investigates the case and although the cause of death is described as apoplexy, Dawes is convinced it as murder, especially after he learns that Humbolt had been married fifteen times.
Drácula
Writer
El conde Drácula abandona los Cárpatos y se traslada a Londres, llevándose como sirviente a un contable. Una vez instalado, se enamora de una joven que ya está prometida. Empieza a a visitarla por las noches y va bebiendo su sangre poco a poco para convertirla así en su esposa. Pero el malestar que sufre la joven alerta a su familia, que busca la ayuda del doctor Van Helsing.