Tom Reed

Películas

Decisión a medianoche
Story
Un oficial de inteligencia de los Estados Unidos, destinado en Berlin tras la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), se ve atrapado en un dilema político cuando los rusos secuestran un soldado norteamericano, hijo de un importante hombree de negocios. Pretenden canjearlo por un matrimonio de ancianos alemanes, a los que buscan por traición.
Vuelta a la vida
Writer
Frank y Paul, dos siniestros buscavidas, han asesinado un esquimal para robarle los planos de una mina de oro y de paso a su perro.
El milagro del cuadro
Story
Sam, un ladrón de obras de arte, después de robar un cuadro en una iglesia italiana, planea hacer una copia para engañar a sus socios y vender por su cuenta el original. Para pintar la copia elige a Anna, una guapa e inocente artista con la que se casa.
Tres soldados
Writer
La India, siglo XIX. Relata las aventuras de tres camaradas que sirven en la Marina Británica.
David Harding, Counterspy
Screenplay
A Counterspy in the US military is killed under suspicious circumstances. His friend, Jerry Baldwin, a Navy Commander, is assigned to replace him and stop a saboteur in a torpedo factory.
Red Stallion In The Rockies
Writer
Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...
The Untamed Breed
Screenplay
A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a story by Eli Colter that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.
The Spirit of West Point
Writer
The story of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, two All-American football players at the U.S. Army Military Academy at West Point.
Moss Rose
Writer
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a `lady.'
Two Tickets to London
Screenplay
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
Forja de corazones
Screenplay
Charles "Pittsburgh" Markham pasa por encima de sus amigos, sus amantes y sus ideales para conseguir el éxito financiero en la industria siderúrgica de Pittsburgh, sólo para encontrarse abandonado y solo en la cima. Cuando llega su caída, descubre que el destino le ha dado una segunda oportunidad.
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Writer
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
Los usurpadores
Screenplay
En Alaska, durante la Fiebre del Oro, un buscador es asediado por un empresario que tiene la ley de su lado. Pronto hace su aparición una cantante de cabaret que se convierte en objetivo amoroso de ambos.
Hello, Annapolis
Original Story
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
Reclutas
Lieutenant (uncredited)
Bud y Lou se alistan en el ejército para poder escaparse de la cárcel; lo que ignoran es que en el cuartel se encontraran con un instructor de armas tomar.
Calling Philo Vance
Screenplay
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
On Dress Parade
Screenplay
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
Marry the Girl
Screenplay
Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
The Great O'Malley
Screenplay
El oficial O'Malley detiene a John Phillips por una infracción de tráfico, perdiendo así la posibilidad de conseguir un buen trabajo. Dado que Phillips tiene una esposa y una hija lisiada, decide cometer un robo desesperado...
The Captain's Kid
Screenplay
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
Love Begins at Twenty
Screenplay
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Screenplay
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
Mary Jane's Pa
Screenplay
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
La novia de Frankenstein
Additional Writing
Después de la huida del monstruo creado por el doctor Frankenstein, el siniestro Dr. Praetorius propone al científico la creación de una compañera para el monstruo.
The Case of the Curious Bride
Screenplay
Durante sus vacaciones en China, Perry Mason se encuentra con Rhoda, una antigua amiga que lo busca para que la ayude a esclarecer un caso. Moxley, su marido, que se supone que había muerto hace cuatro años, resulta que está vivo y le pide dinero. El caso se complica cuando la policía encuentra a Moxley muerto, pues ella se convierte en la principal sospechosa.
The Florentine Dagger
Screenplay
A playwright descended from the Borgias family becomes a murder suspect.
Babbitt
Adaptation
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
El hombre de las dos caras
Screenplay
Un actor de teatro de reconocido prestigio ve como su hermana, también actriz, cambia totalmente de personalidad cuando se reencuentra ésta con su marido, al que creía muerto.
Love Birds
Additional Dialogue
Un hombre y una mujer se encuentran en un rancho abandonado de California. Sus solitarias vidas cambian cuando un vagabundo descubre oro en la propiedad...
Bombay Mail
Writer
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
S.O.S. Iceberg
Screenplay
An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic the year before. This is the English language version of the German film S.O.S. Eisberg (1933), made at the same time but with a slightly different cast and released later that year. The German film is approximately 10 minutes longer.
Laughter in Hell
Writer
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
Afraid to Talk
Writer
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
Radio Patrol
Screenplay
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
Law and Order
Writer
A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.
El doble asesinato de la calle Morgue
Screenplay
A finales del siglo XIX, un sádico doctor de París se dedica a secuestrar a mujeres jóvenes para realizar experimentos que puedan ayudarle a confirmar sus teorías sobre la evolución del mono al hombre. Desgraciadamente, las víctimas no sobreviven a los estudios del científico, y éste se ve obligado a capturar a nuevas desafortunadas para continuar con su trabajo. Mientras, la joven pareja formada por Camille y el joven médico Pierre vive ajena a los planes del doctor, hasta que ella se convierte en el próximo objetivo del científico.
Waterloo Bridge
Screenplay
In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.
The Boudoir Diplomat
Dialogue
A ladies' man flirts with the wives of other governments' officials.
The Boudoir Diplomat
Screenplay
A ladies' man flirts with the wives of other governments' officials.
Oriente es Occidente
Writer
East Is West
Dialogue
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
East Is West
Screenplay
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
The Storm
Dialogue
Burr y Dave, dos íntimos amigos que se hallan en una cabaña de las montañas, deben afrontar una terrible tempestad. Pero no están solos, los acompaña Manette, una bella mujer por la que acaban enfrentándose.
Santos del infierno
Adaptation
Tras robar un banco y perder a uno de sus compañeros en el tiroteo, tres forajidos huyen de la justicia a través del desierto. El camino les ayudará a reflexionar sobre lo ocurrido.
The Last Performance
Writer
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
Show Boat
Dialogue Editor
This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel
Scandal
Dialogue
1929 picture starring Laura La Plante, Huntley Gordon, and John Boles.
The Girl on the Barge
Dialogue
The illiterate daughter of a drunken, nasty sea captain falls in love with a tugboat pilot. Her father disapproves of the relationship, and is determined to do everything he can to break it up.
Synthetic Sin
Title Graphics
Betty se muda a la Ciudad de Nueva York para protagonizar la obra de su prometido.
The Last Warning
Writer
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
The First Kiss
Title Designer
The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home, and three of his sons (William, Carol, and Ezra) are lazy, shiftless young men. Mulligan, Pap's second son who supports the entire family by oyster fishing, falls in love with wealthy Anna Lee, but when he first kisses her, she calls him "white trash."
Finders Keepers
Screenplay
Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.
Wild Beauty
Writer
A soldier returns home from World War I with a beautiful black horse that he saved on the battlefield, and names Thunderhoof. He enters the horse in a local race, hoping to earn enough money to save the family ranch of the girl he loves. However, the crooks intent on taking the ranch manage to capture a notorious wild horse and enter it in the same race, believing that it can beat Thunderhoof and thereby ensure that they're able to take the ranch.
Una noche serrana
Writer
Un joven se casa con una actriz, pero mientras su tío ha firmado un contrato que la vincula a la soltería, surgen muchas complicaciones.