Pete Rugolo

Nacimiento : 1915-12-25,

Muerte : 2011-10-16

Películas

This World, Then the Fireworks
Original Music Composer
En la década de los 50, Marty Lakewood es un reportero obligado a dejar Chicago y su familia porque había descubierto demasiada corrupción policial. Regresa a su pequeña ciudad natal en la costa de California con su madre enferma y su hermana prostituta, con la que mantiene una ambigua relación, aparentemente incestuosa. Carente de dinero, seduce a una mujer policía para hacerse con su casa y venderla.
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
Original Music Composer
Flash used to be a talented baseball player, but he took to drinking and now he sells stolen watches in the streets. One day he meets Chu Chu, who, before falling into alcoholism like him, was a successful entertainer. Now she still dances, but in the streets, for no more than a cent or two. Luck seems to smile at them the day stolen government documents literally fall from the sky. They decide to return them to their legal owners, but instead of the expected reward money, all they get is a load of trouble.
Los ligones del Beverly Plaza
Original Music Composer
Narra las aventuras de unos aparcacoches de un hotel de lujo de Beverly Hills.
The Jordan Chance
Music
Jordan Chance was wrongfully imprisoned for ten years. Upon release, he becomes a lawyer and investigates the case of a Mexican woman convicted of murder. The local police give him every reason to believe she was railroaded to ease a tense racial status quo, and they will stop at almost nothing to prevent the case from being reopened.
Foxtrot
Conductor
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un matrimonio aristócrata decide buscar refugio en la isla que acaba de comprar e invitar a un grupo de amigos a pasar un fin de semana con ellos. Sin embargo, tanto el viaje de ida como el de vuelta tendrán fatales consecuencias. (FILMAFFINITY)
Foxtrot
Original Music Composer
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un matrimonio aristócrata decide buscar refugio en la isla que acaba de comprar e invitar a un grupo de amigos a pasar un fin de semana con ellos. Sin embargo, tanto el viaje de ida como el de vuelta tendrán fatales consecuencias. (FILMAFFINITY)
Death Stalk
Original Music Composer
The whitewater raft trip of two couples is interrupted by a visit from four prison escapees who take the women hostage to aid in their escape. The husbands break free from their bonds and raft down the river in hopes of rescuing their wives.
Death Cruise
Original Music Composer
Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered.
Tres cartas de amor
Music
Tres cartas, cuya entrega se ha retrasado más de un año, cambia la vida de las personas a quienes estaban destinadas.
Set This Town on Fire
Music
After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the eyewitness whose testimony convicted him has second thoughts, and the town drunk has confessed to the crime.
The Death of Me Yet
Music
The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him.
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Music
An alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.
The Young Country
Original Music Composer
An adventurous young gambler searches for the owner of a mysterious fortune.
The Challengers
Original Music Composer
Racers compete in the Grand Prix.
The Lonely Profession
Music
Private investigator Leo Gordon is hired to trail Karen Mendaros, the mistress of a reclusive billionaire. When they meet, Gordon and Mendaros hit it off and check in at a motel. Gordon wakes up the next morning and discovers that Mendaros had been murdered during the night. Gordon opens his own investigation of Mendaros' past in an attempt to determine who killed Mendaros and why he's been set up as the fall guy.
The Whole World Is Watching
Original Music Composer
A student radical, accused of murdering a cop during a campus revolt, welcomes a court confrontation and then refuses to take the stand, despite the urging of the three high-priced lawyers he has hired to represent him in this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series.
The Sound of Anger
Music
A young man is arrested on suspicion of sabotaging the plane of his girlfriend's father, a wealthy man who despises him.
The Outsider
Original Music Composer
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect in an attractive woman's death. This NBC TV movie served as a pilot for the later series.
Código del hampa
Music
Dos asesinos reciben el encargo de acabar con la vida de un antiguo piloto de carreras. Ejecutado el trabajo, uno de ellos, intrigado, decide averiguar por qué la víctima ni siquiera intentó defenderse o huir. La investigación lo lleva hasta uno de los jefes del crimen organizado. Ésta es la segunda adaptación del relato corto "The Killers" de Ernest Hemingway. La primera ("Forajidos", 1946), indiscutible obra maestra del cine negro, fue dirigida por Robert Siodmak y protagonizada por Burt Lancaster ("el Sueco").
The Incredible Doktor Markesan
Music
Penniless Fred Bancroft, along with his new wife Molly, visits a sinister uncle he hasn't seen in years in hopes of living rent-free in his musty, decaying mansion.
Private Property
Original Music Composer
Duke y Boots (Corey Allen y Warren Oates), dos jóvenes delincuentes, atracan al dueño de una gasolinera. En el proceso, Duke se burla de Boots porque nunca ha tenido un encuentro sexual. Duke se ofrece a conseguirle a una mujer, y la elegida es una conductora llamada Ann Carlyle (Kate Manx), quien también es la esposa de un importante ejecutivo. Pero resulta que Ann tiene sus propios motivos para no ser encontrada por su marido.
¡Viva Las Vegas!
Conductor
Dan Dailey, un ranchero que ha ido a jugar a un casino de Las Vegas (Nevada), acaba descubriendo que lo único que tiene que hacer para ganar a la ruleta es coger la mano a Cyd Charisse, una guapa bailarina del local.
Fácil de amar
Orchestrator
Van Johnson y Tony Martin se disputan el amor de Esther Williams en Florida mientras ella hace sus números musicales en el agua. La sirenita Williams en technicolor en su pleno apogeo.
Glory Alley
Orchestrator
A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.
Faldas a bordo
Music Arranger
Tres señoritas se inscriben en una especie de entrenamiento en una base naval. Sin embargo, su mayor problema no son las largas marchas o varias semanas en un barco pequeño, sino su vida amorosa.
Last Hours Before Morning
Music
An ex-cop, now a private detective, investigating a gambler's murder finds that there may be a connection between that crime and the jewel robbery at a beautiful movie star's home.