Roy Chanslor

Nacimiento : 1899-08-25,

Muerte : 1964-04-16

Películas

La ingenua explosiva
Novel
El rancho familiar de Catherine "Cat" Balou (Jane Fonda) se ve amenazado por la inminente llegada del ferrocarril. La joven maestra de escuela, empeñada en conservar sus raíces, busca la ayuda de Kid Shelleen (Lee Marvin), pero descubre que es el pistolero más borracho de todo el Oeste. Cuando su padre muere asesinado por matones a sueldo de la compañía del ferrocarril, ella jura vengarse.
Johnny Guitar
Novel
La relación sentimental entre Vienna, la propietaria de un salón situado en las afueras de una ciudad del Oeste, y Johnny Guitar, un pistolero con el que se vuelve a encontrar en un difícil momento, constituye todo un clásico que alcanzó un gran éxito de taquilla.
The Steel Key
Story
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
The House Across the Street
Story
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.
Hazard
Novel
Como parte de una apuesta, un jugador compulsivo acepta casarse con el ganador, un jugador profesional. Antes de que él pueda "cobrar", ella se escapa de la ciudad. El jugador contrata a un detective privado para localizarla y poder cobrar sus "ganancias".
Hazard
Screenplay
Como parte de una apuesta, un jugador compulsivo acepta casarse con el ganador, un jugador profesional. Antes de que él pueda "cobrar", ella se escapa de la ciudad. El jugador contrata a un detective privado para localizarla y poder cobrar sus "ganancias".
Michigan Kid
Screenplay
A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
Michigan Kid
Story
A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
The Vigilantes Return
Screenplay
Marshal Johnnie Taggart (Jon Hall) , posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright of the infamous Bull Whip saloon. But "bad-girl" Kitty keeps her mouth shut. When Johnnie's pal Andy reports a stage holdup, Curtwright's henchman, Ben Borden, talks the sheriff and Judge Holden into suspecting Johnnie. Johnnie reveals himself to Judge Holden as a government marshal, and the judge voices his opinion that Curtwright is the leader of the road agents, but voices it in the presence of his granddaughter, Louise Holden. The Judge doesn't know that Louise is in love with Curtwright, and she tips him off as to Johnnie's real identity. Curtwright frames Johnnie for a murder and arranges for the crooked sheriff to promote a lynching and Andy and Kitty help Johnnie escape jail. Johnnie rounds up vigilantes and heads for a showdown at the Bull Whip saloon
Ángel negro
Screenplay
Hollywood, años 40. La policía encuentra en un apartamento el cadáver de la cantante y "femme fatale" Mavis Marlowe. El principal sospechoso es Kira Bennett, antiguo amante de la mujer. Cuando la policía averigua que Mavis había estado chantajeando a Bennett, éste es arrestado y condenado a muerte. Su esposa y el marido alcohólico de Mavis son los únicos que creen en su inocencia y se unirán para descubrir al auténtico culpable en una auténtica carrera contrarreloj.
Strange Conquest
Writer
Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.
Perilous Holiday
Writer
A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart, who is working on a story to expose racketeering night-club owner Doc Lilley.
The Daltons Ride Again
Screenplay
The notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave, they learn of a friend whose land is about to be seized by a greedy land company. Before they can help, the man is killed by a company assassin. The brothers do manage to rescue his widow and head for the hills. There, they decide to revert back to outlaw life. Meanwhile, a newspaper publisher's daughter falls for one of the brothers.
La casa del miedo
Screenplay
Sherlock Holmes investiga una serie de asesinatos ocurridos en un castillo. Lo más sorprendente es que todas las víctimas tienen pepitas de naranja en la boca.
Destiny
Screenplay
Framed for two crimes he didn't commit, and betrayed by his girl, Cliff Banks finds himself on the run from the police. Now distrustful of everyone, he finds a safe haven hiding out at a quaint country cottage under the care of a kindly old farmer and his daughter, a Cinderella-like blind woman who seems to be able to communicate with nature. There he is forced by their love to question his misanthropy.
Secret Command
Writer
Secret Command features Pat O'Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime employ of the FBI. Under an assumed name, O'BRIEN goes to work at a shipyard, intending to keep both eyes open for potential saboteurs. To maintain the cover, O'BRIEN is given a "wife" (Carole Landis) and two children. When O'BRIEN's brother Chester Morris shows up, he can't comprehend the charade and nearly spills the beans to the Nazi spies O'BRIEN hopes to trap. Based on the short story The Saboteurs by John and Ward Hawkins, Secret Command offers a graying but still feisty Pat O'Brien doing what he does best.
Idaho
Screenplay
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
El triunfo de Tarzán
Screenplay
Poco después de la partida de Jane Parker hacia Inglaterra, Tarzán y su hijo Boy reciben la petición de ayuda de Zandra, hija del rey de la ciudad perdida de Palandria, cuyo pueblo acaba de ser invadido y esclavizado por tropas nazis. Sin embargo, Tarzán decide permanecer al margen y se limita a "confiscar" una radio portátil de los alemanes. Pero cuando un destacamento de soldados al mando del coronel nazi Von Reichart, buscando la radio, secuestra a Boy, Tarzán decide romper su aislamiento y combatir al III Reich, que amenaza expandirse por su selva.
The Navy Comes Through
Screenplay
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
You Can't Escape Forever
Story
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
Drums of the Congo
Screenplay
A safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle.
Escape from Hong Kong
Screenplay
Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.
Unseen Enemy
Screenplay
The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront café. To make enough money to ensure his daughter Gen's (Irene Hervey) entree into society, Nick sells his services to a gang of foreign spies, who then use Nick's establishment as a rendezvous point. The plan is to covertly send out a Japanese vessel for the purpose of raiding and destroying American merchant ships. The spies' secret code is hidden in the lyrics of a song called "Lydia", which the unwitting Gen performs on request day after day.
Treat 'Em Rough
Screenplay
When his father is accused of graft, a former boxer returns home to clear his name.
Bombay Clipper
Screenplay
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
Flying Cadets
Screenplay
Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
Burma Convoy
Screenplay
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.
Washington Melodrama
Screenplay
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
Golden Hoofs
Story
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
Double Alibi
Screenplay
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Framed
Writer
A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.
Honeymoon Deferred
Story
Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder, which could also be a suicide, in which case his company won't have to pay the victim's contract. His wife, played by Margaret Lindsay, insists on following him around, not only to help him solve the case, but to make sure he doesn't get too friendly with any members of the opposite sex, either.
Honeymoon Deferred
Screenplay
Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder, which could also be a suicide, in which case his company won't have to pay the victim's contract. His wife, played by Margaret Lindsay, insists on following him around, not only to help him solve the case, but to make sure he doesn't get too friendly with any members of the opposite sex, either.
One Hour To Live
Writer
Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.
The Devil's Party
Screenplay
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
The Nurse from Brooklyn
Screenplay
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name.
Goodbye Broadway
Screenplay
Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.
Love Is on the Air
Story
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
Wine, Women and Horses
Screenplay
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
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.
California Mail
Screenplay
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.
Here Comes Carter
Screenplay
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
The Girl on the Front Page
Story
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
Bengal Tiger
Screenplay
After causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone.
Murder by an Aristocrat
Screenplay
A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it.
Times Square Playboy
Screenplay
A stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding.
Man Hunt
Screenplay
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
La que apostó su amor
Screenplay
Cuando la reportera Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis) se desmaya al presenciar la ejecución de una mujer que asesinó a su amante, su novio Curt Devlin (Goerge Brent), que trabaja en el periódico rival, trata de convencerla de que el periodismo es cosa de hombres y de que su lugar está en la tranquilidad del hogar. Pero Ellen no se deja persuadir; le asegura que una mujer puede hacer tan buenos reportajes como un hombre y, además, está dispuesta a demostrárselo.
Murder in the Clouds
Screenplay
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
Murder in the Clouds
Story
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
¿Qué hay, Nellie?
Story
En esta ocasión, Paul Muni –especializado en papeles de gángster– intentó un cambio de registro al encarnar al editor de un periódico que, firmando con el pseudónimo de Nellie, comienza a investigar por su cuenta el asesinato de un banquero. Sus pesquisas le llevarán hasta los bajos fondos, donde conoce a algunos mafiosos y a la rubia de rigor (Glenda Farrell).
The Final Edition
Story
A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.
Fifty Fathoms Deep
Writer
In this high-seas adventure, a woman creates a great rift between old friends: an experienced older diver, and his younger protege. They become enemies when a gold-digger marries the latter. She soon leaves him in favor of a wealthy yachtsman. She is aboard his boat when an accident occurs. The two divers must salvage the costly boat before it sinks.