Lester Cole
Nacimiento : 1904-06-19, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 1985-08-15
Screenplay
Después de una ronda de vigilancia por la selva de Kenia, George Adamson lleva a su mujer, Joy, tres cachorros de león a cuyos padres se ha visto forzado a matar. Pronto los animales reinan en la casa, sobre todo la pequeña “Elsa”, que se convierte en la constante compañía y la ama del hogar. Las autoridades intervienen para hacerle ver que los animales suponen un peligro creciente, hasta que el matrimonio Adamson se decide a llevarlos al aeropuerto de Nairobi para internarlos en un zoo. Sólo “Elsa” se queda con ellos.
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Drama about the life Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer responsible for the deaths of countless Jewish people during World War II.
Theatre Play
Story
Al finalizar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un piloto de bombarderos pasa a trabajar como piloto de pruebas para un fabricante de reactores. Una mujer se interpone en su camino y le complica la vida.
Self
A brief look at The Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors charged with contempt of court after challenging the House Un-American Activities Committee and their controversial and self-incriminatory questions during the red scare. With that act of defiance, they were sentenced to one year in prison simply for speaking their minds and exercising their constitutional rights as concerned citizens. This is their story, their version of the facts, and their opinions.
Screenplay
Steve Kenet, un veterano piloto de guerra, es ingresado en un psiquiátrico después de haber confesado el asesinato de su esposa. La doctora Ann Lorrison es la encargada de esclarecer el oscuro caso.
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A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.
Screenplay
En los años 20, un grupo de jóvenes norteamericanos se exilian a París huyendo de los horrores de la guerra y de sus problemas personales. Allí llevan una vida bohemia de desenfreno. Entre ellos se encuentran Jake y Lady Brett, una pareja que puso fin a su relación después de que él se quedara impotente por las heridas recibidas en combate. A pesar de la indiferencia que él pretende demostrar hacia ella, la mujer sigue enamorada de él.
Story
Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.
Adaptation
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.
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James Cagney interpreta a Nick Condon, un reportero americano que trabaja en el Tokyo Chronical durante los años treinta, y quien muestra abiertamente su oppsición a la clara ínea política expansionista del gobierno imperialista japonés. Nick descubrirá un plan secreto para propiciar la conquista del mundo por parte de los japoneses, trama que revelará mediante un artículo de su periódico. Las autoridades japonesas exigirán la retirada de la calle del medio impreso y acosarán a Nick para conocer hasta dónde está enterado de los planes imperialistas. Pronto descubrirá que su confidente y amigo ha sido asesinado cuando intentaba salir del país con su mujer.
Screenplay
Durante la II Guerra Mundial, el Mayor Nelson y sus hombres son lanzados en paracaídas sobre la jungla birmana, tras las líneas enemigas, para destruir una estación de radar japonesa. La angustiosa y extenuante expedición a través de la jungla y los pantanos repletos de soldados enemigos se convertirá en un juego mortal en el que tan importante será cumplir con éxito la misión como poder ser rescatados...
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Through flashbacks, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed.
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After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.
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Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.
Screenplay
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper (Robert Preston) escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Story
Paul es un joven que vive encerrado desde su niñez en una habitación de la mansión familiar. Está trastornado a causa de su encierro, provocado por su perverso padre. Cuando era niño, intentó defender a su madre y éste le atacó de tal manera que casi lo mata. Desde entonces, optó por dejarlo encerrado y hacer creer a todo el mundo que el chico había muerto. Ahora han pasado más de 20 años y el viejo acaba de morir... Un hombre mentalmente inestable, que ha estado aislado durante años, escapa y causa problemas a su hermano gemelo idéntico.
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Errol Flynn es un superficial caballero de la alta sociedad. Su carácter frívolo poco hace sospechar a los que le rodean que tiene una doble vida. Compagina su faceta más exclusiva con una labor como escritor de novelas de misterio y colaborador de la policía.
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En 1828, la familia Pyncheon, que está en bancarrota, luchan por Seven Gables, la mansión familiar. Para conseguir la casa, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtiene la falsa condena de su hermano Clifford por asesinato. Hepzibah, la dulce prometida de Clifford, espera pacientemente veinte años su liberación, por lo que Clifford y su antiguo compañero de celda, el abolicionista Matthew, tienen un plan en mente.
Screenplay
Un hombre que va a ser ejecutado, acusado del asesinato de su hermano, recibe la visita del Dr. Griffin, hermano del científico que años atrás descubrió la fórmula de invisibilidad. El condenado huye gracias a que se hace invisible, y trata de demostrar su inocencia, pero la locura que va unida a los efectos secundarios de la fórmula para ser invisible harán acto de presencia...
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A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
Story
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Screenplay
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
Story
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
Screenplay
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
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The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must learn to get along and work together if they are to convince Taylor to let them borrow his boat and return to the main land.
Story
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
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Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
Screenplay
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
Screenplay
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Story
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-loving girlfriend Judy Williams in favor of sexy blonde Rose Whitney.
Additional Writing
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
Screenplay
Cappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos--his daughter is set to marry a nitwit that he can't stand, and his future mother-in-law has taken over everything and is set to merge his business with that of a rival company. Worst of all, though, is that she--in the interests of "progress"--has completely automated his beloved ship, "Electra"!. He sets out to put an end to all this foolishness and comes up with what he thinks is a foolproof plan.
Screenplay
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
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An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
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A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
Screenplay
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.
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Un joven desesperadamente enamorado de una cantante de club nocturno ve la oportunidad de pasar algún tiempo a solas con ella cuando están viajando por el país.
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No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
Screenplay
A career woman marries her boyfriend's rich uncle when the boyfriend marries her sister.
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When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's sister, who noticed a prowler wearing a glow-in-the-dark wristwatch.