Jack Moffitt

Nacimiento : 1901-05-08, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Muerte : 1969-12-04

Historia

Mack Moffitt is best known for being an American screenwriter. He Died on December 4, 1969, aged 68 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

Películas

In It for Love
Director
A surreal glimpse into the mind of a 1960s housewife reveals her deepest desire, a story set in the late 80s UK shows the vital role the lesbian community had during the height of the AIDS epidemic and four mums to a teenage girl set a plan to have 'the talk' with their blossoming daughter. Five stories of sapphic love set across different eras in time.
The Story of Will Rogers
Adaptation
Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers
La mujer de fuego
Screenplay
En una comarca ganadera del Medio Oeste americano se reproduce la eterna guerra entre vaqueros y ovejeros. Worl, un ovejero que pretende asentarse en el lugar, se ve obligado a abandonar sus tierras. El problema es que está ligado sentimentalmente a Connie, la hija del ranchero que lo ha expulsado. Con el apoyo del ayudante de Worl, Connie se enfrentará a su padre.
Murder, He Says
Story
Pete Marshall es un encuestador que se verá envuelto en la búsqueda de 70.000$ escondidos de un atraco a un banco sucedido muchos años antes. Su investigación le conducirá hasta un pueblo rural donde se topará con la familia Fleagle. Bert y Mert, que se dedican a espantar fisgones con sus rifles.
The conspirators
Additional Dialogue
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundiial (1939-1945), el holandés Vincent Van Der Lyn, se ve obligado a huir a la neutral Lisboa para escapar de los nazis. Allí conoce a un pequeño grupo de conspiradores, cuyo líder Ricardo Quintanilla, que sabe que entre ellos hay un espía de los nazis, pide ayuda a Van Der Lyn para identificar al traidor.
Pasaje para Marsella
Screenplay
Un francés que lucha en las fuerzas aéreas con base en Gran Bretaña confiesa, después de ser presionado, que ha escapado de la Isla del Diablo y en realidad quiere volver a Francia. Por otro lado, un periodista que está indagando sobre la guerra en el bando de los aliados descubre oscuros intereses militares.
La rueda de la fortuna
Original Story
Lynn Hollister es un letrado que trata de averiguar lo que se oculta tras el asesinato de un amigo. Su principal sospechoso es Tom Cameron, pero Hollister pronto se enamorará de Sabra, la hija de éste.
Melody Ranch
Screenplay
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
Our Leading Citizen
Screenplay
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
I'm from Missouri
Writer
Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops. He is accompanied by his ritzy wife Julie who has high society aspirations and hopes to have her younger sister Lola Pike marry a British diplomat. Complicating matters is a business rival, Porgie Rowe, who is trying to sell tractors to the government and keeps knocking Sweeney's prize Missouri mules.
St. Louis Blues
Writer
Dotty (Dorothy Lamour) es una estrella de Broadway que decide abandonar su profesión y vivir aislada en una pequeña ciudad.
Ride a Crooked Mile
Writer
The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison.
Fiesta en el trópico
Story
Un guionista de Hollywood busca inspiración para su próxima película en México, donde se topa con una bella muchacha local que le echa los tejos.
Fiesta en el trópico
Screenplay
Un guionista de Hollywood busca inspiración para su próxima película en México, donde se topa con una bella muchacha local que le echa los tejos.
Doble o nada
Screenplay
Un millonario moribundo da instrucciones a su abogado de soltar cuatro carteras en las calles de Nueva York. Cuatro personas honestas las encuentran y se las devuelven al abogado. Bajo los términos del testamento, a cada uno de ellos se les da 1 millón de dólares, los cuales deberán duplicar en los 30 siguientes días para reclamar todo su patrimonio.
Exclusive
Story
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
Exclusive
Screenplay
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
Mountain Music
Screenplay
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.
Night Key
Screenplay
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
Rhythm on the Range
Screenplay
Comedia musical en la cual un cowboy (Bing Crosby) regresa a su tierra después de algunos años, enamorándose de una rica ranchera (Frances Farmer).
Aeropuerto Central
Writer
El aviador Jim Blaine y su hermano Neil no sólo son rivales en sus temerarios vuelos, sino que además luchan por el amor de la paracaidista Jill Collins.