Screenplay
An Apache of mixed blood tries to make peace between Indians and whites.
Story
An eccentric Civil War widow is accused of being insane.
Screenplay
Un buen hombre, siempre dispuesto a llegar a donde su caballo le lleve, aunque mejor que sea a California, lugar donde le han dicho que hay mucho trabajo, se adentra en las tierras de Nevada, metiéndose en algunos problemas ajenos. Un día visita a un viejo amigo, resultando que tiene cuatro hijos pequeños y es viudo desde hace un año. Por la noche, el padre de los chavales oye unos ruidos y se adentra en el bosque, apareciendo al de poco muerto. Se ha roto el cuello pues disparó a un coyote y el caballo se asustó y le tiró. Un buen día, resulta que hay una boca más que alimentar, una chica de diecinueve años, muy bonita, que se ha escapado del cuidado de su tío, al ser las intenciones de este un poco oscuras hacia ella".
Story
Un buen hombre, siempre dispuesto a llegar a donde su caballo le lleve, aunque mejor que sea a California, lugar donde le han dicho que hay mucho trabajo, se adentra en las tierras de Nevada, metiéndose en algunos problemas ajenos. Un día visita a un viejo amigo, resultando que tiene cuatro hijos pequeños y es viudo desde hace un año. Por la noche, el padre de los chavales oye unos ruidos y se adentra en el bosque, apareciendo al de poco muerto. Se ha roto el cuello pues disparó a un coyote y el caballo se asustó y le tiró. Un buen día, resulta que hay una boca más que alimentar, una chica de diecinueve años, muy bonita, que se ha escapado del cuidado de su tío, al ser las intenciones de este un poco oscuras hacia ella".
Teleplay
A peaceable man becomes marshal of his town at the end of a cattle trail and faces the problems of law enforcement with trail drovers and gunhands.
Writer
Deborah McCoy se mete como polizón en un barco sin saber que se trata del barco pirata del capitán Baptiste. (FILMAFFINITY)
Adaptation
Jim Garry, un jinete solitario, tiene un encuentro fortuito con John Lufton y sus hombres. Lufton recela de él, creyendo que es uno de los pistoleros que está reclutando Tate Riling, un desalmado especulador que codicia el ganado de Lufton. Garry y Riling son viejos colegas y efectivamente Riling pretende contratar a Garry para llevar a cabo sus planes. Riling, además, se ha encargado de manipular a Carol, una de las hijas de Lufton; la otra, en cambio, la aguerrida Amy, se enamora de Garry, quien no tardará en enfrentarse con su antiguo amigo.
Story
Hanna Brockway, la hija del ciudadano principal de Prairie Dog, el hombre próspero de seguros Nathan Brockway, es contratada para que se case con el Doctor Sam Martin, pero ella se enamora de Ben Dembrow, el hijo menor del líder proscrito Kirk Dembro. Ben, nada de acuerdo con la vida que llevan su padre y dos hermanos mayores, hombres duros y valientes pero alejados de la Ley, se cambia de nombre y se casa con Hanna. Pero su felicidad no será fácil de conseguir pues le atribuyen un crimen que no ha cometido.
Screenplay
El sheriff Dan Mitchell (Randolph Scott), que es la ley en Abilene, tiene la misión de mantener la paz entre dos grupos. Durante mucho tiempo la ciudad ha estado dividida entre ganaderos y vaqueros, que ocupan un lado del pueblo, y el resto de habitantes, que ocupan el otro lado. A Mitchel le gusta esta situación, porque evita que surjan problemas entre los dos bandos y le hace la vida fácil. Sin embargo...
Writer
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Screenplay
Mientras el Ranger Don Stuart se enfrenta a un peligroso incendio en un bosque, descubre que ha sido provocado. Sus sospechas recaen sobre una persona, pero no consigue encontrar ninguna prueba que lo vincule con el escenario del crimen.
Story
A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.
Adaptation
El mejor autor de novelas del oeste, Bronco Bob Mitchell, nunca ha puesto un pie en el oeste. Un artículo de prensa ha puesto de manifiesto este hecho a sus fans, y su imagen está sufriendo a causa de ello. Por ello decide lavar su imagen haciendo una aparición en un rodeo de caridad de Long Island. Mientras está montado en un caballo, un novillo se escapa y se lanza contra él. No sabiendo qué hacer, una vaquera, Anne Shaw, viene a su rescate y le salva la vida. Mientras tanto, Duke y Willoughby son vendedores de cacahuetes en el rodeo. No son muy buenos en su trabajo, y pronto causan estragos. En una de esas se esconden de su jefe en un vagón de ganado y de pronto se encuentran camino hacia el oeste...
Story
Bob Holliday, propietario de un saloon, envía a su hermano Jim al este para que le traiga a su prometida. Pero durante el camino, Jim se enamora de ella y ambos se casan antes de regresar a su hogar.
Writer
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield (Ruggles) recalls the town's glory days. Looming large in Chuckawalla's reminiscences is the day that young and apparently mild-mannerd minister Philip Pharo (Phillip Terry) rode into town. In his own gentle but forceful fashion, Pharo managed to bring the town's lawless element into line, mollify the local bluenoses, and win the heart of likeable dance-hall girl Mary Mallory (Ellen Drew).
Screenplay
Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the film was remade in 1941, Arbuckle's character, a roly-poly frontier sheriff named Slim (!), was refashioned as a supporting role, with Jack Benny's radio announcer Don Wilson essaying the part. The plot, however, remained fairly intact: Upon hearing that her fiance Greg (Preston Foster) has been killed, Janet (Patricia Morison) agrees to marry rancher Steve (Richard Dix) on the rebound. On the day of the wedding, who should show up but Greg, determined to raise as much Hell as humanly possible
Screenplay
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
Screenplay
Tod Jackson es un joven abogado que llega a Kansas para visitar a sus amigos los Dalton. Una vez allí, averigua que la familia tiene graves problemas, pues una poderosa compañía está utilizando todo tipo de tretas para arrebatarles sus tierras. La situación llega a tal punto que consiguen convertir en proscritos a todos los miembros de la familia.
Writer
Tod Jackson es un joven abogado que llega a Kansas para visitar a sus amigos los Dalton. Una vez allí, averigua que la familia tiene graves problemas, pues una poderosa compañía está utilizando todo tipo de tretas para arrebatarles sus tierras. La situación llega a tal punto que consiguen convertir en proscritos a todos los miembros de la familia.
Story
Un científico busca la cura para el cáncer con una serie de experimentos que consisten en congelar y descongelar seres humanos. Uno de sus pacientes es un adinerado tío, cuyo sobrino exige saber sobre su salud, debido a que si muere, será beneficiario de una generosa herencia. El comisario sospecha que Karloff ha asesinado al viejo para quedarse con el dinero y junto con un doctor y un fiscal de distrito, marchan a la mansión de Karloff. Ahí las cosas se complican y Karloff termina congelado, junto con estos cuatro hombres, por el lapso de... ¡10 años! La llegada de un joven doctor y su novia permite el despertar de estos personajes, y la trama se complica.
Screenplay
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
Screenplay
Tim Kerry, un honrado policía, se lleva una gran alegría cuando su hijo, Ritzy, vuelve a casa, después de haber pasado dos años en prisión por cometer un delito. Tanto Tim, como Julia, la ex novia del muchacho, y sus antiguos amigos, esperan que se regenere y se busque un trabajo. Pero Claire Morelli, una mujer que lidera a la mafia local, le ofrece participar en un turbio asunto...
Screenplay
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
Screenplay
A long-standing feud between a rancher and a neighboring wheat farmer only intensifies after the rancher's wild stallion causes damage to the farmer's property. Western drama.
Story
A long-standing feud between a rancher and a neighboring wheat farmer only intensifies after the rancher's wild stallion causes damage to the farmer's property. Western drama.
Story
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
Story
FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match only to learn that the event has been canceled because the titleholder has been kidnapped. Mac is entrusted with the ransom money, but the kidnappers discover that his fellow agents have surrounded the train station locker where the money was to be dropped and order the champ's manager to have the money delivered by an usher to a different location. With Helen disguised as the usher and Mac driving a cab, the pair set off to deliver the money. The gang isn't taking any chances, though - they waylay the cab and take both the ransom money and Helen to their hideout. Now Mac and his fellow agents must rescue both the champ and his sweetheart before they come to harm.
Story
Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a shifty shyster whose underhanded methods loses him the love of his sweetheart Anne (Nana Bryant), who subsequently marries a powerful senator (Thurston Hall). What Mellon doesn't know is that Anne has borne him a son, whom the senator has adopted. Reaching adulthood, Paul (Douglass Montgomery) opts for a legal career himself, taking a clerical job with his own father's firm. In typical "B"-picture, Mellon is charged with murdering one of his more odious clients -- and Paul is appointed prosecuting attorney in the case.
Screenplay
Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.
Writer
A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is double-crossed and framed for a murder by his rival with whom he was competing for the position of fleet superintendent in the city's biggest cab company.
Screenplay
A detective investigates a racing scam.
Screenplay
Following a long investigation, Police Detective-Lieutenant Anthony "Tony" Roberts becomes convinced that there is some powerful unknown-master-mind leader behind the gangs of crooks who are terrorizing the city, and it has something to do with paroled convicts. He sets up a scheme with his supervisor to have himself shamed by being demoted to a patrolman and then caught in the act of receiving bribe-money from a racketeer. He is convicted and sent to prison, and the manner in which his parole is arranged leads him, dangerously, to the secret-head of the gang.
Story
Following a long investigation, Police Detective-Lieutenant Anthony "Tony" Roberts becomes convinced that there is some powerful unknown-master-mind leader behind the gangs of crooks who are terrorizing the city, and it has something to do with paroled convicts. He sets up a scheme with his supervisor to have himself shamed by being demoted to a patrolman and then caught in the act of receiving bribe-money from a racketeer. He is convicted and sent to prison, and the manner in which his parole is arranged leads him, dangerously, to the secret-head of the gang.
Story
Phyllis Fowler claims to be just a "simple little country girl" trying to get by in the wicked big-city, and she takes a big getting-by step when she pulls a scam that gains her a $17,000 diamond from an exclusive jewelry store. Soon, a private-detective, who has a dupe gem matching the stolen one, the police, and two gangster buddies of the jeweler are all racing each other to get the diamond back from Phyllis. The country-girl provides them all with a wild chase.
Screenplay
With the increasing popularity of Republic's sagebrush crooner Gene Autry, rival company Columbia found it necessary to add a musical element to this Charles Starrett Western released in early 1937. As Starrett himself was no singer, the studio hired Donald Grayson to warble Lonesome River, Out in the Cow Country and Pancho's Widow, all by Ned Washington and Sam H. Stept.
Story
With the increasing popularity of Republic's sagebrush crooner Gene Autry, rival company Columbia found it necessary to add a musical element to this Charles Starrett Western released in early 1937. As Starrett himself was no singer, the studio hired Donald Grayson to warble Lonesome River, Out in the Cow Country and Pancho's Widow, all by Ned Washington and Sam H. Stept.
Screenplay
A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels.
Writer
In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he becomes a cattle rustler until he can get back on his feet. Just as he is ready to go straight, his girlfriend's younger brother is shot.
Story
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
Screenplay
A down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to defend her on a murder charge.
Screenplay
A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, they use the radio show to foil the plan.
Screenplay
A Marine sacrifices his adopted son and his girlfriend so that they might find a new and more prosperous life.
Screenplay
A fishing-boat captain's bride eyes his first mate at sea.
Screenplay
A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is implicated in a murder.
Story
A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is implicated in a murder.
Screenplay
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
Adaptation
Two men, Thurman and Beady, and a woman, Georgia, ply a confidence game in Alaska by selling 'salted' gold mines to gullible newcomers. But the cold Far North gets too hot for them and they move to greener pastures in the western United States. Business is good until a young cattleman, Tom Hatfield, falls for their trap. But Georgia falls in love with him and this causes problems for her partners.
Screenplay
Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will.
Writer
Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds considers the young upstart to be a pain in the neck. But all is forgiven-at least until next time-when Foster solves a series of puzzling robberies..
Screenplay
Steve Wayne, a daring young ambulance driver for a large hospital in Los Angeles, is a rival with his friend, Doctor Bill Barie (the house surgeon in the Emergency Ward), for the attentions of nurse Martha Gray. Despite their rivalry, Steve still endeavors to free his friend from the grip of a merciless racketeer and a gambling gang. But Steve fails in his efforts and then sets out to avenge his friend and smash-up the gang.
Screenplay
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
Story
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme.
Screenplay
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme.
Screenplay
As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the gangster, "Trigger" Talano, who frames him and brings about his disgrace; but Tim organizes a band ox ex-criminals and turns the table on the racketeer with a vengeance.
Story
As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the gangster, "Trigger" Talano, who frames him and brings about his disgrace; but Tim organizes a band ox ex-criminals and turns the table on the racketeer with a vengeance.
Screenplay
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
Screenplay
Tim Dale is the son of the president of a big-city telephone company and quits his job following a dispute with his father over company policy. He takes up polo playing. Circumstances force him to give up his polo-playing and take on the job of helping a small-town telephone company overcome a plan by a gang to force the company out of business. He calls in his telephone-company pals Bob Hall and Jack to aid him against the crooks led by Matthews and Jackson, working for crooked lawyer Thomas Benton.
Story
Tim Dale is the son of the president of a big-city telephone company and quits his job following a dispute with his father over company policy. He takes up polo playing. Circumstances force him to give up his polo-playing and take on the job of helping a small-town telephone company overcome a plan by a gang to force the company out of business. He calls in his telephone-company pals Bob Hall and Jack to aid him against the crooks led by Matthews and Jackson, working for crooked lawyer Thomas Benton.
Screenplay
El gobierno ha tomado la decisión de conceder títulos de propiedad de la tierras a quienes la trabajan. El desarraigado Jim Gaynor es uno de los afortunados pero, como es un ex presidiario, se las ingenia para ceder sus derechos a su sobrina Alice. El villano Clint Beasley, que codicia esas tierras, secuestra a Alice y asesina a su tío.
Screenplay
Durante el rodaje de unas localizaciones, un vaquero de cine ha de actuar como si lo fuera de verdad.
Writer
Un topógrafo que trabaja para una compañía ferroviaria se ve envuelto en un enfrentamiento entre ladrones de ganado. Además, un ranchero se opone al paso del tren por su propiedad.
Adaptation
Un ranchero domina con mano de hierro una pequeña población del viejo Oeste. La familia Naab es una de las pocas que se resiste a ser controlada.
Story
A policeman, working on a case against a local mobster and his gang, slips on some race-car-driver overalls and goggles and, in addition to stopping the mobsters in their tracks, wins a few races and the love of the daughter of the racetrack owner.
Story
Sergeant Carlos Olivarez (Buck Jones) becomes entangled in the machinations of an oil baron, havoc-wreaking bandits, and the femme fatale who ruined his brother.
Story
More a romantic melodrama than a true Western, this Buck Jones vehicle from Columbia starred Jones as Buck Randall, a carefree cowboy whose popularity with the local saloon girls becomes the talk of the town.
Adaptation
More a romantic melodrama than a true Western, this Buck Jones vehicle from Columbia starred Jones as Buck Randall, a carefree cowboy whose popularity with the local saloon girls becomes the talk of the town.
Producer
A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is thrown suddenly into the romantic, colorful and licentious atmosphere of a South Sea island outpost. With her inhibitions and repressed desires what will be her reaction to the charms of the sensuous of the beautiful tropic nights and the call of love?
Dialogue
A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is thrown suddenly into the romantic, colorful and licentious atmosphere of a South Sea island outpost. With her inhibitions and repressed desires what will be her reaction to the charms of the sensuous of the beautiful tropic nights and the call of love?
Story
A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is thrown suddenly into the romantic, colorful and licentious atmosphere of a South Sea island outpost. With her inhibitions and repressed desires what will be her reaction to the charms of the sensuous of the beautiful tropic nights and the call of love?
Dialogue
Directed by John Griffith Wray. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Carmel Myers, Holmes Herbert, Kenneth Thomson.
Writer
A drama of the underworld of the old Mississippi River
Writer
Through the Breakers, the 1928 Joseph C. Boyle silent South Seas tropical island seafaring romantic love triangle melodrama about a London socialite who loves a man who is assigned to be a plantation manager on a South Seas island. She agrees to join him after a year, but puts it off, and winds up shipwrecked on the island. An island girl there is in love with him, but when he dumps her for his London sweetheart, she is killed by her native lover, who then commits suicide. This causes the London lady to decide to stay!
Writer
Young lawyer John Vickery is in love with his wife, but he thinks she is in love with another man...
Story
Mistakenly believing his wife, Molly Dane ,has been unfaithful to him, ship captain Manin Dane takes his young son Joe and leaver her. Twenty years later Molly stows away on his ship and he learns the truth and all is forgiven.
Writer
A Silent Comedy film directed by Howard Bretherton.
Supervisor of Production Resources
Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, and Sam Hardy.
Writer
A young married woman in a small town is visited by her sister, a single "flapper" who causes a scandal in town with her bobbed hair and short skirts. She attracts the attentions of some of the local men, which causes an even greater scandal--which is made worse when her sister abruptly leaves her boorish husband for another man.
Scenario Writer
In Spain, a band of gypsies poach the deer in a neighboring estate. The gypsy chief, Tser (Harold Truesdale), is murdered in cold blood, and the estate owner Winston Graham (Jack Holt) is blamed. The chief's daughter Mona (Dorothy Revier) is an expert knife-thrower and sets out to avenge her father.
Story
In Spain, a band of gypsies poach the deer in a neighboring estate. The gypsy chief, Tser (Harold Truesdale), is murdered in cold blood, and the estate owner Winston Graham (Jack Holt) is blamed. The chief's daughter Mona (Dorothy Revier) is an expert knife-thrower and sets out to avenge her father.
Writer
Phil Dolan (aka Black Jack because of his talent at cards), Nancy Dolan, and a rustler all have a piece of a silver dollar with each piece having a portion of an indented map of an ore mine. Phil has to rescue Nancy from the rustlers to keep their portions of the silver dollar from the rustlers. The sheriffs's pose captures the gang of rustlers just as they reach the ore mine ensuring their claim to the mine.
Story
Scenario Writer
As a boy, Tom Morley, was forced to watch the killings of his foster parents and the abduction of his foster sister. When he reaches manhood he joins the Texas Rangers and becomes very good at tracking down outlaws; whereby, he is given the nickname "The Falcon". He finally tracks down his long lost foster sister who has become a spy for the outlaws.
Scenario Writer
This silent Western featured a group of Basque settlers terrorized by a greedy land baron (Joseph W. Girard). Jones played Buck Kildare, who, after falling for Basque beauty Natalie Joyce, comes to the aid of the settlers. On his sterling horse Silver, Kildare goes after the villain, who, it turns out, is the very same man who murdered his brother Tom (William A. Steele).
Co-Writer
Scott Sidney silent mistaken identity romantic comedy about a timid man, named Seymour White, who creates a new kind of ladies' lingerie. When he goes to Atlantic City to meet his lost sweetheart, he discovers she has grown fat and ugly, so he pretends to be "Mr. Wright". All kinds of comic hilarity ensue. This is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
Writer
A man falsely accused of murder is helped by a dog and horse.
Story
Slim Cole, a notorious outlaw, shoots at mining executive Jim King, missing him but wounding Flora Dale in the shoulder. Jim takes care of the injured girl, who, when she recovers, goes to work in his office. Unknown to Jim, Flora is the daughter of an outlaw whom Cole had killed and has secretly vowed revenge against Jim.
Screenplay
Slim Cole, a notorious outlaw, shoots at mining executive Jim King, missing him but wounding Flora Dale in the shoulder. Jim takes care of the injured girl, who, when she recovers, goes to work in his office. Unknown to Jim, Flora is the daughter of an outlaw whom Cole had killed and has secretly vowed revenge against Jim.
Story
Wealthy playboy Grant Van Gore means to have his way with his beautiful maid, the innocent Hattie Lou. He swears his love to the naive girl, and in an act so heinous as to defy belief, has the captain of his yacht perform a fake marriage ceremony. He ruins poor Hattie Lou, and then abandons her ashore the very next morning. A year later, the destitute girl and her starving baby are wandering the streets. When she sees a newspaper headline announcing that Grant has drowned at sea, Hattie Lou hatches a desperate plan for survival. She will present herself to the wealthy Van Gore's, who cannot fail to provide for their late son's widow and child!
Story
Jefferson Todd y Louis Castiga (cuñados), llegan a las manos en un vapor del río Mississippi cuando Todd descubre la presencia de Castiga allí con una mujer.
