Gordon Wiles
Nacimiento : 1904-10-10, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Muerte : 1950-10-17
Historia
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Gordon Wiles (October 10, 1904 – October 17, 1950) was an American art director and film director. He won an Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film Transatlantic. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His father, Albert Wiles, was a doctor in Jerseyville, Illinois.
Art Direction
Después de ser despedido del periódico donde trabaja, Mike Reese se hace socio de un pequeño periódico de provincias en donde intenta poner en práctica los métodos de la prensa de la gran ciudad. Un asesinato en el que está envuelto un magnate de la prensa será la oportunidad perfecta para sus planes.
Production Design
Harry Musk is one in a million. That means that he's the one out of a million children who is perfectly proportioned but will never grow larger than a typical six-year-old. Adult, pint-sized Harry longs to be part of the big world.
Production Design
En 1899, un agente americano es enviado al Oeste tras la pista de una banda de asaltadores de trenes. Para llegar al cerebro de la banda tendrá que ganarse primero la amistad de Lil, una bella bailarina.
Production Design
Bart Tare, un veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), es un hombre emocionalmente desequilibrado que desde que era niño vive obsesionado con las armas. Cuando conoce a Annie, una mujer fatal, se deja arrastrar al mundo del crimen. Unidos por su afición a las armas, la relación de la pareja desemboca, entre atraco y atraco, en un torbellino de pasiones y situaciones peligrosas.
Production Design
In this second film in the "Bomba, the Jungle Boy" series, Bomba tracks a dangerous panther.
Art Direction
Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and becomes the foe of the notorious Pecos Kid, the captive of Paiutes, the target in a saloon showdown, and the lone source of the whereabouts of a fabulous gold strike.
Director
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
Production Design
El escritor Georges Duroy (George Sanders) pasa por un momento difícil cuando se encuentra con su antiguo compañero de regimiento, Charles Forestier, quien le invita a trabajar con él en su periódico. Duroy no tarda en hacerse un lugar con la ayuda de Madeleine Forestier (Ann Dvorak), la esposa de Charles, y pronto tendrá tiempo para dedicarse a enamorar a mujeres bien posicionadas, con lo que se abrirá paso en el éxito que tanto ansía.
Production Design
Autobiografía de François Eugène Vidocq, legendario ladrón del siglo XVIII. Vidocq nació en una cárcel francesa en 1775 y llegó incluso a ser nombrado jefe de la policía de París, pero durante todo ese tiempo no dejó de ser un singular y elegante delincuente.
Production Design
Charles Strickland es un agente de bolsa, casado, con dos hijos, y sin conflicto visible con su familia. Un día cualquiera, la esposa encuentra una nota donde su esposo le anuncia que se ha separado y que se ha marchado para siempre a París. Cuando todo el mundo presupone que lo ha hecho por otra mujer, Geoffrey Wolfe, un escritor que se ha acaba de hacer amigo de la familia Strickland, comprueba que el motivo de su huida es otro muy especial. Pasión y vocación de un personaje inspirado en la vida del polémico pintor Paul Gauguin.
Director
On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort.
Set Decoration
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
Director
Gangsters plan an assassination of a rival while he rides the train carrying him to prison.
Director
A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.
Director
A fast-talking, street-wise con-man forsakes the tank-towns of Pennsylvania for the greener pastures in Manhattan, and gains fame-and-fortune as New York City's number one merchandise promoter. A model and a society girl provide some complications along the way.
Director
A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.
Director
A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer tries to track her down and silence her.
Director
Mickey, is a prizefighter whose bright career hits the skids when he comes under the guidance of Ginger, a female fight promoter, when he becomes involved with June Prentice and her high-society crowd.
Director
Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.
Director
En esta ocasión el detective oriental Charlie Chan resuelve el caso de una heredera a quien se presume muerta, aparece sana y salva y posteriormente es asesinada de verdad. (FILMAFFINIT)
Art Direction
El presidente Roosevelt nombra nuevo Secretario de Diversiones a un productor teatral, con el fin de levantar los ánimos del pueblo estadounidense. El nuevo secretario pronto se harta de los grupos de presión que intentan destruir su departamento.
Art Direction
Tracy interpreta a un promotor que decide ayudar a una muchacha en su carrera como actriz. Cuando ella se convierte en una gran estrella, se enamora de Tracy, a pesar de tener muchos otros pretendientes.
Art Direction
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
Art Direction
Hay una bomba oculta en un transatlántico, pero nadie a bordo conoce su existencia.
Art Direction
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
Art Direction
Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.
Art Direction
Un policía y una camarera se enamoran; el único problema es que él tendrá que ayudar y proteger a la hermana de su novia, que está liada con un gángster.
Art Direction
A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties. She begins helping him and regains her lost wealth and posh lifestyle.
Art Direction
Johnny se está entrenando para el campeonato de boxeo. Judy le distrae, de modo que su manager le deja plantado. Y también Judy.
Art Direction
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
Art Direction
As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.
Art Department Manager
Un granjero convive felizmente en el campo con su esposa. Pero la aparición de una seductora mujer de la ciudad hace que comience a enamorarse de ésta, y a pensar que su mujer es un estorbo que se interpone en la felicidad entre él y su nueva y sofisticada amante.
