William Rankin

Películas

Huracán de emociones
Theatre Play
El sargento de marines James O`Hearn, se encuentra ante un consejo de guerra, acusado de deserción y unos cuantos cargos más o igual de graves, y se verá obligado a contar su increíble historia que le ha llevado hasta esta situación.
Fighting Father Dunne
Story
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
Las chicas de Harvey
Story
Un espumoso musical sobre las desventuras románticas de las muchachas de Harvey, camareras empleadas de la cadena de restaurantes Old West Harvey Restaurant.
Hi, Beautiful
Story
Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a Bungalow. Patty Callahan (O'Driscoll) offers residence in a model home to soldier Jeff (Beery) and soon falls in love with him. Although the pair are unmarried, they enter a marital contest intended to celebrate the "Happiest G.I. Couple." Winning the contest brings on all sorts of farcical troubles until the couple are able to be united for real. Songs include "Don't Sweetheart Me" and "Best of All."
Dixie
Story
Un joven compositor abandona su Kentucky natal para triunfar en Nueva Orleans. Acaba en nueva York, donde vende sus canciones a una editora musical, pero se niega a vender su más atesorada canción, "Dixie".
Street of Missing Men
Story
An ex-con vows vengeance on the newspaper responsible for putting him behind bars, but has a change of heart when another racketeer threatens to bring the paper down..
St. Louis Blues
Story
Dotty (Dorothy Lamour) es una estrella de Broadway que decide abandonar su profesión y vivir aislada en una pequeña ciudad.
A Girl with Ideas
Story
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
Love in a Bungalow
Original Story
A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautiful! (1944), both from the story "Be It Ever So Humble," by Eleanore Griffin and William Rankin.
Pennies from Heaven
Story
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.
Counterfeit
Writer
A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.
Tess of the Storm Country
Writer
When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is a bit dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves he himself.