Ralph Berger

Nacimiento : 1904-08-20, Los Angeles, California, USA

Muerte : 1960-12-12

Películas

Cara Cortada (TV)
Art Direction
Al Capone se halla en la cárcel cumpliendo condena por delito fiscal y a pesar de ello su banda sigue extorsionando a empresarios y agentes del orden. Elliot Ness, un agente federal, junto con sus siete policías, será el encargado de destruir la organización.
The Half-Breed
Art Direction
An Apache of mixed blood tries to make peace between Indians and whites.
Una aventurera en Macao
Art Direction
En la exótica y bulliciosa Macao, un tal Halloran, en connivencia con el teniente Sebastian, un policía local, controla el juego, el tráfico de joyas y cualquier operación delictiva. Además, existe una ley que impide a las autoridades internacionales intervenir en los asuntos de Macao, de modo que Halloran se mueve allí como pez en el agua. Después del asesinato del último agente norteamericano que intentó atraparlo, la policía de Nueva York envía un sustituto. En el mismo barco que él llegan Julie Benton, una bella y seductora cantante; Nick Cochran, un aventurero que tiene problemas con la ley, y Lawrence Trumble, un hombre de negocios. Halloran y Sebastian creen que Nick es el policía y pronto empiezan a acosarlo. Julie, por su parte, es contratada por Halloran para cantar en su casino, al tiempo que entre ella y Nick surge el flechazo.
La casa en la sombra
Art Direction
Jim Wilson es un policía violento, amargado por la contemplación diaria del mundo del crimen. Su carácter hosco y sus métodos expeditivos para capturar sospechosos le crean constantes conflictos con colegas y superiores. Finalmente, para alejarlo de la ciudad durante un tiempo, le encomiendan un caso de asesinato en una lejana región montañosa. Una vez allí, su personalidad dará un giro imprevisto, debido, por una parte, a su relación con el padre de la víctima, un hombre sediento de venganza, y, por otra, con Mary Malden, la hermana del asesino, una joven sensible, capaz de comprender el temperamento y la soledad de Wilson.
Donde habita el peligro
Art Direction
Una noche, el joven médico Jeff Cameron (Robert Mitchum) conoce a Margo (Faith Domergue), que ha ingresado en el hospital después de un intento de suicidio. Aunque se trata de una mujer casada, enseguida se enamoran y empiezan a verse. Accidentalmente, el marido de Margo es asesinado. Así las cosas, deciden irse juntos a México para eludir la acción de la Justicia.
Atraco al furgón blindado
Art Direction
Dave Purvis es un meticuloso y cauto atracador que prepara su próximo golpe: robar el dinero de un furgón blindado. Pero durante el atraco, algo falla y uno de sus compinches y un policía mueren, mientras el resto del grupo consigue huir. El teniente Cordell intentará encontrar a los forajidos vengar la muerte de su compañero asesinado.
Rocket Ship
Art Direction
Condensed feature version of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. The film, which was shown outside the US as simply "Flash Gordon", was re-named Rocket Ship for its 1950 stateside re-release.
El gran robo
Art Direction
Acusado de robar los 300.000 dólares que custodiaba y que correspondían a la nómina del ejército, el teniente Duke Halliday llega a Veracruz en busca de Jim Fiske, el verdadero culpable del robo. Allí conoce a Joan Graham, la novia desengañada de Fiske, a quién éste, con falsas promesas de matrimonio, le ha robado sus ahorros. Ambos emprenderán una frenética carrera por las carreteras de México, perseguidos por el capitán Blake, que anda tras Halliday.
El muchacho de los cabellos verdes
Art Direction
En un pequeño pueblo inglés, la policía recoge a Peter (Dean Stockwell), un chaval con la cabeza afeitada que rehúsa hablar ante las preguntas de los agentes. El Dr. Evans, el psiquiatra que colabora con la policía, será con quién el chico cogerá confianza y será el elegido para escuchar su increíble historia: Peter vivía con sus abuelos, unos antiguos feriantes de circo. Un día, mientras ayudaba en el colmado donde trabajaba, se entera que una nueva guerra está a punto de estallar. Ahí es cuando se entera que sus padres murieron en un raid aéreo durante uno de los bombardeos sobre Londres. A la mañana siguiente, Peter se despertó con el cabello completamente verde. Todos los chavales se reían de él, por lo que Peter huye al bosque, lugar donde tendrá una visión: Él ha sido el elegido. Y él, el muchacho de los cabellos verdes, será el encargado de comunicar al resto del pueblo los horrores y los peligros de la guerra...
El retorno del forajido
Art Direction
Con motivo de la creación del Estado de Oklahoma, se celebra una gran carrera de libre participación cuyo premio es la porción de tierra que el corredor consiga en las vastas praderas del territorio en juego. El ganadero y antiguo Marshal, Vance Cordell (Randolph Scott), participará en la carrera para lograr un buen terreno en la nueva ciudad de Guthrie, destinado al banco de su futuro suegro, John J. Pettit (George “Gabby” Hayes). Pero esta circunstancia será aprovechada por el forajido Bill Doolin (Robert Armstrong), quien piensa ir vaciando de uno en uno los pequeños bancos de los alrededores, rebosantes de dinero en metálico por el gran traslado. Para ello, Doolin reclutará a algunos de los forajidos más famosos de la historia: Sundance Kid (Robert Ryan), Billy the Kid (Dean White), los hermanos Dalton (Lex Barker, Walter Reed y Michael Harvey)... Secuela de "Badman's Territory" (1946)
El milagro de las campanas
Art Direction
Un representante de actrices llega a un pequeño pueblo acompañando al féretro de una joven actriz que acaba de fallecer. Sólo ha podido acabar una película para la que ha sacrificado su salud. Su último deseo fue descansar junto a la iglesia de San Miguel. Mientras su representante ultima el funeral le comunican que la película no se estrenará. El hombre se siente defraudado pues la actriz, de la que estaba enamorado lo dio todo por esa película. De pronto se le ocurre una idea. Gasta todos sus ahorros en alquilar las campanas de todas las iglesias para que toquen durante tres días. Todo el mundo se pregunta que ocurre e incluso la prensa nacional se hace eco del extraño repicar de campanas. Ellas obrarán un pequeño milagro y la felicidad de todo un pueblo.
If You Knew Susie
Art Direction
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
Sin dios ni ley
Art Direction
La ciudad de Kansas está sin sheriff y la sequía del verano está haciendo la vida imposible a los granjeros. Bat Masterson llegará al pueblo y ocupará el cargo al tiempo que impondrá la ley y el orden. Además encuentra una buena cepa de trigo que resiste las duras condiciones. Lo malo es que los habitantes están abandonando el pueblo y ya es difícil retenerlos.
Genius at Work
Art Direction
Two actors who play detectives on the radio find themselves investigating a real crime masterminded by an arch-criminal named the Cobra.
Child of Divorce
Art Direction
An eight-year-old girl is an unwilling and disturbed witness of parental quarrels in her home, and when the parents finally secure a divorce, the judge decrees that the young girl live with her mother for eight months and her father the other four months. The divided life affects her both mentally and physically.
Strange Voyage
Art Direction
A group of men go on an expedition seeking sunken treasure, and wind up battling bad weather, rough seas and each other.
Dick Tracy
Art Direction
Detective Tracy (Morgan Conway) rescues Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys) and Junior from a killer called Splitface (Mike Mazurki).
George White's Scandals
Art Direction
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
La patrulla del coronel Jackson
Art Direction
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Después de la caída de Filipinas en manos de los japoneses, el Coronel norteamericano Joseph Madden se queda para organizar la lucha de los guerrilleros contra los invasores. (FILMAFFINITY)
Los guerrilleros de Chanta
Art Direction
Gay Thomson y Sara Durand son dos doctores americanos que trabajan en una misión religiosa en un hospital de una ciudad de la China. El doctor Gray está al cargo del hospital y su compañera la doctora Durand está secretamente enamorada de él. Gray vuelve de los Estados Unidos con nuevo equipamiento para el hospital y una nueva esposa, Louise, que está celosa de Sara. Pero pronto Louise demostrará su cobardía cuando después de un primer bombardeo japonés quiere volver con su marido a los Estados Unidos.
The Brighton Strangler
Art Direction
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
Heavenly Days
Art Direction
Fibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government.
Forty Thieves
Art Direction
When he runs for sheriff, Hoppy is beaten by Jerry Doyle, the gutless wonder voted for by every crook in town. When Hoppy moves to have the new sheriff impeached, outlaw leader Tad Hammond hires forty gunslingers to stop him. Stop Hoppy? Hah!
A Night of Adventure
Art Direction
A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.
Mystery Man
Art Direction
Hoppy's ranch is threatened by rustlers. Hoppy and the gang oblige as usual.
Lumberjack
Art Direction
Julie's husband has been murdered and land agents want her to sign away her property rights. Hoppy warns against this but she does so anyway. It looks as though she will be unable to deliver the timber called for in her agreement. Hoppy has to make the lumber deal happened and solve the murder.
Texas Masquerade
Art Direction
A young Eastern lawyer, seriously injured in a stage holdup, secures the help of Hoppy, California and Jimmy in completing his mission to his woman cousin's ranch in Texas. The ranch, as are others in the same area, is being plagued by a gang called the Night Riders, while the friendly local town lawyer is trying to cajole the cousin into selling out to him. Hoppy begins by arriving in the town, separate from his pals, all spiffed up and dandified, posing as the Eastern lawyer...
Una dama en el oeste
Art Direction
El Sheriff Bat Masterson limpia con dureza Dodge City. Solo permite el prostíbulo de la bella Dora, de la que está enamorado. Los problemas surgen cuando a la ciudad llega el pistolero King Kennedy quien pide a Dora que convenza al Sheriff para que le ayude en su carrera de periodista
Tarzán el temerario
Art Direction
Tarzán recibe una carta de Jane, quien está en Europa trabajando como enfermera durante la contienda mundial. Ésta le pide una planta medicinal que sólo existe en un misterioso oasis, y el hombre de la selva se dirige hacia allí en compañía de Boy y Cheetah. Por el camino se les unirá una hermosa artista de circo, quien en realidad es una espía que desea ayudar a combatir a un desalmado que se ha hecho con el poder de una ciudad.
Riders of the Deadline
Art Direction
Cuando un amigo de Hoppy muere al intentar huir de la cárcel, le echan la culpa a él y le expulsan de los Texas Rangers.
False Colors
Art Direction
Before he was killed by Mark Foster's men, Bud Lawton willed part ownership in his ranch to Hoppy and his two pals. When the three arrive they find a fake posing as Lawton. When they expose the imposter, Foster gets the Sheriff to jail them for Lawton's murder.
Bar 20
Art Direction
La diligencia en la que viaja Marie Stevens con su madre y su padrino de boda, es asaltada, y a Marie le roban las joyas que le diera su prometido Richard Adams. Hopalong Cassidy y su par de colaboradores les rescatan de los bandidos, pero ciertos hechos harán que se conviertan en sospechosos de estar aliados con quien cometieron este robo.
The Kansan
Art Direction
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.
Colt Comrades
Art Direction
Cuando deciden comprar la mitad de un rancho, Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) y sus compañeros, California y Johnny, se verán en líos cuando alguien quiere monopolizar el agua y además presiente que, en aquella tierra, hay petróleo de por medio.
Leather Burners
Art Direction
As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny sends for his friend Hoppy, Hoppy arrives and immediately suspects Dan Slack. Realizing his telegram about Slack was intercepted, he locks up the operator Lafe knowing he can escape. Tailing Lafe he finds a secret entrance to a mine and inside finds the missing cattle. But Slack's men also find him just as the cattle are stampeded through the mine shaft.
La patrulla fronteriza
Art Direction
Tres guardianes de Texas, encabezados por Hopalong Cassidy, cabalgan a la vera de un río cuando descubren que un hombre mexicano acaba de ser abaleado. Una mujer les confunde entonces con los asesinos, y apuntándoles con un revólver, consigue llevarlos hasta la guarnición mexicana donde ellos rebelarán su verdadera identidad. Después, habrá alguien interesado en Silver Bullet en convencer a todo el mundo de que realmente son ellos los asesinos.
Hoppy Serves a Writ
Art Direction
Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outlaw gang operate outside the law. After receiving an unfriendly reception when he finds them, he, California, and Johnny rustle their cattle and drive across the river into Texas. He hopes they will cross over to retrieve their cattle and then he can arrest them.
Lost Canyon
Art Direction
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
Silver Queen
Art Direction
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
Undercover Man
Art Direction
A bandit who robs both Americans and Mexicans is causing each side of the border to blame the other. Hoppy has to settle matters.
Tombstone
Art Direction
Wyatt Earp limpia Tombstone y se enfrenta a los Clanton en O.K. Corral.
Secret of the Wastelands
Art Direction
Hoppy is leading a scientific expedition and the Chinese who have a hidden settlement nearby are trying to stop them. Saulters and his outlaw gang are also in the area looking for a gold mine. When Saulters men attack, the gold mine is found. Hoppy agrees to file for the Chinese and heads after Saulters in the chase to the land office.
Outlaws of the Desert
Art Direction
Hoppy, Johnny and California go to Arabia to buy some horses. There they get involved with a sheik and a harem and a kidnapping plot.
Twilight on the Trail
Art Direction
Hoppy, California and Johnny come to the ranch of a friend and his daughter, disguised as dude detectives from the east, to investigate the disappearances, without a trace, of several herds of cattle.
Stick to Your Guns
Art Direction
Buck Peters arranges for Hoppy, California, Johnny and other cowboys to go to the aid of friends whose cattle are being rustled. Hoppy and California locate the rustlers' hideout and join the gang by posing as outlaws themselves, but must find a way to let the rest of the posse know where they are.
Riders of the Timberline
Art Direction
Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson ride to the mountains to help a man and his daughter save their logging business from someone who is sabotaging their efforts.
Wide Open Town
Art Direction
Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with help from the Bar 20 boys.
Li'l Abner
Art Direction
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Half a Sinner
Art Direction
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.
Exile Express
Art Direction
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
Cipher Bureau
Art Direction
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
Mis dos amores
Art Direction
Rita Santiago's father, Don Antonio, stubbornly refuses to give permission for her to marry Julio Bertolin, a struggling medical student, because he wants his daughter to marry a rich Brazilian. Because of this, Julio leaves medical school and determines to gain wealth and position for himself by becoming a singer.
Sudden Bill Dorn
Art Direction
Bundy has found gold on the Kent ranch but directs everyone to Ghost Town as he tries to take over the ranch. But Bill and Kent's niece Lorna have taken possession. When it appears Bundy is attracted to Lorna, his jealous girl friend has men destroy the ranch and the explosion helps uncover the gold vein.
Sandflow
Art Direction
Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day western cultists in his 1937 formula western Sandflow. Buck Jones plays the son of a crooked land dealer. Seeking redemption, Jones rides through the west to compensate every rancher who was cheated by his dad.
The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Art Direction
A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.
I Cover Chinatown
Art Direction
A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder.
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Art Direction
Buck Jones was producing as well as starring in his own western series by the time Ride 'Em Cowboy hit the screen. A heady combination of old and new, this one casts Jones as champeen auto racer Jess Burns, who reverts to his horse when called upon to rout the villains.
Dangerous Waters
Art Direction
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
Stormy
Art Direction
A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.
Alias Mary Dow
Art Direction
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
Honor of the Range
Art Direction
After Sheriff Ken puts money in the safe, his brother Clem gives Rawhide the combination. With the money gone the disgruntled townsmen make Boots Sheriff and lock up Ken. Clem, now a prisoner of Rawhide, has a change of heart and sends Ken a message with the outlaw's location. Ken escapes by impersonating the saloon entertainer and rides for the hangout.
The Fiddlin' Buckaroo
Art Direction
Government man Fiddlin' has joined Wolf's gang and Banty has become his friend. When Fiddlin' objects to Wolf's kidnapping of Ann, he is left in a burning building. Rescued by his horse Tarzan, he convinces Banty to help bring in the gang.
King of the Arena
Art Direction
Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but when he realizes that Bargoff is involved, Bargoff has fled and taken Mary Hiller as a hostage. The trail leads to Baron Petroff who concocted the deadly chemical and Ken quickly finds himself the Baron's prisoner.
Lucky Dog
Art Direction
A rich man's enemies cause him to lose his money, his best friend (his dog), as he goes to jail. Once free he spends all his time hunting for his lost dog.
La legión de los hombres sin alma
Art Direction
Una pareja de enamorados viaja a Haití invitada por un misterioso hombre que sólo pretende conseguir a la chica. Para alcanzar su objetivo no duda en pedir ayuda a un siniestro personaje, llamado Legendre, que convierte a las personas en zombis.