John Wexley

出生 : 1907-09-14,

死亡 : 1985-02-04

参加作品

The Last Mile
Theatre Play
Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches.
The Long Night
Writer
City police surround a building attempting to capture a suspected murder. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
Cornered
Adaptation
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
Cornered
Story
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
Hangmen Also Die!
Screenplay
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Footsteps in the Dark
Screenplay
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
City for Conquest
Screenplay
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Screenplay
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Angels with Dirty Faces
Screenplay
In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and demands the return of $100,000 deposited with his solicitor - prior to his jail term.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Screenplay
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
The Last Mile
Theatre Play
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.