Robert Gleckler

Robert Gleckler

出生 : 1887-01-11, Pierre, South Dakota, USA

死亡 : 1939-02-25

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Robert Gleckler

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They Made Me a Criminal
Doc Ward (Johnnie's Manager)
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Stand Up and Fight
Sheriff Barney
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Tarnished Angel
Checkers, Casino Owner
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
Fugitives for a Night
J.G. McGee
A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
Little Miss Broadway
Detective
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Eddie
Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
Gangs of New York
Nolan
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
Gun Law
Flash Arnold
Finding a man alone in the desert, Marshal Tom is relieved - of his horse, clothes and water. When he catches up to Raven, he finds him dying from drinking bad water. When he gets to Gunsight, everyone thinks that he is the outlaw Raven and he plays it out so that he can end lawlessness.
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Hardcastle
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
Hot Water
Hal Lynch
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
The Man Who Cried Wolf
Capt. Walter Reid
An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.
Pick a Star
Head Waiter
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
Wings Over Honolulu
Squadron Lieutenant Commander
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
King of Gamblers
Ed Murkil
A fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery & comedy.
Great Guy
Marty Cavanaugh
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
North of Nome
Bruno
John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation. During a fierce sea-storm, Raglan rescues the passengers of a floundering ship, which includes the owner of the island, his daughter and her fiancée. The owner threatens to charge Ragland with poaching on private property, and then a gang of seal-skin thieves make an entrance.
The Girl on the Front Page
Bill
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
Sworn Enemy
Hinkle, a Gangster
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Love Begins at Twenty
Gangster Mugsy O'Bannion - aka Harold McCauley
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
I'd Give My Life
Buck Gordon
The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder which he never committed.
Yours for the Asking
Slick Doran
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.
Absolute Quiet
Jasper Cowdray
Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary hostage, the convicts inadvertently cause the crash-landing of a small plane ferrying Axton's political adversary, Gov. Sam Pruden, and a nosy reporter. As the long night unfolds, each person's rivalries and weaknesses are prodded by the others.
Too Tough to Kill
Bill Anderson
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
Whipsaw
Steve Arnold
Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer. Federal agent Ross McBride goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and, suspecting Vivian can lead him to the jewels, comes to her aid when she is chased by a rival gang. The two flee to the Midwest with both gangs in pursuit, but Vivian is not as gullible as Ross thinks.
Show Them No Mercy!
Gus Hansen
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
Here Comes the Band
Simmons
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Dante's Inferno
Dean
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.
The Daring Young Man
Editor Hooley
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
The Glass Key
Shad O'Rory
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.
The Headline Woman
Harry Chase
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
Mister Dynamite
James V. King - Chief of Detectives
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
Go Into Your Dance
Pete Brown
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
The Case of the Curious Bride
Detective Byrd
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
The Perfect Clue
Delaney
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.
The Great Hotel Murder
Police Captain
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
Million Dollar Ransom
'Doc' Carson
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
The Defense Rests
Lou Gentry
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
Now I'll Tell
Al Mossiter
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
The Personality Kid
Gavin
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
Very Close Veins
Doc
Ben Blue has "the largest vein in the country," but not the kind that the gold prospectors in Alaska think he's got!
Take a Chance
Mike Caruso
Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.
Defenders of the Law
Gangster
A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
The Finger Points
Sphinx Club Manager Larry Haynes
Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on a raid and Lee in the hospital.
Big Money
Monk
A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
The Sea God
Big Schultz
The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.
Mother's Boy
Gus LeGrand
Young Irish lad Tommy O'Day lives in a poor section of New York's Lower East Side, and is blessed with a beautiful singing voice. After an argument with his father, who accuses him of stealing the family's life savings, Tommy leaves home and gets a job singing in a cabaret. He is successful and soon lands the lead in a Broadway revue. On opening night, just as he is about to go on stage, he receives word that his mother, who he has not seen since he left home, is dying and wants to see him.