Frank Fenton

출생 : 1903-02-13, Liverpool - Merseyside - England - UK

사망 : 1971-08-23

참여 작품

Something for a Lonely Man
Writer
The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the town that they founded is to be bypassed by the railroad.
The Jayhawkers!
Screenplay
Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republic of Kansas but the military governor sends an ex-raider to capture Darcy.
남자의 생애
Screenplay
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.
These Wilder Years
Writer
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.
야성녀
Writer
1847년 네덜란드인들이 남아프리카에 자유식민지를 개척하던 시기 폴 반 리백(타이론 파워)은 그곳 자위대를 지휘하고 있었다. 어느날 폴은 아일랜드로 말을 사러 오는데, 말의 주인은 캐시 오닐(수잔 헤이워드)이었다. 둘은 첫눈에 반해 사랑을 나눴지만 폴은 남아프리카로 돌아가야 했고, 그 위험한 땅에 캐시를 데려갈 수 없어 둘은 헤어진다. 이후 캐시는 자신에게 오랫동안 구애해 온 숀 킬데어(존 저스틴)와 결혼하였다. 반년 후 아일랜드에 큰 기근이 들어 땅은 황폐해졌고, 캐시는 새로운 땅을 찾아 남아프리카로 이주할 것을 결심하고 남편과 함께 배에 오른다. 아프리카의 케이프타운에 도착한 캐시 일가는 개척지인 호픈계곡으로 떠나는 이민단에 합류하고, 줄루족이 출몰하는 8백리 밀림 속으로 길을 떠난다. 어느날 줄루족의 습격을 받아 전멸하려는 순간, 폴의 군대가 나타나 캐시 일행은 구출되었지만, 그 와중에 캐시의 남편 숀이 목숨을 잃는다. 한편 이민단의 안내를 맡은 커트는 캐시에게 반하여 폴과 날을 세운다. 호픈계곡에 도착한 폴과 캐시는 결혼하여 농장을 경영하지만 폴은 캐시의 반대에도 불구하고 자위대로 돌아가고, 캐시는 폴과의 사이에서 생긴 아들을 낳는다. 시간이 흘러 깡패 두목이 된 커트 일당과 줄루족을 진압한 폴은 캐시와 재회한다. (출처 : 김승경(영화사연구자))
가든 오브 이블
Screenplay
전직보안관 후커와 도박사 피스크 그리고 총잡이 테일러등 세 서부사나이는 미모의 부인 리아로부터 금광에 묻힌 남편을 구해주면 사례를 하겠다는 제의에 응한다. 그들은 이 여행이 매우 위험하고 오래 걸릴 거라는 걸 알았지만 거절하기엔 사례금이 너무 매혹적이었다. 악의 화원이라 불리는 인디언 지역에서 그들은 리아의 남편을 구하나 그가 다시 금광으로 돌아오다 인디언의 활에 맞아 죽는다. 험준한 산길에서 인디언의 습격을 받게 되자 피스크는 부인을 데리고 떠나라 하지만 서로 남겠다고 한다. 결국 제비를 뽑아 피스크는 남게 되고 후커는 부인을 데리고 떠난다.
돌아오지 않는 강
Screenplay
매튜 콜더는 잃어버렸던 9살난 어린 아들을 찾아 서부의 한 작은 마을로 찾아온다. 그곳은 금광을 찾기 위해 몰려든 사람들로 붐비고 있었다. 매튜는 술집에서 술 심부름을 하고 있는 아들, 마크를 찾아 함께 산으로 가 농사를 짓고 살기로 한다. 한편, 이 마을 선술집에서 노래를 하며 살아가던 케이는 자신의 애인이자 도박꾼인 해리 웨스턴이 도박판에서 금광 소유권을 따내자 소유권 등록을 하기 위해 함께 '카운슬시'로 떠난다. 그러나 케이와 웨스턴은 급류에 휩싸이게 되고 이 광경을 본 매튜가 두 사람을 구해준다. 위기에서 가까스로 살아난 웨스턴은 매튜에게 말과 총을 빌려줄 것을 요구하지만 매튜는 인디언이 언제 공격해올지 모르는 상황이기 때문에 빌려줄 수 없다고 거절한다. 결국 웨스턴은 무력으로 매튜를 때려눕히고 총과 말을 빼앗은 뒤 혼자 카운슬시로 떠난다. 매튜는 곧 의식을 회복하지만 매튜에게 무기가 없는 걸 눈치챈 인디언들이 땅과 농토를 빼앗기 위해 이들을 공격해 온다. 위기에 처한 매튜와 그의 아들 마크, 그리고 케이는 하는 수없이 뗏목을 타고 웨스턴을 찾아 카운슬시로 떠난다. '돌아오지 않는 강'이란 별명이 붙어있을 만큼 물살이 거세고 위험한 강을 따라 세 사람의 여행이 시작되고. 매튜와 케이는 아옹다옹 싸움을 하는 가운데 어느덧 서로에 대한 사랑의 감정이 싹튼다. 온갖 역경을 극복하고 마침내 카운슬시에 도착한 세 사람. 케이는 웨스턴을 만나 매튜에게 사과할 것을 부탁하지만 웨스턴은 매튜에게 총을 겨누며 위협한다. 한편 이 광경을 보고 있던 마크는 아버지를 구하기 위해 웨스턴을 총으로 쏴 죽인다. 자신이 사랑했던 사람은 매튜라는 사실을 깨달은 케이. 그녀가 '돌아오지 않는 강'이란 노래를 부르며 자신을 떠난 매튜를 그리워하고 있을 때, 매튜가 살롱으로 그녀를 찾아온다. 매튜와 마크, 그리고 케이 세 사람은 새 삶을 찾아 떠난다.
브라보 요새의 탈출
Screenplay
남북전쟁 직후에 남군들이 포로로 잡혀있는 북군의 요새, 이곳에서 탈출하는 남군들을 절대 놓치치 않는 악명높은 로퍼 대위(월리암 를덴)가 있었다. 어느 날 이곳에 대령의 딸 칼 (엘리노어 파커)가 나타나고 로퍼는 대단한 미모의 그녀에게 홀딱 반한다. 그러나 그녀는 포로로 잡혀있는 애인 마쉬를 탈출시키려고 온 것이다. 마침내 그들은 탈출을 감행하고, 로퍼는 그들을 추적하기 시작한다. 그들의 추적에는 성공하지만, 인디언들이 일행을 습격하면서 영화는 클라이막스로 향한다.
Ride, Vaquero!
Writer
Ranchers in New Mexico have to face Indians and bandits.
The Wild North
Screenplay
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
The Wild North
Story
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
The Man with a Cloak
Writer
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
His Kind of Woman
Screenplay
In a desperate attempt to get out of debt, career gambler Dan Milner agrees to rendezvous with a mysterious contact at a distant Mexican resort in exchange for $50,000. Upon arriving, Milner meets his fellow guests, including a plastic surgeon, a philandering movie star and his beautiful girlfriend. Soon Milner discovers that the man who hired him may be the ruthless gangster Nick Ferraro -- a deported crime boss looking to re-enter the USA.
Walk Softly, Stranger
Writer
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
Malaya
Screenplay
After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he could easily smuggle rubber, a key wartime natural resource, out of Malaya has him tasked with doing just that. He manages to get someone from his past, Carnaghan, sprung from Alactraz and together they head off to South East Asia posing as Irishmen. Once there, Carnaghan lines up some of his old cronies and with Royer and a few plantation owners plans to smuggle the rubber out from under the Japanese army's watchful eye.
Station West
Screenplay
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.
Night Song
Screenplay
A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.
과거로부터
Additional Writing
피터 보그다노비치가 “가장 묘하게 시적인 범죄스릴러 가운데 하나”라고 말한 는 자크 투르뇌르의 대표작일 뿐만 아니라 필름 누아르의 역사를 통틀어 최고작 가운데 하나로 꼽힐 만하다. 어느 한적한 마을에서 주유소 일을 하고 있는 제프에게 한 남자가 찾아온다. 그 남자는 과거에 사립탐정이었던 제프를 고용했던 휘트의 하수인이다. 예전에 제프는 휘트로부터, 자신에게 총을 쏘고 4만달러를 가지고 달아난 아내 캐시를 찾아서 자기한테 되돌려달라는 제안을 받았지만 그 여자와 위험한 사랑에 빠진 적이 있었다. 그렇게 지나갔던 과거가 이제 제프의 삶에 다시 어두운 그림자를 드리우기 시작한다. 제목에서 드러난 대로 는 결코 달아날 수 없는 과거에 발목 잡힌 사람들, 그러면서도 영속적인 도주의 상태를 꿈꾸는 사람들의 운명을 복잡한 내러티브와 빼어난 비주얼로 포착해낸다. 아마도 위험한 것에 대한 매혹과 그로 인한 운명의 길을 이처럼 매혹적으로 그린 영화는 영화사상 그리 많지 않을 것이다.
Lady Luck
Screenplay
A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.
Nocturne
Story
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
Goodnight, Sweetheart
Story
A journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a rival newspaper.
스카이스 더 리미트
Screenplay
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.
They Got Me Covered
Additional Dialogue
Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry her. When he gets a hot tip on some Nazi spies operating in Washington, D.C., he convinces Chris to help him break the story so he can get his job back. The pair soon find themselves in several awkward predicaments as they track the criminals down in a night club, a burlesque show, and face a final showdown at a beauty salon.
The Falcon Takes Over
Writer
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
A Date with the Falcon
Screenplay
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
The Gay Falcon
Screenplay
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
The Golden Fleecing
Story
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
Millionaires in Prison
Screenplay
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
The Saint Takes Over
Screenplay
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.
Little Orvie
Writer
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
The Saint in London
Screenplay
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector Teal, who's convinced that Templar himself pulled off the heist, and less reluctantly by light-fingered Dugan and dizzy socialite Penny Parker.
While New York Sleeps
Story
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
Down on the Farm
Story
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Keep Smiling
Story
Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.
International Settlement
Story
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
Checkers
Story
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
Checkers
Screenplay
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
Wild and Woolly
Screenplay
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
Step Lively, Jeeves!
Screenplay
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
Angel's Holiday
Story
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
Woman Chases Man
Original Story
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.
Dinky
Story
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Story
During World War I a vaudeville entertainer, Mickey, is helping to recruit officers for the army and finds himself in the service along with his female partner, who is also his girlfriend. At training camp he comes up against Top Sergeant Mulligan, who proceeds to make life miserable for him. If that wasn't enough, it turns out that Mulligan, the captain and a YMCA worker are all making a play for his girlfriend.
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Screenplay
During World War I a vaudeville entertainer, Mickey, is helping to recruit officers for the army and finds himself in the service along with his female partner, who is also his girlfriend. At training camp he comes up against Top Sergeant Mulligan, who proceeds to make life miserable for him. If that wasn't enough, it turns out that Mulligan, the captain and a YMCA worker are all making a play for his girlfriend.