James Edward Grant
출생 : 1905-07-02, Chicago, Illinois, USA
사망 : 1966-02-19
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James Edward Grant (July 2, 1905 - February 19, 1966) was an American short story writer and screenwriter who contributed to more than fifty films between 1935 and 1971.
Born in Chicago, Grant began his career in the mid-1930s developing stories or writing scripts for mostly B movies. He collaborated with John Wayne on twelve projects, starting with Angel and the Badman (which he also directed) in 1947 through Circus World in 1964. Support Your Local Gunfighter was released in 1971, five years after his death.
Grant won the Bronze Wrangler, an annual award presented by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, twice, for The Alamo in 1961 and The Comancheros the following year. He and William Bowers were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Sheepman in 1959.
Grant wrote numerous short stories that were published in Argosy, The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and Liberty, among others.
Grant died from cancer in Burbank, California. He owned a cattle ranch in Winton in Merced County from the 1940s until his death.
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Story
A remake of the classic 1947 John Wayne western about an injured gunslinger who falls in with good company in the form of some Quakers.
Writer
A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police are quickly called in, however, and only one of the robbers, Murdock, makes a clean getaway. Unfortunately, in order to do so, he is forced to dump the stolen cash into a mailbox, which he then finds is locked until midnight, forcing him to wait until the mailman makes his late night pickup. As he waits, he discovers that his hiding place has been observed by several other people, all of whom want a share of the loot.
Author
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
Story
US Marshal Gid McCool leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison. The only female among the crooks is the dancehall girl Laura Mannon, McCool's former flame. When McCool cannot be swayed from completing his lawful duty, Laura tries to endear herself to shotgun rider Mike Reno in hopes he will set her free.
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Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.
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전직 해군이었던 단짝친구 마이클과 토마스. 남태평양의 아름다운 섬에서 생애 최고의 환상적인 날들을 보내고 있는 이들은 또 다른 친구인 닥터 데드햄과 함께 어울리며 흥미진진한 파라다이스의 인생을 즐기는 중이다. 그러던 어느 날 이들 앞에 아름다운 아가씨 아멜리아가 등장한다. 아버지를 찾아 이곳까지 왔다는 그녀. 아멜리아의 아버지는 바로 마이클의 친구 닥터 데드햄이다. 아멜리아의 등장은 이 아름다운 파라다이스에 또 다른 사건을 몰고 오는데...
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바람둥이에 뛰어난 언변, 총솜씨를 지닌 폴 리그렛. 그는 결투로 당당하게 승리하지만 그 상대가 판사의 아들이라는 이유로 살인혐의로 쫓기는 몸이 된다. 유람선 안에서 아름다운 여인 멜린다의 유혹을 받고 사랑에 빠지지만 그도 잠시, 그는 보안관 제이크에게 붙잡히는 신세가 되고 만다. 그러나 리그렛은 제이크가 방심하는 순간 도망치고, 최고의 텍사스 레이저 제이크는 말도 없이 걸어서 초소로 돌아온다. 그는 무법자 코만치 족을 잡기 위해 무기상으로 위장하고 패거리들에게 접근하는데 그 와중에 포커판에서 리그렛과 다시 마주친 다. 리그렛은 뛰어난 총솜씨와 순발력으로 제이크를 돕고, 초소로 돌아가던 중 또다시 코만치족의 습격을 받지만 도망친줄 알았던 리그렛이 지원부대를 데리고 와 위기를 모면한다. 결국 제이크는 그가 무죄로 풀려날 수 있도록 힘을 쓰고 리그렛은 텍사스 레인저로 활동하게 된다. 이들에게 남은 과제는 무법의 코만치 족을 소탕하는 것. 그들은 무기상으로 위장한 채 그들의 소굴로 찾아 들어가고, 침입자로 낙인 찍혀 처형의 위기에 처한다. 그러나 코만치족 우두머리의 딸이 바로 리그렛이 배에서 만나 사랑에 빠졌던 여인 멜린다였고 그녀 또한 리그렛을 잊지 못하고 있었던 것인데...
Producer
1836년, 당시 멕시코 영토였던 텍사스가 독립선언을 하자 멕시코의 독재자 산타아나는 토벌군을 파견하게 된다. 이에 텍사스 민병대는 산 안토니오 교외의 알라모로 몰아 붙인다. 민병대를 재조직 할 수 있는 시간을 벌기 위해 알라모 요새를 사수하려 하는 산타아나, 그러나 요새안에 있는 병력은 불과 200여명도 남지 않게 된다. 7천여명의 대부대를 이끌고 알라모로 진격하는 멕시코군들과 이를 몸으로 막아내는 알라모 수비대원들의 사투가 벌어진다.
Screenplay
1836년, 당시 멕시코 영토였던 텍사스가 독립선언을 하자 멕시코의 독재자 산타아나는 토벌군을 파견하게 된다. 이에 텍사스 민병대는 산 안토니오 교외의 알라모로 몰아 붙인다. 민병대를 재조직 할 수 있는 시간을 벌기 위해 알라모 요새를 사수하려 하는 산타아나, 그러나 요새안에 있는 병력은 불과 200여명도 남지 않게 된다. 7천여명의 대부대를 이끌고 알라모로 진격하는 멕시코군들과 이를 몸으로 막아내는 알라모 수비대원들의 사투가 벌어진다.
Story
Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned down the family home--a Confederate veteran finds himself facing a 30-day jail sentence when he's unfairly accused of starting a brawl in a small town. A local woman pays his fine, providing that he works it off on her ranch. He soon finds himself involved in the woman's struggle to keep her ranch from a local landowner who wants it--and whose sons were responsible for the man being framed for the fight.
Story
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
Screenplay
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
Screenplay
남북전쟁 이후 불안한 정세의 택사스를 배경으로 펼쳐지는 클래식 웨스턴 무비. 전쟁이 끋나고 택사스로 돌아온 샌더스대령(찰톤헤스톤)은 과거를 숨기고 그에게 접근하는 로나(앤백스터)와 그의 거대한 목장과넓은 토지를 빼았으려 음모를 꾸미는 무자비한 은행가들, 타락하고 부도덕한 임시정부와 다시 새로운 전쟁을 치르기 위해 총을 뽑게 된다.
이영화는 음모와 배신 그리고 애증의 극적인 감동과 액션으로 가득한 웨스턴 영화다.
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토드는 자신의 아내와 두 어린 자식을 죽인 사람들을 복수하기로 결심한다. 백인이었던 그는 코만치족의 인디언이 되었고, 20여 년간 아파치 족 등과 싸우면서 황무지에 살게 된다. 가족의 원수를 처치하던 중, 그들 중 한명에게 붙잡혀 끌려가게 되고 포장마차 일행을 만나 동행하게 된다. 하지만 포장마차 일행은 아파치의 습격을 받아 몰살되고, 아이들 몇 명만 남게 된다. 아이들은 토드를 경계하지만 언제 공격할지 모르는 인디언과의 사투 과정에서 차츰 연민의 정을 느껴 마음을 열게 되고, 일행은 살아남지만 토드는 나중에 재판을 받게 된다. 재판 과정에서 그의 진술은 감동적인 법정연설이 된다.
Screenplay
Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus.
Director
Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus.
Screenplay
아파치와 백인의 대결을 다룬 서부극
Writer
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.
Screenplay
인원과 보급의 부족에도 불구하고 치열한 전투 속에서 결사적 임무 수행을 하는 대장 커비는 프로펠러를 총검화하는 초저공대지 공격전술을 주장하는 전형적인 직업군인이다. 그러나 늘 부하를 사랑하기만 하는 부대장과는 의견에 차질이 있다. 대장의 전술이 상부의 인정을 받아 지상군을 도와 연속적인 승리를 거두는 동안 부대장도 대장을 닮게 된다는 이야기. 미해병항공부대의 활약상을 그린 영화로 임무와 애정 사이에서 고뇌하며 부하를 통솔하는 것이 얼마나 어려운가를 이 영화는 보여준다.
Story
Brandy Kirby and crooked Lawyer Vincent Mailer plan to rob William and Maida McIntyre by producing a convincing double for their long-lost son. Brandy charms gambler Lefty Farrell into impersonating the missing son.
Screenplay
An American takes up bullfighting to impress the ladies but learns to respect the sport.
Writer
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure an acquittal.
Screenplay
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder.
Story
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder.
Screenplay
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Story
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the children, he has to get married.
Screenplay
분대장 스트라이커는 언제 있을지 모를 전투에 대비해 분대원들을 매우 강하게 훈련시켜 분대원들로부터 원성의 대상이다. 하지만 그의 엄격함 속에는 이혼으로 인해 생이별 하게 된 아픔이... 태평양 전쟁터 타리와 섬에서 일본군의 살인적인 포화로 줄줄이 쓰러지게 되고 명령을 무시한 분대원들과 충돌이 빚어지게 되는데...
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Story
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.
Story
Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden (George Cleveland) at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, released in the company's patented Trucolor system. The "killing," however, is merely a ruse set up to allow army agent Johnny Drum (Cameron) to infiltrate a gang of highway robbers.
Screenplay
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.
Director
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.
Producer
Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champion. But the famed boxer is no match for the two women with holds on him, love struck actress Kathy Harkness and the real love of his life, beautiful but unyielding Anne Livingstone.
Writer
Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champion. But the famed boxer is no match for the two women with holds on him, love struck actress Kathy Harkness and the real love of his life, beautiful but unyielding Anne Livingstone.
Screenplay
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
Story
The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
Screenplay
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.
Story
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.
Screenplay
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Story
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Story
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He makes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for some Austrian prisoners, but discovers that the Nazis are not to be trusted.
Story
McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Story
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.
Story
음악가 지망생인 로버트 그레고리는 지휘자로서 연주할 기회를 잡는다. 미국에서 강제 추방을 당하기 전 날 영국행 유람선으로 가던 중 사랑하지도 않는 억만장자와 약혼한 운명의 여인 파트리샤 오멜레이와 택시사고로 충돌하게 된다.사고 후 파트리샤는 그녀의 삼촌 집으로 로버트를 숨겨주고, 약혼자 챨스는 가드너는 집사를 시켜 약혼녀를 찾아나선다. 한편 출입국 관리국에서는 로버트를 수배하기 시작하고, 사태는 점점 나빠져만 가는데...
Screenplay
음악가 지망생인 로버트 그레고리는 지휘자로서 연주할 기회를 잡는다. 미국에서 강제 추방을 당하기 전 날 영국행 유람선으로 가던 중 사랑하지도 않는 억만장자와 약혼한 운명의 여인 파트리샤 오멜레이와 택시사고로 충돌하게 된다.사고 후 파트리샤는 그녀의 삼촌 집으로 로버트를 숨겨주고, 약혼자 챨스는 가드너는 집사를 시켜 약혼녀를 찾아나선다. 한편 출입국 관리국에서는 로버트를 수배하기 시작하고, 사태는 점점 나빠져만 가는데...
Dialogue
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Screenplay
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Writer
Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to help catch the crook.
Story
A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.
Screenplay
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
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A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Screenplay
A newsman (George Murphy) with a no-good wife (Claire Dodd) exposes a religious racket with a newswoman (Josephine Hutchinson) who loves him.
Story
Alden "Bill" Carter III sees a beautiful woman, Jerry, dining alone at the Park Savoy in New York, and after a brief flirtation, introduces himself. After he entreats her to be his "mystery woman" to make his girl friend jealous, Jerry agrees to attend a reception that night with him at the Douglas home. This plays right into Jerry's plans, as she is a jewel thief who intends to steal the Douglas jewels with her cohorts, Uncle John and Jeff...
Story
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
Story
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
Screenplay
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and put behind bars.
Story
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
Story
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
Novel
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul admits his dog was shot by extortionists to show they mean business, and shows Tip some threatening notes they sent. That night, Paul's ward, Corinne, is kidnapped by two gangsters and her driver is found dead the next morning. The kidnappers contact Tip demanding $200,000, which is delivered according to instructions. Awaiting the return of Corrine, Tip learns her fiancé, Gene Leland, is an ex-convict, and he also investigates why a thug, Maratti, was found prowling around the grounds, and why Paul's brother-in-law, Jim Glenray, was seen leaving the estate late the night before. And when the chauffeur is murdered with Amy's gun as he was about to confess some complicity, Tip has to piece together various clues to pinpoint the culprits.
Story
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.
