John Monks Jr.

출생 : 1910-02-24, Pleasantville, New York, USA

사망 : 2004-12-10

참여 작품

챔피언
Mickey the Bartender
뉴욕의 뒷골목 건달인 카즈머는 자신의 생활에 염증을 느끼고 어떻하든 그 생활을 청산하려고 한다. 카즈머는 동생처럼 지내는 얼음 배달부 빅터와 술집에 들렀다가 프로레슬러 프랭키와 내기 팔씨름을 주선해 승리한다. 빅터의 힘에 자신이 생긴 카즈머는 파라다이스 엘리의 챔피언 빅 글로리와의 경기를 주선하고 그 경기도 이기자 빅터를 프로레슬러로 만들려고 한다. 빅 글로리의 집으로 위로하러 찾아갔지만 그의 가난한 모습과 허탈감을 보고 빅터는 프로레슬러의 길을 포기하려 하지만 카즈머는 그를 설득하여 프로레슬러로 데뷰하여 승승장구한다. 프랭키와의 시합을 앞둔 크리스마스날 카즈머는 빅 글로리에게 빅터의 파티에 가자고하지만 빅 글로리는 실패한 선수생활에 낙담을 하고 자살한다. 이때부터 카즈머는 프랭키와의 경기에 회의를 느끼고 빅터를 만류하지만 결국 경기는 벌어지고…
No Man Is an Island
Producer
The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
No Man Is an Island
Writer
The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
No Man Is an Island
Director
The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
High Tor
Writer
High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson adapted it into a television musical with Arthur Schwartz. Anderson first considered a musical adaptation of High Tor for television in 1949. He and John Monks Jr. adapted the play as a made-for-television musical fantasy in 1955, with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Anderson. High Tor was filmed in November 1955 by Desilu Productions at the RKO-Pathé Studio and broadcast March 10, 1956 on the CBS television network, as a 90-minute episode of the series Ford Star Jubilee. Bing Crosby, Julie Andrews, Nancy Olson, Hans Conreid, and Keenan Wynn starred in the film, produced by Arthur Schwartz, and directed by James Neilson.
So This Is Love
Writer
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
Where's Charley?
Screenplay
Musical version of the comedy by Brandon Thomas. As part of a simple enough ruse, a Cambridge student poses as his aunt but his scheme goes wrong, first when someone falls for the aunt, and then when the real aunt turns up.
About Face
Theatre Play
Three friends enter military school together, but 2 of them don't know that the 3rd one is secretly married.
The People Against O'Hara
Writer
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
The West Point Story
Screenplay
A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.
Dial 1119
Screenplay
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
Knock on Any Door
Screenplay
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Wild Harvest
Screenplay
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money. Farmer's niece Fay falls for Joe. He puts her off. To get back she marries Jim whom she prods into high-grading the grain (skimming off some for private sale). The last payment on Joe's machinery is due just as he discover's what his buddy has been doing.
13 Rue Madeleine
Screenplay
Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles Gibson confirms that O'Connell is really a top German agent, but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they intend to feed the mole false information about the impending D-Day invasion.
92번가 집
Screenplay
The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.
We Are the Marines
Writer
The history of the Corps, from Colonial times to the present day (1942, that is). The film's midsection details the arduous training procedure of the Few and the Proud at Parris Island and elsewhere. Finally, wartime newsreel footage is adroitly blended with dramatized re-enactments to illustrate the contributions - and the utter necessity-of the marines in WW II.
스트라이크 업 더 밴드
Screenplay
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.
Brother Rat and a Baby
Screenplay
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.