Rowland Brown
출생 : 1900-11-06, Canton, Ohio, U.S.
사망 : 1963-05-06
약력
Rowland Brown (November 6, 1900 – May 6, 1963), born Chauncey Rowland Brown in Canton, Ohio, was an American screenwriter and film director, whose career as a director ended in the early 1930s after he started many more films than he finished. He walked out of State's Attorney (1932), starring John Barrymore. He was abruptly replaced as director of The Scarlet Pimpernel. As a writer, he was credited with twenty or so films including two Academy Award nominations, one in the 11th Academy Awards for Best Original Story Angels with Dirty Faces and another in the 4th Academy Awards for Doorway to Hell.
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A down-on-his-luck ex-GI finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he's finally released for lack of evidence--after having been beaten up and tortured by the police--he sets out to discover who set him up, and why. The trail leads him into Mexico and a web of hired killers and corrupt cops.
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A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.
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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.
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Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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두 절친한 친구가 성장하여 하나는 유명한 갱이, 하나는 신부가 되는데 신부는 뒷골목의 불량 청소년들을 선도하려고 애쓰지만 갱이 된 친구를 소년들이 우상으로 생각하고 그를 따르기 때문에 번번이 실패한다. 그러다가 갱 친구는 체포되어 사형선고를 받게 된다. 신부는 그를 찾아가서 부탁한다. 아이들이 너를 우상으로 받드는 이상에는 그애들도 자라서 너처럼 될것이라고. 그러니 죽을때 제발 비겁하게 살려달라고 애원하며 죽어달라고 부탁한다. 친구는 자기는 그렇게 죽을 수 없다며 거절한다. 사형집행의 날. 가스실에 들어간 그는 마침내 제발 살려달라고 울부짖는다. 그는 친구의 마지막 부탁을 들어준 것이다. 그 사실이 보도되자 자신들의 영웅이 비겁하게 죽어갔다는 것을 안 소년들은 마침내 신부의 품으로 돌아온다. 1930년대에 워너 브라더스가 제작한 여러 갱스터/범죄 멜로드라마를 대표하는 영화들 중 하나인 이 영화는 제임스 캐그니와 팻 오브라이언이 앙상블을 이뤄 연기한 수많은 영화들 중 두 번째에 해당하는 영화이다. 이 영화를 통해 캐그니는 처음으로 아카데미 남우주연상에 지명되었으며, 그 외에도 이 영화는 최우수 감독상(마이클 커티즈), 최우수 각본상(롤랜드 브라운) 등에 노미네이트되었다.
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Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.
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A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
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The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
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A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.
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A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.
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Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
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Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
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Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
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Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.
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A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
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A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
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A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
Writer
Nightclub singer Alice Carroll is found in the office of club owner Al Barrow, who is lying dead on the floor. Alice has been overheard threatening to kill Barrow rather than give in to his advances. She protests her innocence, but the District Attorney doesn't believe her and charges her with Barrow's murder. However, things aren't quite as cut-and-dried as the D.A. believes them to be.
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Cole Lawson Jr. goes undercover as a bandit to infiltrate the gang responsible for his father's death.
