Wells Root
출생 : 1900-03-21, Buffalo, New York, USA
사망 : 1993-03-09
Writer
The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over a matter of honor. Don Andrea flees across the river to Texas, where he meets up with Sam Hollis and his Indian sidekick, Kronk, who are carrying rifles to the town of Moccasin Flats. Don Andrea rescues an Indian maiden, Lonetta, tames some longhorns, competes with Sam for Phoebe's affections, eludes a Comanche war party and the cavalry and ultimately saves the town and gets his girl.
Screenplay
A ship's captain in the South Seas battles a villainous pearl trader who uses island natives as slaves for his business.
Adaptation
방탕한 부잣집 자식이자 바람둥이인 밥 메릭. 밥 메릭은 어느 날 젊은 혈기로 고속 모터보트를 몰다가 사고를 당하고, 그를 구하기 위해 구조활동이 벌어지는 동안 필립 박사가 사망한다. 밥 메릭은 유족인 헬렌에게 미안함을 표시하려 헬렌을 찾아가지만 헬렌은 자동차 사고를 당하고, 그 결과 실명하고 만다. 시력을 잃고 절망한 헬렌에게 밥은 로빈슨이라는 가명으로 접근하여 위안이 되어주려 노력한다. 밥은 헬렌과 함께 스위스로 간 뒤, 그곳에서 중단했던 의학 공부를 다시 시작한다.
Adaptation
An Englishman vacationing in Ruritania is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.
Screenplay
In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian.
Writer
Mother and daughter return to Mexico to escape the US Civil War... and get caught up in the conflict between the French army and the fighters for independence.
Adaptation
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
Screenplay
An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
Screenplay
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.
Screenplay
A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.
Director
A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.
Theatre Play
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with his boss, Mr Dawson who insults Pearson's wife and refuses to apologise. Pearson then resigns. After finding out that the yarn is actually worth a fair amount, Mr Dawson tries to buy it from Pearson but he has some competition.
Screenplay
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
Screenplay
Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan.
Screenplay
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.
Screenplay
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Screenplay
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
Screenplay
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Adaptation
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
Story
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.
Screenplay
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.
Director
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.
Writer
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Screenplay
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
Story
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Screenplay
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Screenplay
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
Screenplay
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
Writer
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
Writer
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
Writer
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Story
Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted inwardly. He becomes fond of a homeless waif, Jackie Curtis, and begins to look upon him as the son he never had. But when Jackie's mother appears, Joe has a hard decision to make.
Screenplay
A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
Screenplay
남태평양을 항해하던 요트가 폴리네시아의 한 섬에 다다르자 원주민들은 거룻배를 타고 나와 환영한다. 한편, 상어가 나타나자 선원 조니가 미끼를 던지다 그만 바다에 빠지고 만다. 아름다운 원주민 여인 루아나가 조니를 구하고, 두 사람은 사랑에 빠진다. 그러나 그녀는 이미 이웃 섬에 시집 가기로 되어 있다. 선원과 원주민 여인의 사랑과 모험을 그린 작품. 할리우드의 심의 규정이 강화되기 전이었으나, 돌로레스 델 리오가 나체로 수영하는 장면은 논란을 불러일으키기도 했다.
Adaptation
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
Writer
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
Screenplay
Burr and Dave, two close friends who have backed each other up in countless difficulties, are torn apart by the arrival of a woman, Manette, who becomes stranded with them in their cabin during a raging blizzard.
Adaptation
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.
Screenplay
Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day. When she returns to the hotel with her husband the following night, the house detective accuses her of prostitution and throws them out. Now Claire must explain everything to her unsympathetic husband.
Scenario Writer
Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day. When she returns to the hotel with her husband the following night, the house detective accuses her of prostitution and throws them out. Now Claire must explain everything to her unsympathetic husband.