John Twist

John Twist

Nascimento : 1898-07-14,

Morte : 1976-02-11

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John Twist

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Os Bravos Morrem Lutando
Screenplay
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um avião com um pelotão de fuzileiros navais cai numa pequena ilha do Pacífico que está ocupada por uma pequena unidade japonesa. Soldados americanos e japoneses, presos em uma pequena ilha do Pacífico durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, devem fazer uma trégua temporária e cooperar para sobreviver a várias adversidades. Contada pelos olhos dos comandantes das unidades americana e japonesa, que precisam lidar com uma atmosfera de crescente desconfiança e tensão entre seus homens. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
A Distant Trumpet
Screenplay
In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
Marines, Let's Go
Writer
Following combat duty in Korea, a group of United States Marines (Tom Tryon, David Hedison and Tom Reese) are given a furlough in Japan.
Esther e o Rei
Associate Producer
Esta passagem Bíblica conta a história vivida por Esther, uma mulher bem jovem que é forçada a deixar sua vida com sua família e seu noivo, e é levada para o palácio de Xerxes, o Rei da Pérsia. O Rei está procurando uma nova esposa por causa do comportamento infiel de sua antiga esposa, e sua escolhida foi Esther, desconhecida judia. Vendo seu povo sendo perseguido pelos soldados do Rei Xerxes, Esther decide dedicar sua vida em trazer paz para seu povo, usando seu poder de Rainha.
A História do FBI
Screenplay
O veterano agente do FBI, John Michael "Chip" Hardesty, narra a história da organização, iniciando com o caso de Jack Graham, psicopata que explodiu o avião que viajava a mãe dele, em um voo de Denver para Portland para ficar com o prêmio do seguro de vida dela. A solução do caso após minuciosa investigação é mostrada como um exemplo da evolução técnica daquele órgão policial norte-americano.
Meu Pecado Foi Nascer
Screenplay
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
Santiago
Writer
Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba. Along for the ride is a beautiful Cuban rebel in who both men are interested.
Serenata
Screenplay
Um jovem trabalhador do campo sonha ser cantor de ópera. Ao cantar em um restaurante, ele é descoberto por uma socialite por quem se apaixona e que lança sua carreira. Ao ser abandonado por ela, ele vai para o México e se apaixona por outra mulher.
Helena de Tróia
Screenplay
Há mais de 3 mil anos, Tróia era próspera, cuja localização a permitiu dominar o Helesponto (hoje conhecido como estreito de Dardanelos). Esta era a única rota marítima que ia e vinha do oriente, o que gerava muitas riquezas para Tróia, que se tornou um troféu de guerra tentador para as nações gregas. Os troianos se lembravam de quando os gregos, liderados por Esparta, saquearam e queimaram a cidade dos ancestrais. Em razão disto os troianos haviam preparado fortes defesas, para a possibilidade de futuros ataques. Guardada por grandes muralhas, a nova Tróia era um abrigo impenetrável para um povo feliz.
Mares Violentos
Screenplay
No começo da Segunda Guerra Mundial o capitão de cargueiro alemão Karl Ehrlich tenta levar seu navio para a Alemanha em meio a um cerco de navios de guerra Aliados. Quando a Segunda Guerra Mundial explodiu, o capitão alemão Karl Ehrlich estava prestes a deixar Sydney, Austrália com seu navio cargueiro, o Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, um alemão anti-nazista mas orgulhoso, espera conseguir escapar do navio de guerra britânico que o persegue. A bordo de seu navio está Elsa Keller, uma mulher que Ehrlich convidou a retornar à Alemanha com segurança, com qualquer segredo que ela carregue. Quando o feroz oficial nazista Kirchner comete uma atrocidade, a busca britânica torna-se mortal.
King Richard and the Crusaders
Writer
Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.
So Big
Writer
After the death of her father and the loss of his fortune, Selina takes a job teaching school in the Dutch community of New Holland. She stays with the Pools and teaches young Roelf piano. He has a crush on her, but it is Pervus she marries. Dirk is their only child. After a few years Pervus dies. With a young child and only the farm, Selina begins her quest to grow high quality vegetables. She wants more for Dirk and guides his life until he graduates from college as an architect. As her vegetable label prospers, she sees Paula control Dirk's life as he moves away from creating and into sales, which is not where he wants to go.
De Arma em Punho
Screenplay
Disfarçado como professor, o agente secreto do governo Major Ransome Callucut (Randolph Scott), chega na Califórnia para reunir informações sobre uma trama onde parte do sul do estado planeja de separar para se tornar escravocrata. Quando Callicut descobre um esconderijo de armas, ele revela sua verdadeira identidade e assume o posto de comando do exército local. Ajudados pelos seus companheiros Monk (Dick Wesson) e Olaf (Alan Hale Jr.) ele luta contra assassinatos políticos e outras intrigas.
Operation Secret
Story
After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues. Based on the actual exploits of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz.
Floresta Maldita
Screenplay
Madeireiro inescrupuloso pretende roubar terras onde crescem sequoias gigantes centenárias, mas enfrenta oposição de grupo religioso que habita a região, liderado por jovem viúva.
Best of the Badmen
Screenplay
After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt lawmen Joad and Fowler, who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.
Fort Worth
Writer
Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is against ambitious men and their schemes for control.
Vingador Impiedoso
Writer
After the Civil War, Confederate soldier Blayde Hollister travels to Dallas to avenge the savage murder of his family. Discovering his enemy is now an esteemed citizen, Hollister plots to expose the outlaw and his syndicate.
Colorado Territory
Screenplay
In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
Inferno nos Trópicos
Screenplay
O competente e correto engenheiro Johnny Munroe (John Wayne) é contratado para construir uma perigosa estrada de ferro numa montanha dos Andes.
Simbad - O Marujo
Story
Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexander the Great. His first stop is the port of Basra, where his ship is seized and scheduled for auction. In his attempt to win it back, he befriends beautiful concubine Shireen. But when her master, the nefarious Emir, calls her back to duty, Sinbad must interrupt his adventure to save the "Jewel of Persia."
Simbad - O Marujo
Screenplay
Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexander the Great. His first stop is the port of Basra, where his ship is seized and scheduled for auction. In his attempt to win it back, he befriends beautiful concubine Shireen. But when her master, the nefarious Emir, calls her back to duty, Sinbad must interrupt his adventure to save the "Jewel of Persia."
Bombardeio
Writer
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
Army Surgeon
Story
Drama about military doctors and nurses during wartime.
Emboscada em Alto Mar
Adaptation
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
Four Jacks and a Jill
Producer
Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Aregal Cafe, with herself as the vocalist, by pretending she once knew the King or Aregal back in the old country. Steve shows up pretending to be the King of Aregal, and complicates the growing romance between Nina and Nifty. When Steve runs off with Opa, the real King of Aregal (also Steve) appears and complicates things again.
Four Jacks and a Jill
Screenplay
Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Aregal Cafe, with herself as the vocalist, by pretending she once knew the King or Aregal back in the old country. Steve shows up pretending to be the King of Aregal, and complicates the growing romance between Nina and Nifty. When Steve runs off with Opa, the real King of Aregal (also Steve) appears and complicates things again.
Parachute Battalion
Screenplay
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.
Garotas em Penca
Screenplay
Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
Men Against the Sky
Story
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
Reno
Screenplay
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
Three Sons
Screenplay
A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
The Saint Strikes Back
Screenplay
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force. Convinced of the man's innocence, Templar takes it upon himself to vindicate the memory of Val's father. To do so he must take on the city's most dangerous criminal gang, while also battling hostile members of the police department.
Twelve Crowded Hours
Screenplay
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
The Great Man Votes
Screenplay
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
Pacific Liner
Screenplay
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
Quando Me Casar Novamente
Screenplay
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.
The Law West of Tombstone
Screenplay
A blustering gunfighter talks himself into the position of mayor in a small western town.
Hitting a New High
Screenplay
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
Annapolis Salute
Screenplay
The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the third decent but somewhat slow-witted--and their struggles with the rigors of the academy, women, and each other.
Flight from Glory
Screenplay
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.
O Ídolo de Nova York
Screenplay
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Screenplay
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
Sea Devils
Screenplay
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
We Who Are About to Die
Screenplay
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Mulher Fantasma
Story
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
Mulher Fantasma
Screenplay
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
The Last Outlaw
Screenplay
After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his daughter, Sally, who is unaware he is her father. He befriends Cal Yates, the now semi-retired assistant sheriff who originally caught him, and Chuck Wilson, a young rancher who has eyes for Sally. Wanted criminal Al Goss holds up the local bank and makes his getaway, taking Sally hostage. Showing he still has what it takes, Payton, along with Yates and Wilson, take off into the hills on horseback to try to track Goss down. - Written by Doug Sederberg
Yellow Dust
Screenplay
After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
Another Face
Screenplay
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
Na Mira de um Coração
Screenplay
Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
His Family Tree
Screenplay
A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.
Grand Old Girl
Screenplay
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
West of the Pecos
Writer
Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.
Red Morning
Writer
A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
La Cucaracha
Screenplay
Señor Martinez, a famous theater owner, visits a local café in Mexico because of its reputation for good food and to audition the famous dancer who performs there. Martinez tells the café owner that if the dancer is as good as he has heard, he will offer the dancer a contract to perform in his theater. The café's female singer hears about this and is determined that he won't leave the café without her.
No Palco da Vida
Screenplay
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
The Big Diamond Robbery
Scenario Writer
Tom Mix starred in this late-silent Wild West melodrama from poverty row company FBO as a ranch foreman assigned to escort his employer's daughter (Kathryn McGuire) from the big city back to the ranch. The girl, Ellen, is carrying the valuable Regent diamond, and the pair become the target of a gang of thieves led, it turns out, by Ellen's former fiancée Rodney (Ernest Hilliard).
Blockade
Story
Blockade was one of those curious 1929 hybrids known as a "part-talkie." The story of a dauntless female prohibition agent. In her pursuit of a gang of Florida rum-runners, Bess assumes three identities. At various junctures, she is "herself," a society belle and a gangster's moll.
Breed of Courage
Story
During a feud between remote families, a dog saves the day.