Harold Young

Nascimento : 1897-11-13, Portland, Oregon, USA

Morte : 1972-03-03

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Harold Young (November 13, 1897 – March 3, 1972) was an American film director, editor, and occasional actor. Born in Portland, Oregon, Young was active as a film editor from 1923-1934, working first on a series of George O'Hara short subjects under the director Malcolm St. Clair. Young's best-known early directoral assignment is probably The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), starring Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon, one example of his occasional work in Britain. He died on March 3, 1972 in Beverly Hills, California.

Filmes

Witchcraft
Director
Madame Tirelou is a witch who will not allow her daughter Marie to marry her true love Louis. The witch puts a curse on Louis should he ever set eyes on Marie again. Louis enlists the help of his old friend Fred to break the witch's spell so the young lovers may finally marry. However, Madame Tirelou proves more powerful than non-believer Fred bargained for.
Carib Gold
Director
A trabalhadora luta da tripulação de um barco de camarão descobre um tesouro submerso. Segue-se o problema nesta produção dramática em preto-elenco.
The Lie
Director
A man who owns a diamond importing business goes out for a night on the town with his girlfriend, her brother and her brother’s fiancé. The group stops by a circus to see the act of a trapeze artist who’s a friend of the man’s girlfriend. The performer suggests that all the men go out for a few drinks, and the next thing the businessman knows, he’s waking up in his apartment with a terrible hangover and a dead body in his room.
As Oito Vítimas
Captain (uncredited)
A mãe de Louis Manzzini pertence à aristocrata família D'Ascoyne, até ela fugir com um cantor de ópera. A partir daí, ela e Louis são rejeitados pelos D'Ascoynes. Quando vira um adulto, Louis resolve se vingar, tornando-se o próximo Duque da família. O caminho mais fácil para ele acaba sendo assassinar o sucessor natural ao cargo.
Citizen Saint
Director
A Catholic Church-sponsored film about the life of Frances Cabrini, an Italian immigrant who established schools, orphanages and hospitals in the United States. Primarily booked into schools or churches, or a local church would rent a theatre for a roadshow one-night viewing by members of the local congregation.
The Jungle Captive
Director
Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.
Phantoms, Inc.
Director
This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance that her son is all right. When she can no longer pay, events take a tragic turn.
The Frozen Ghost
Director
When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guilt, the mentalist cancels further shows, breaks off his engagement to his female partner, who can read minds while in a hypnotic trance, and takes refuge in the eerie wax-museum-cum-home of another woman friend.
Song of the Sarong
Director
An adventurer is promised $1 million if he can recover a fortune in pearls, but they are guarded by a tribe of fierce natives.
I'll Remember April
Director
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
Você Já Foi à Bahia?
Director
Pato Donald recebe uma grande caixa no dia de seu aniversário, trazendo três presentes. O primeiro traz um projetor de cinema, contendo um filme sobre aves da América do Sul. O segundo contém um livro sobre o Brasil, que o leva à Bahia ao lado de Zé Carioca. O terceiro tem uma piñata, acompanhada de Panchito. Com os amigos, Donald vive aventuras no Brasil e no México.
Machine Gun Mama
Director
Two Americans stranded in Mexico with an elephant try to sell their animal to a traveling carnival. Low-budget comedy with songs and a misleading title.
Spy Train
Director
People on a train want what's in a Nazi spy bag, unaware it's a time bomb.
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Director
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
Hi, Buddy
Director
Dick Foran and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson) top the cast of the Universal musical quickie Hi, Buddy. Foran plays GI Dave O'Connor, who comes to the rescue when a boy's club is threatened with foreclosure. Upon learning that the money targetted for the club has been appropriated by a crooked manager, O'Connor calls upon his army buddies to stage a big, fundraising show.
Hi'ya, Chum
Director
Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.
A Tumba da Múmia
Director
30 anos depois de profanar a tumba de Ananka e enfrentar seu guardião, a múmia Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.), Steve Banning está velho e constitui família. Mas Kharis e seu Sacerdote não morreram e prometem vingança a toda linhagem dos Banning. Sendo assim, vão para os Estados Unidos trazer terror aos familiares dos arqueólogos que ficaram famosos e ricos há mais de 30 anos com a profanação da tumba sagrada da princesa Ananka. Sequência de "A Múmia" (1932) e "A Mão da Múmia" (1940).
Rubber Racketeers
Director
Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.
There's One Born Every Minute
Director
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
Juke Box Jenny
Director
Swing and jitterbug.
Swing It Soldier
Director
In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and her job, she decides to take some time off and convinces her twin sister to trade places with her. The switcheroo causes the soldier her husband appointed as her unofficial guardian no end of confusion.
Bachelor Daddy
Director
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
Dreaming Out Loud
Director
Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.
Sabotage
Director
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
Hero for a Day
Director
When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
The Forgotten Woman
Director
A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.
Code of the Streets
Director
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor (Harris Berger), Murph (Hally Chester), Monk (Charles Duncan), Trouble (Billy Benedict) and Yap (David Gorcey). The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis (Harry Carey), Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay (Paul Fix) is innocent.
Newsboys' Home
Director
A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys.
The Storm
Director
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
Little Tough Guy
Director
The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime spree is financed by a mysterious young man--who turns out to be the son of the District Attorney who sent the boy's father to the electric chair.
52nd Street
Director
The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.
Let Them Live
Director
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
My American Wife
Director
Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian fighter Lafe Cantillon (Fred Stone). Lafe's social-climbing sister-in-law (Billie Burke) insists that her daughter Mary wed a titled European, Count Ferdinand (Francis Lederer). Much to Lafe's delight, Mary isn't assimilated into Continental high society; instead, she instructs Count Ferdinand in the virtues of good, old-fashioned American democracy. And, of, course, the Count and Lafe become great chums when the "furriner" proves that he can ride a bucking bronco with the best of 'em.
Woman Trap
Director
A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the murder leads to a tenure as a temporary FBI agent.
A Mulher do Outro
Director
In order to save herself while in China, a woman marries a young drifter and is able to return to England. Later, believing that her new husband is dead, she marries a wealthy man. Her new husband's ex-girlfriend, learning of the woman's past and that her first husband is indeed alive, threatens to expose the new wife as a bigamist.
A Revolução Francesa
Director
Uma mulher nobre descobre que o seu marido é o "Pimpinela Escarlate", um vigilante que resgata aristocratas da lâmina da guilhotina.
A Rainha Imortal
Supervising Editor
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
Os Amores de Henrique VIII
Editorial Manager
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
The Girl from Maxim's
Editor
A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.
Counsel's Opinion
Editor
Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......
Service for Ladies
Editor
Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
The Reckless Hour
Art Direction
Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.
The Reckless Hour
Editor
Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.
The Lash
Editor
A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.
Bright Lights
Editor
In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life and settles down to what she thinks is the blissful mundaneness of married life. Unfortunately, the actual drudgery of wifedom takes her by surprise and domestic turmoil ensues.
Top Speed
Editor
An order clerk poses as a millionaire.
Her Private Life
Editor
A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
The Yellow Lily
Editor
Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving 'em and leaving 'em, the Archduke finally meets a girl he can't leave, Hungarian lass Judith Peredy (Billie Dove). She resists his advances but can't hide the fact that she's in love with him. The Yellow Lily was the second of four cinematic collaborations between star Billie Dove and director Alexander Korda.
O homem forte
Editor
Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, um soldado belga se apaixona por um jovem chamada Mary Brown, após receber uma misteriosa foto. Após a guerra, o jovem belga vai para a América como assistente de um "homem forte" do teatro, Zandow, o Grande. Enquanto isto, nos Estados Unidos, ele procura por seu amor.