Richard Irvine

Filmes

Sombras da Loucura
Art Direction
A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.
Taxi
Art Direction
A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband.
The I Don't Care Girl
Art Direction
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.
Almas Desesperadas
Art Direction
Nell, sobrinha do ascensorista do hotel, é contratada para cuidar de uma menina enquanto os pais estão numa convenção. Lyn é cantora no bar do hotel e seu namorado Jed, piloto de avião, chegou e a relação está em crise. Então, pela janela do quarto, Jed vê Nell, conversam e ele vai encontra-la. Mas Nell se passa pela hospede, vestindo as roupas e usando o perfume. Quando a garotinha surge Jed não entende e começa a perceber que Nell não é muito equilibrada. Isso porque Nell, em sua fantasia, acha que Jed é o seu noivo do passado. Um thriller único com uma performance dramática rara de Marilyn Monroe.
The Secret of Convict Lake
Art Direction
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was jailed under false pretenses. When Canfield and his fellow fugitives reach an isolated farming settlement where the men are all away, it creates tension with the local women. Things get direr when rumors of hidden money arise, and Canfield discovers that the man who framed him is part of the community.
Follow the Sun
Art Direction
A biographical film of Ben Hogan, from his start as a golf caddy to being considered one of golf's greatest players.
I'll Get By
Art Direction
I'll Get By is an updated remake of the 1940 20th Century-Fox musical Tin Pan Alley. William Lundigan and Dennis Day play William Spencer and Freddie Lee respectively, successful song publishers who make hits out of such numbers as "I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo", "Deep in the Heart of Texas", "You Make Me Feel So Young", "There Will Never Be Another You", and other favorites (the rights to all of these songs were conveniently held by 20th Century-Fox). The partnership has some hard times, especially during the feud between ASCAP and the radio networks, when only public-domain songs like "I Dream of Jeannie" were permitted to be broadcast.
O Matador
Art Direction
Jimmy Ringo é o gatilho mais rápido do oeste, mas ele está ficando cansado de tudo e gostaria de se aposentar. Mas onde quer que vá, há sempre algum garoto durão que quer tentar vencê-lo num duelo.
Love That Brute
Art Direction
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.
Mother Didn't Tell Me
Art Direction
Jane Morgan (Dorothy McGuire) marries handsome doctor William Wright (William Lundigan), despite warnings from a host of other doctor's wives that she will be neglected and lonely, thanks to his career. Based on the novel The Doctor Has Three Faces by Mary Bard and billed as a movie with "all the answers" for new wives, this dated little film follows Jane's struggles to adapt her life to better suit her husband's needs.
O Gênio Vai Para a Escola
Art Direction
A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.
Apartment for Peggy
Art Direction
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
You Were Meant for Me
Art Direction
A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.
Milagre na Rua 34
Art Direction
Quando um velhinho agradável que afirma ser Papai Noel é acusado de insanidade, um jovem advogado decide defendê-lo, argumentando no tribunal que ele de fato é Papai Noel. No desfile do Dia Ação de Graças da Loja de Departamentos Macy's, o ator que interpreta Papai Noel é flagrado por ter bebido por um homem velho bigodudo. Doris Walker, o maluco diretor de eventos especiais da loja, convence o velhinho a assumir o trabalho. O velhinho revela-se uma sensação e é rapidamente recrutado para ser o Papai Noel da saída da principal Macy's. Embora bem sucedido, Walker investiga e descobre que ele se chama Kris Kringle e que ele afirma ser o verdadeiro Papai Noel. Apesar das garantias do médico de que Kringle é inofensivo, Doris ainda tem dúvidas, especialmente porque ele tem cinicamente convencido à si mesmo e especialmente à sua filha, Susan, para rejeitar todas as noções de crença e fantasia.
The Brasher Doubloon
Art Direction
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled in a series of unexplained murders.
Audácia de Criminoso
Art Direction
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.
Within These Walls
Art Direction
Michael Howland, a stern hanging judge, is assigned to take over a chaotic prison. There Michael imposes a strict regime of discipline on the inmates. He is similarly rigid and harsh with his own two children Tommie and Anne. However, his son Tommie Howland eventually ends up incarcerated in his father's prison.
Circumstantial Evidence
Art Direction
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
Você Já Foi à Bahia?
Art Direction
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.
Guest in the House
Art Direction
Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.
No Place for a Lady
Art Direction
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
Private Snuffy Smith
Art Direction
A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character.
Correspondente Estrangeiro
Assistant Art Director
Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea) é o correspondente de um jornal de Nova York que viaja para a Europa usando o pseudônimo de Huntley Haverstock, quando a 2ª Guerra Mundial era uma realidade cada vez mais iminente. Inicialmente ele vai para Londres mas logo está em Amsterdã, onde juntamente com várias pessoas testemunha o assassinato de Van Meer (Albert Bassermann), um diplomata holandês. Entretanto, logo ele toma consciência que quem morreu foi um sósia e que Van Meer na verdade foi sequestrado por agentes do inimigo, que querem arrancar do diplomata importantes segredos. Assim sua situação fica desesperadora, pois sua história é em princípio absurda e, além disto, estão querendo matá-lo.
Slightly Honorable
Art Direction
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Winter Carnival
Art Direction
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.