Fred Niblo Jr.

Filmes

O Sentenciado
Screenplay
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Incident
Screenplay
An innocent man -- due to a case of mistaken identity -- is beaten. Once recovered, the stockbroker tries to find the actual intended target -- a gangster-- and warn him.
In This Corner
Writer
A Navy veteran takes up boxing and winds up killing his own friend in the ring during a championship match.
Bodyguard
Screenplay
A cop on suspension is framed for murder when he noses in on a murder investigation.
Tampico
Screenplay
A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat.
The Falcon in Danger
Screenplay
Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government.
Mercado Negro
Screenplay
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Screenplay
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Passage from Hong Kong
Screenplay
In this comedy, a crime novelist spins a yarn to impress the apple of his eye. He tells her that he has been involved in a murder.
Three Sons o' Guns
Screenplay
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
A Tragédia do Circo
Screenplay
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
Father's Son
Writer
A young boy seeks love and understanding from his cold, demanding father.
River's End
Writer
An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder. Star Dennis Morgan plays two roles.
A Fugitive from Justice
Additional Writing
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
An Angel from Texas
Screenplay
Palco atingido, Lydia Weston deixa sua pequena cidade no Texas e vai para a Broadway. Deixado para trás está seu namorado Peter. Lydia envia cartas e recortes de notícias de volta para casa dizendo a todos que ela agora é uma grande estrela. Peter logo vai para Nova York para surpreendê-la, mas em vez disso ele fica surpreso ao descobrir que Lydia não tem emprego e está falida. A dupla logo se envolve com alguns produtores falsos que enganam Peter para que apoie sua peça com Lydia na liderança.
The Fighting 69th
Screenplay
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
No Place to Go
Screenplay
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life.
The Cowboy Quarterback
Screenplay
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.
Hell's Kitchen
Screenplay
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
City Streets
Screenplay
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
Penitentiary
Screenplay
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
Little Miss Roughneck
Screenplay
Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).
Little Miss Roughneck
Story
Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).
All American Sweetheart
Screenplay
Cap Collender (Arthur Loft),a showboat gambling racketeer, ensnares a collegiate rowing team's coxswain, "Squirt" Adams (Jimmy Eagles), into the sports-gambling racket.
Counsel for Crime
Screenplay
Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a shifty shyster whose underhanded methods loses him the love of his sweetheart Anne (Nana Bryant), who subsequently marries a powerful senator (Thurston Hall). What Mellon doesn't know is that Anne has borne him a son, whom the senator has adopted. Reaching adulthood, Paul (Douglass Montgomery) opts for a legal career himself, taking a clerical job with his own father's firm. In typical "B"-picture, Mellon is charged with murdering one of his more odious clients -- and Paul is appointed prosecuting attorney in the case.
Jogo Que Mata
Screenplay
Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers. When his brother is killed in a highly suspicious accident, Ferguson and team trainer Holland join forces to bring the killers to justice.
Lady from Nowhere
Screenplay
A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer tries to track her down and silence her.
The Man Who Lived Twice
Writer
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
Roaming Lady
Screenplay
Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey and and her munitions-producing father, E. J. Reid and an assortment of the usual south-seas characters along with some Asians with varying agendas. The cargo included a shipment of bombs and machine guns. She soon finds herself being held hostage and they will free her only if Dan agrees to pilot a bombing plane for some Chinese bandits.
You May Be Next!
Screenplay
Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
Escape from Devil's Island
Screenplay
Two men escape from the French penal colony but not from their jealousy over a woman.
Unknown Woman
Screenplay
A young attorney, Larry Condon, is on a retainer by a nightclub-owning gangster, to carry and deliver what he thinks are legal papers but he is innocently carrying around millions of dollars in stolen bonds. He meets Helen Griffith when she is arrested in a raid on a gambling house and befriends her. She talks him into taking her to the nightclub of the man he is working for and, while there and unobserved by anyone by Larry, he sees her going through the files and desk of the owner. Who is this mystery woman he just got released from jail, and what is she up to?
Death Flies East
Writer
Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate who accused her of the deed in the first place. On board the airliner, Evelyn makes the acquaintance of John Robinson Gordon (Nagel), who is transporting a revolutionary munitions formula to Washington, D.C. Another passenger, Baker (Robert Allen), complains of having been poisoned and leaves the plane during a stopover in Dallas. Back in the air, Gordon's bodyguard, Lieutenant O'Brien (Fred Kelsey), suffers the same fate, but this time the poison proves fatal. The plane returns to Dallas, where Police Captain Barrie (William B. Davidson) accused poor Evelyn of the crime. Happily, Gordon can prove otherwise and the real culprit is unmasked.
Fugitive Lady
Screenplay
In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.
Among the Missing
Writer
Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.
Name the Woman
Writer
Directed by Albert S. Rogell. With Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson.
The Hell Cat
Screenplay
Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw his crusade against the gamblers into disarray.
As Husbands Go
Writer
As Husbands Go charts the romantic misadventures of Lucille Lingard .
King of the Jungle
Screenplay
A white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
Virtuous Husband
Dialogue
When a rich young man marries, he lets the books and letters left him by his dead mother guide his life.
O Código Penal
Additional Dialogue
O promotor Mark Brady condena Robert Graham à prisão por assassinato. Em seguida, ele se torna o diretor do presídio onde Robert cumpre pena. Apesar de repelir a amizade de Mark (que acredita ser ele um bom sujeito, apesar de tudo...), Robert aceita ser seu motorista e apaixona-se por Mary, a filha de Mark, que corresponde. Certo dia, na prisão, o assassino Ned mata Runch, um delator. Robert, que testemunhou tudo, recusa-se a entregar Ned e Mark envia-o para a solitária. Mas Robert é durão e a situação fica nesse impasse até que Ned confessa.
O Código Penal
Adaptation
O promotor Mark Brady condena Robert Graham à prisão por assassinato. Em seguida, ele se torna o diretor do presídio onde Robert cumpre pena. Apesar de repelir a amizade de Mark (que acredita ser ele um bom sujeito, apesar de tudo...), Robert aceita ser seu motorista e apaixona-se por Mary, a filha de Mark, que corresponde. Certo dia, na prisão, o assassino Ned mata Runch, um delator. Robert, que testemunhou tudo, recusa-se a entregar Ned e Mark envia-o para a solitária. Mas Robert é durão e a situação fica nesse impasse até que Ned confessa.
The Woman Racket
Title Graphics
During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her wanting.