Jack Otterson

Nascimento : 1905-08-25, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Morte : 1991-12-22

História

John Edward (Jack) Otterson (August 25, 1905 - December 22, 1991) was an American art director who worked on more than 300 films between 1934 and 1953 and was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.

Filmes

Planet Outlaws
Art Direction
A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Feature version of the film serial Buck Rogers by Universal Pictures, 1940.
The Vigilantes Return
Art Direction
Marshal Johnnie Taggart (Jon Hall) , posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright of the infamous Bull Whip saloon. But "bad-girl" Kitty keeps her mouth shut. When Johnnie's pal Andy reports a stage holdup, Curtwright's henchman, Ben Borden, talks the sheriff and Judge Holden into suspecting Johnnie. Johnnie reveals himself to Judge Holden as a government marshal, and the judge voices his opinion that Curtwright is the leader of the road agents, but voices it in the presence of his granddaughter, Louise Holden. The Judge doesn't know that Louise is in love with Curtwright, and she tips him off as to Johnnie's real identity. Curtwright frames Johnnie for a murder and arranges for the crooked sheriff to promote a lynching and Andy and Kitty help Johnnie escape jail. Johnnie rounds up vigilantes and heads for a showdown at the Bull Whip saloon
No Limiar da Glória
Art Direction
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
Os Assassinos
Art Direction
Pistoleiros matam uma vítima que não resiste, e o investigador Reardon descobre seu envolvimento passado com a bela e mortal Kitty Collins. Dois assassinos profissionais invadem uma pequena cidade e matam um atendente de posto de gasolina, "o sueco", que os espera sem opor nenhuma resistência. O investigador de seguros Reardon investiga o caso contra as ordens de seu chefe, que considera o caso trivial. Juntando os fios da vida do sueco, Reardon descobre uma complexa história de traição e crime, tudo ligando com a deslumbrante e misteriosa Kitty Collins.
Lawless Breed
Art Direction
Government agents Ted Everett and Tumbleweed are sent to Spearville, Texas, where the law agencies have failed to stop a series of bank robberies. Arriving incognito, they become involved with the gang, and end up being accused of murdering banker Bartlet Mellon. They escape a lynch mob and return with evidence that Mellon has faked his death, hoping to gain the insurance, and is also leading the gang under another name.
The Time of Their Lives
Art Direction
Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
Anjo Diabólico
Art Direction
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
The Dark Horse
Art Direction
This 1946 film stars Phillip Terry as a war veteran, who is persuaded by machine politico Donald MacBride to run for alderman. Ann Savage plays the "honest government functionary" with whom the hero falls in love. Terry finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record to push through some shady legislation, so he renounces these hacks.
Her Adventurous Night
Art Direction
A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.
Melodia Fatal
Art Direction
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
A Mulher-Lobo de Londres
Art Direction
Os cidadãos de Londres, em véspera de virada de século, estão apavorados e a Scotland Yard está confusa com a misteriosa série de sangrentos assassinatos no mais famoso parque da cidade. Em uma propriedade próxima, Phyllis Allenby (June Lockhart) teme que a maldição de Allenby, responsável pela morte de seus pais, tenha a transformado em uma mulher-lobo. Assombrada por seus sonhos e preocupada em ficar louca, Phyllis termina o seu noivado com seu noivo (Don Porter). Determinado em provar que a mulher que ele ama não poderia ser uma assassina, ele trama um jeito de desmascarar o verdadeiro assassino.
Strange Conquest
Art Direction
Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.
Blonde Alibi
Art Direction
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
Little Miss Big
Art Direction
A wealthy eccentric women escapes from a mental institution and finds refuge with a financially strapped barber and his two daughters
It Comes Up Love
Art Direction
This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a flirtation parallel with that of their elders, Louise Allbritton and Ian Hunter.
Sherlock Holmes em Washington
Art Direction
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
Hi'ya, Chum
Art Direction
Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.
Sherlock Holmes e a Arma Secreta
Art Direction
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he shortly falls into the clutches of Professor Moriarty.
As Mil e Uma Noites
Production Design
Neste incrível épico das Arábias, os personagens das histórias que encantaram leitores no mundo todo ganham vida com toda a sua paixão e glória através da história de irmãos que lutam entre si pelo poder político e pelo amor de Sherazade (interpretada pela encantadora e carismática Maria Montez). Contando com um elenco memorável, cenários suntuosos e figurinos exóticos, “As Mil e Uma Noites” é um clássico imperdível que já encantou platéias de todas as idades no mundo todo!
The Great Impersonation
Art Direction
An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.
Mug Town
Art Direction
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
Madame Spy
Art Direction
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
The Old Chisholm Trail
Art Direction
Dusty Gardner, and other Texas ranchers, are driving a herd of cattle to Abilene, Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. Desperate need of water takes them to the Turner ranch, where Belle Turner demands exorbitant prices for the water. Dusty learns that Belle is also trying to oust Mary Lee and Montana Smith from the trading post Mary operates. The sheriff sides with Belle following a fight between the two women. Belle knows there is artesian springs under the land the trading post occupies and intends to get the property by any means.
Little Joe, the Wrangler
Art Direction
Mining executive Neal Wallace arrives to investigate the losses at a gold mine and is immediately framed for murder. The murderers then incite a lynch mob but the Sheriff lets him go. Wallace eventually convinces the Sheriff of his innocence and the two then work together to get the gang that is looting the gold ore.
Quem é o Culpado?
Art Direction
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
A Tumba da Múmia
Art Direction
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).
Night Monster
Art Direction
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Destination Unknown
Art Direction
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
Get Hep to Love
Art Direction
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
Half Way to Shanghai
Art Direction
A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
Pardon My Sarong
Art Direction
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
O Agente Invisível
Art Direction
Os alemães desejam comprar a fórmula da invisibilidade com o filho do Dr. Frank Griffin. Este por sua vez, não vende a fórmula, e os Estados Unidos no período da Segunda Guerra Mundial, também desejam o produto. Mas Frank Raymond resolve dar a fórmula com a condição de que ele mesmo a tome e se infiltre nos quartéis generais dos nazistas, a fim de pegar um caderno com o nome de todos agentes duplos infiltrados nos Estados Unidos e também evitar um grande ataque em massa à Nova York que planejaram. Com a ajuda na Alemanha de Maria Soreson (Ilona Massey), o agente invisível poderá auxiliar na Guerra mais do que mil espiões juntos.
The Silver Bullet
Art Direction
A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible.
Drums of the Congo
Art Direction
A safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle.
There's One Born Every Minute
Art Direction
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.
Eagle Squadron
Art Direction
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
A Indomável
Art Direction
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
Danger in the Pacific
Art Direction
Scientist-explorer David Lynd leaves wealthy bride-to-be June Claymore at the altar to join photographer Andy Parker and British secret service agent Leo Marzeli in search of rare minerals. They soon run afoul of crooked trader Tagani, who's been busily stockpiling weapons in the hills on behalf of his Nazi partners.
Tough as They Come
Art Direction
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.
Escape from Hong Kong
Art Direction
Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.
Sabotador
Art Direction
O excitante thriller do tempo de guerra, realizado por Alfred Hitchcock em 1942, estrelando Robert Cummings no papel de operário de uma fábrica de aviões de Los Angeles que testemunha o bombardeamento da fábrica por um agente Nazista. Durante a mortífera explosão, o melhor amigo de Cummings morre e ele próprio é erroneamente acusado de sabotagem. Para limpar o seu nome, Cummings inicia uma inexorável perseguição através do país que o leva de Boulder Dam ao Radio City Music Hall, em Nova Iorque e, finalmente, a um perigoso confronto no topo da Estátua da Liberdade. O primeiro filme de Hitchcock com um elenco totalmente norte-americano, desenrola-se a uma velocidade alucinante até atingir um clímax de arrepiar, criando uma excitante obra de artes do suspense.
O Fatídico Caso do Doutor Rx
Art Direction
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
O Fantasma de Frankenstein
Art Direction
Ygor ressuscita o monstro de Frankenstein e leva-o até o filho do médico original, Ludwig, em busca de ajuda.
Frisco Lil
Art Direction
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster.
Unseen Enemy
Art Direction
The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront café. To make enough money to ensure his daughter Gen's (Irene Hervey) entree into society, Nick sells his services to a gang of foreign spies, who then use Nick's establishment as a rendezvous point. The plan is to covertly send out a Japanese vessel for the purpose of raiding and destroying American merchant ships. The spies' secret code is hidden in the lyrics of a song called "Lydia", which the unwitting Gen performs on request day after day.
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
Art Direction
A fugitive doctor (Lionel Atwill) tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.
What's Cookin'?
Art Direction
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
Cavalheiros da Galhofa
Art Direction
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
Sealed Lips
Art Direction
There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee suspects that something's amiss, and he's probably right!
Hellzapoppin'
Art Direction
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
O Lobisomem
Art Direction
O clássico de terror original que apresentou um dos mais abomináveis monstros do cinema! Lon Chaney jr. retrata Larry Talbot, que regressa ao castelo do seu pai (Claude Rains) no País de Gales e encontra uma bela mulher (Evelyn Ankers). Numa noite fatídica, Talbot acompanha-a a uma festa local onde o destino de Jenny é revelado por uma misteriosa cigana. As atmosferas de sonho e os cenários aprimorados, combinados com uma trilha sonora arrepiante tornam "O Lobisomem" numa obra-prima não só do gênero, mas também de todos os tempos!
Dois Aviadores Avariados
Production Design
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.
Appointment for Love
Art Direction
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
The Masked Rider
Art Direction
The beautiful owner of a silver mine in Mexico asks an employee for help when bandits keep robbing her shipments.
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Art Direction
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
It Started with Eve
Art Direction
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
Man from Montana
Art Direction
A sheriff tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders.
Unfinished Business
Art Direction
With Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster, and Eugene Pallette. This sublime film exemplifies La Cava’s gift for creating comedies that contain a profound depth of feeling. Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between Irene Dunne, a small-town girl in the big city, and Robert Montgomery, the brother of the man who has heartlessly seduced and abandoned her. Their love affair is all the more affecting for taking place against a backdrop of heartbreak and alcoholism, all conveyed under the guise of comedy. UNFINISHED BUSINESS is truly one of the most remarkable Hollywood films of the 1940s.
A Dangerous Game
Art Direction
Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to steal a fortune inherited by one of the patients and, before Dick and Andy solve the case, several patients are transferred to the cemetery. And 'tiddlie-winks" are indeed involved.
Segure o Fantasma
Art Direction
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Rawhide Rangers
Art Direction
A group of frontier businessmen set up a protective organization for the purpose of extorting money from the local ranchers.
Paixão Fatal
Art Direction
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
Cracked Nuts
Art Direction
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...
Law of the Range
Art Direction
The Wolverine Kid kills a man and it looks like Steve Howard did it. But Steve's father recognizes the bullet as coming from the gun owned by the Kid.
Hello, Sucker
Art Direction
A young couple buy a bankrupt vaudeville booking agency, and try to make it a success.
Marinheiros de Água Doce
Art Direction
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
O Gato Negro
Art Direction
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
Model Wife
Art Direction
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
Horror Island
Art Direction
A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
O Monstro Elétrico
Art Direction
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
The Man Who Lost Himself
Art Direction
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.
So Ends Our Night
Art Direction
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
Nice Girl?
Art Direction
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes.
Ordinário, Marche!
Art Direction
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
Where Did You Get That Girl?
Art Direction
In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs. Songs include: "Where Did You Get That Girl?" (Harry Puck, Bert Kalmar, sung by Helen Parrish), "Sergeant Swing," "Rug-Cuttin' Romeo" (Milton Rosen, Everett Carter).
Lucky Devils
Art Direction
Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid newsreel cameramen. When they're not risking their lives coverning the Hot Spots of the world, Dick (Arlen) and Andy (Devine) busy themselves romancing Norma (Dorothy Lovett) and Gwendy (Janet Shaw), respectively.
A Mulher Invisível
Art Direction
O excêntrico Professor Gibbs, brilhante, mas pouco prático, inventa uma máquina de invisibilidade e põe um anúncio para uma cobaia. Ele recebe uma candidata, Kitty Carroll, uma modelo atraente e aventureira, que acha que ser invisível a ajudaria a resolver algumas pendências. As complicações surgem quando três bandidos atrapalhados roubam a máquina para usar no seu chefe.
San Francisco Docks
Art Direction
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who has been annoying her. Cassidy is murdered that night and Johnny is jailed for the crime. Kitty, her father Andy Tracy, and waterfront-priest Father Cameron believe Johnny is innocent but all evidence points to his guilt.
Trail of the Vigilantes
Art Direction
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
O Guarda
Art Direction
Um homem trapalhão e beberrão, zombado pela própria filha de sete anos e atormentado pela esposa, vive aventuras e confusões sendo substituto de diretor de cinema e confundido com herói de assalto a banco.
One Night in the Tropics
Art Direction
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.
A Pecadora
Art Direction
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
Slightly Tempted
Art Direction
A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.
A Mão da Múmia
Art Direction
A cômica dupla de arqueólogos Steve (Dick Foran) e Babe (Wallace Ford) estão viajando pelo Egito quando descobrem evidências do local de sepultamento da antiga princesa egípcia Ananka. Depois de receber financiamento de um excêntrico mágico (Cecil Kellaway) e sua bela filha Marta (Peggy Moran), eles partem para o deserto onde são aterrorizados por um sinistro sumo sacerdote (George Zucco) e a múmia Kharis (Tom Tyler), que são os guardiões do túmulo de Ananka. Sequência de "A Múmia" (1932).
The Leather Pushers
Art Direction
A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.
Hired Wife
Art Direction
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
When the Daltons Rode
Art Direction
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
South to Karanga
Art Direction
Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.
Riders of Pasco Basin
Art Direction
Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and forms a vigilante group to fight the Sheriff and his deputies brought in by Kirby. But a dying Uncle Dan sets the Sheriff straight and this brings the two sides together for the big shootout.
It's a Date
Art Direction
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
A Casa das Sete Torres
Art Direction
A decadência da família Pyncheon é simbolizada no aspecto sombrio de sua mansão, em cujas fundações estão a ganância, a traição e a arrogância. Persistirá o mal, como terrível maldição, enquanto sobreviverem os últimos Pyncheons.
Sexta-Feira 13
Art Direction
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
Framed
Art Direction
A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.
Minha Dengosa
Art Direction
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Inferno Verde
Art Direction
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
A Volta do Homem Invisível
Art Direction
Preso sob a acusação de ter matado seu irmão, Geoffrey Radcliffe aguarda sua sentenção - morrer na forca. Mas, logo depois de receber a visita de seu amigo Dr. Frank Griffin, Geoffrey simplesmente desaparece. O inspetor policial Sampson começa a investigar e acredita que Griffin é na verdade o irmão do Homem Invisível original (do primeiro filme) e deu a Geoffrey a fórmula da invisibilidade. Continuação do clássico de 1933.
The Big Guy
Art Direction
A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
Atire a Primeira Pedra
Art Direction
Homem que controla pequena cidade mata xerife e elege um vagabundo para substituí-lo. O que ele não sabe é que o rapaz não irá se dobrar.
A Torre de Londres
Art Direction
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Call a Messenger
Art Direction
A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it.
Rio
Art Direction
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
The Witness Vanishes
Art Direction
In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.
Noite de Pecado
Art Direction
Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philip Chagal accidentally meets Helen Lawrence in a restaurant where she is a waitress. Unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness, he is attracted to her and they make a date to go sailing, arriving at Philip's country home just as a storm is breaking. Helen learns who he is for the first time, a celebrated-and-famous concert pianist and, falling in love with him, decides to leave before matters go further. A hurricane hits and their car is crippled by a falling tree. Rising water forces then to seek shelter in the choir loft of a church, where they spend the night.
A Casa Mal-Assombrada
Art Direction
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
The Sun Never Sets
Art Direction
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
Ex-Champ
Art Direction
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
For Love or Money
Art Direction
To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in jeopardy when they accidently fumble $50,000 worth of the bookie's cash over to the secretary who wastes no time in spending $44,000 of it in less than 8 hours. The bookkeepers are given 36 hours to get all of the money back by their infuriated boss.
Mystery of the White Room
Art Direction
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
O Filho de Frankenstein
Co-Art Director
Barão Wolf von Frankenstein quer limpar o nome da família da desgraça. Com a ajuda de Ygor, Wolf consegue reanimar o monstro que seu pai criou. Mas quando vários aldeões são mortos misteriosamente, Wolf deverá encontrar o culpado.
Piratas das Nuvens
Art Direction
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
Gambling Ship
Art Direction
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
Letter of Introduction
Art Direction
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
Danger on the Air
Art Direction
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
The Rage of Paris
Art Direction
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
Wives Under Suspicion
Art Direction
A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
The Devil's Party
Art Direction
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
Sinners in Paradise
Art Direction
The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must learn to get along and work together if they are to convince Taylor to let them borrow his boat and return to the main land.
Mad About Music
Art Direction
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.
Midnight Intruder
Art Direction
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
The Jury's Secret
Art Direction
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
You're a Sweetheart
Art Direction
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
Armored Car
Art Direction
Larry Willis and Bill Wane are security guards who ride in the back of Banks Co. armored trucks. When they barely avoid a robbery, they return to headquarters, where their boss John Hale introduces them to detective Tom Sheridan, who will be working with them to uncover a new gang of robbers.
Wings Over Honolulu
Art Direction
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
Let Them Live
Art Direction
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
A Chave Noturna
Art Direction
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
We Have Our Moments
Art Direction
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
The Mighty Treve
Art Direction
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
Mysterious Crossing
Art Direction
While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses it all in a crap game. Outside on deck, Murphy sees two men shaking hands, and after he looks away, hears a splash of water and discovers both men have disappeared...
Love Letters of a Star
Art Direction
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
The Magnificent Brute
Art Direction
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
Show Them No Mercy!
Art Direction
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
Thanks a Million
Art Direction
A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be replaced in doing his campaign speech by the troupe crooner, Eric Land, his political backers decide that they want him to run for Governor in the Judge's place. Romance, music, political corruption and the election results follow.
Doubting Thomas
Art Direction
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
Marie Galante
Art Direction
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt leaves Marie high and dry in the Yucatan, she takes work as a nightclub singer to earn her safe passage to the Canal region. But Marie faces bigger problems when she gets mixed up in a destructive plot against the U.S. Naval fleet, and so she accepts the kindly assistance of secret agent Dr. Crawbett.
Quando New York Dorme
Settings
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
O Seu Primeiro Amor
Set Decoration
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.