Tom Reed

Filmes

A Sombra da Noite
Story
Um soldado americano é sequestrado pelos russos em Berlim Ocidental e seu pai, o industrial Charles Leatherby, exige que as autoridades se mexam. Sua fúria é aplacada pelo Coronel Steve Van Dyke, responsável pelo caso. Van Dyke explica a ele que para ter o filho de volta, seria preciso trocá-lo por um idoso casal alemão antinazista, que certamente seria morto pelos comunistas. Enquanto investiga, Van Dyke descobre que um de seus agentes mais importantes, a jovem ‘Hoffy’ Hoffmeier, trabalha para os Vermelhos. Com isso, ele vislumbra a possibilidade dela substituir o casal na troca.
Choque de Paixões
Writer
In a small village in the icy wilderness of Alaska Captain Peter Keith has to defend himself against two especially mean villains, who are after his wife Dolores and a boatload of precious hides.
The Light Touch
Story
An art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.
Três Grandes Amigos
Writer
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
David Harding, Counterspy
Screenplay
A Counterspy in the US military is killed under suspicious circumstances. His friend, Jerry Baldwin, a Navy Commander, is assigned to replace him and stop a saboteur in a torpedo factory.
Red Stallion In The Rockies
Writer
Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...
The Untamed Breed
Screenplay
A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a story by Eli Colter that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.
The Spirit of West Point
Writer
The story of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, two All-American football players at the U.S. Army Military Academy at West Point.
Rosas Trágicas
Writer
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a `lady.'
Two Tickets to London
Screenplay
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
Ódio e Paixão
Screenplay
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Writer
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
A Indomável
Screenplay
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.
Hello, Annapolis
Original Story
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
Ordinário, Marche!
Lieutenant (uncredited)
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.
Três Horas Trágicas
Screenplay
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
On Dress Parade
Screenplay
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
Marry the Girl
Screenplay
Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
O Grande O'Malley
Screenplay
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
The Captain's Kid
Screenplay
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
Love Begins at Twenty
Screenplay
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Screenplay
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
Mary Jane's Pa
Screenplay
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
A Noiva de Frankenstein
Additional Writing
O filme começa de onde o original, de 1931, terminou: Frankenstein escapa do cerco ao moinho vivo, enquanto Dr. Frankenstein tem sua noiva sequestrada por outro lunático cientista. O objetivo dele é convencer o doutor a criar uma companheira para o monstro.
A Noiva Curiosa
Screenplay
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
The Florentine Dagger
Screenplay
A playwright descended from the Borgias family becomes a murder suspect.
Babbitt
Adaptation
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
The Man with Two Faces
Screenplay
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite
Paraíso das Surpresas
Additional Dialogue
ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert. Their lonely lives become much more crowded when a drifter discovers gold on the property—though all he’s found is Slim’s missing filling. (adapted from MoMA capsule)
Bombay Mail
Writer
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
S.O.S. Iceberg
Screenplay
An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic the year before. This is the English language version of the German film S.O.S. Eisberg (1933), made at the same time but with a slightly different cast and released later that year. The German film is approximately 10 minutes longer.
Laughter in Hell
Writer
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
Afraid to Talk
Writer
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
Radio Patrol
Screenplay
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
Law and Order
Writer
A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.
Os Assassinos da Rua Morgue
Screenplay
Em 1845, em Paris, o cientista louco Dr. Mirakle sequestra mulheres jovens e as injeta com sangue de macaco para criar uma companheira para Erik, seu macaco falante de show secundário. Pierre Dupin, um jovem e ingênuo estudante de medicina e detetive, a noiva de Pierre, Camille L'Espanaye, e seus amigos Paul e Mignette, visitam o show secundário de Mirakle, onde expõem Erik. Tanto Mirakle quanto seu servo Janos estão encantados por Camille, que Mirakle planeja como companheira de Erik. Mirakle convida Camille para dar uma olhada em Erik, que agarra seu chapéu. Pierre tenta recuperar o capô, mas Erik tenta estrangulá-lo. Mirakle restringe Erik e se oferece para substituir o capô, mas Camille desconfia e reluta em dar seu endereço ao médico. Quando Pierre e Camille partem, Mirakle ordena que Janos os siga.
A Ponte de Waterloo
Screenplay
Myra, uma "dançarina" de revista, passa por dificuldades e acaba se prostituindo, durante a primeira guerra mundial. Durante um ataque aéreo, ela conhece Roy, um jovem que se alistou no exército canadense e os dois logo se apaixonam, mas ela oculta dele o seu passado.
The Boudoir Diplomat
Dialogue
A ladies' man flirts with the wives of other governments' officials.
The Boudoir Diplomat
Screenplay
A ladies' man flirts with the wives of other governments' officials.
East is West
Writer
East Is West
Dialogue
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
East Is West
Screenplay
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
The Storm
Dialogue
Burr and Dave, two close friends who have backed each other up in countless difficulties, are torn apart by the arrival of a woman, Manette, who becomes stranded with them in their cabin during a raging blizzard.
Hell's Heroes
Adaptation
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.
The Last Performance
Writer
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
Show Boat
Dialogue Editor
This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel
Scandal
Dialogue
1929 picture starring Laura La Plante, Huntley Gordon, and John Boles.
The Girl on the Barge
Dialogue
The illiterate daughter of a drunken, nasty sea captain falls in love with a tugboat pilot. Her father disapproves of the relationship, and is determined to do everything he can to break it up.
Synthetic Sin
Title Graphics
A young woman impulsively marries a young playwright who whisks her away to New York promises her a role in his next production. Unfortunately the production is a disaster and her husband proclaims her unfit for the role. Rather then return home in defeat, she stays in New York and accidentally gets involved with some vicious gangsters.
The Last Warning
Writer
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
The First Kiss
Title Designer
The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home, and three of his sons (William, Carol, and Ezra) are lazy, shiftless young men. Mulligan, Pap's second son who supports the entire family by oyster fishing, falls in love with wealthy Anna Lee, but when he first kisses her, she calls him "white trash."
Finders Keepers
Screenplay
Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.
Wild Beauty
Writer
A soldier returns home from World War I with a beautiful black horse that he saved on the battlefield, and names Thunderhoof. He enters the horse in a local race, hoping to earn enough money to save the family ranch of the girl he loves. However, the crooks intent on taking the ranch manage to capture a notorious wild horse and enter it in the same race, believing that it can beat Thunderhoof and thereby ensure that they're able to take the ranch.
Out All Night
Writer
A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.