Arthur A. Ross

Morte : 2008-11-11

Filmes

Satan's School for Girls
Original Film Writer
A young woman enrolls at an all-girls college in New England to investigate her sister's suicide and is slowly lured into a witchcraft cult by a quartet of students wanting to make her their fifth member of their evil circle.
Brubaker
Story
Na prisão sulista de Wakefield, Henry Brubaker, o novo diretor, chega disfarçado de prisioneiro e assim convive com os detentos, podendo apurar livremente todos os tipos de corrupções e ilegalidades que imperam na instituição. Quando ele se revela encontra uma oposição velada, pois suas idéias reformistas contrariam vários interesses políticos e financeiros.
Love Is Not Enough
Writer
A black family leaves the ghetto of Detroit to look for a better life in Los Angeles.
The Desperate Miles
Story
A disabled Vietnam vet sets out to prove that disabled people don't have to be helpless by starting a 180-mile trip in a wheelchair. On the way he finds his life is endangered by a deranged truck driver.
The Desperate Miles
Screenplay
A disabled Vietnam vet sets out to prove that disabled people don't have to be helpless by starting a 180-mile trip in a wheelchair. On the way he finds his life is endangered by a deranged truck driver.
Satan's School for Girls
Writer
Satan's School for Girls is set within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls. Hoping to learn the truth behind the "suicide" of her younger sister, Beth Hammersmith enrolls in Fallbridge under the assumed name of Karen Oxford. Our heroine soon learns that the school is in the clutches of a coven of witches called "The Five" -- and that she herself has the right satanic qualities to enable The Five to take over the world
Once Upon a Tractor
Story
Short film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson.
A Corrida do Século
Original Story
O audacioso profissional Professor Fate e o herói branco Great Leslie convencem os fabricantes de automóveis do início do século de que uma corrida de Nova York a Paris (pelo oeste por todo os EUA, estreito de Bering. Rússia, Alemanha e França) ajudará a promover as vendas de automóveis. O arquirrival de Leslie, o professor Fate, amarfanhado e vestido de preto, prometeu chegar antes de Leslie na linha de chegada em um carro da própria invenção. Vão percorrer vários quilômetros, encarar muitas desavenças e enfrentar um imenso iceberg na corrida mais divertida de todos os tempos.
A Corrida do Século
Screenplay
O audacioso profissional Professor Fate e o herói branco Great Leslie convencem os fabricantes de automóveis do início do século de que uma corrida de Nova York a Paris (pelo oeste por todo os EUA, estreito de Bering. Rússia, Alemanha e França) ajudará a promover as vendas de automóveis. O arquirrival de Leslie, o professor Fate, amarfanhado e vestido de preto, prometeu chegar antes de Leslie na linha de chegada em um carro da própria invenção. Vão percorrer vários quilômetros, encarar muitas desavenças e enfrentar um imenso iceberg na corrida mais divertida de todos os tempos.
Funny Side of Life
Writer
A compilation of clips selected by Harold Lloyd that highlight his career.
As Viagens de Gulliver
Screenplay
Gulliver é um intrépido médico que embarca em busca de fama e fortuna nas míticas Índias Orientais, nesta adaptação do inesquecível clássico de Jonathan Swift. Durante as suas incríveis aventuras, descobrirá todos os segredos de Brobdingnag (a Terra dos Gigantes) e de Lilliput (a Terra dos Anões). Repleto de efeitos especiais e de truques de perspectiva nunca utilizados até esse momento, "As Viagens de Gulliver" é uma maravilhosa fantasia do mago dos efeitos especiais Ray Harryhausen.
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
Screenplay
In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a delivery boy who invents a machine which turns his girlfriend into a giantess.
À Caça do Monstro
Story
Seqüência de "A Revanche do Monstro", dirigido por Jack Arnold. Agora a criatura é capturada por cientistas que querem transformá-la em um ser humano.
À Caça do Monstro
Screenplay
Seqüência de "A Revanche do Monstro", dirigido por Jack Arnold. Agora a criatura é capturada por cientistas que querem transformá-la em um ser humano.
O Monstro da Lagoa Negra
Screenplay
Na Amazônia brasileira, o pesquisador Carl Maia fotografa o que parece ser a nadadeira de um anfíbio possivelmente extinto. Carl viaja para mostrar sua descoberta e obter apoio financeiro, mas ao retornar com outros pesquisadores, descobre que dois funcionários deles foram mortos. Eles rumam para a Lagoa Negra, onde acham uma misteriosa criatura anfíbia, que pode ser o elo perdido entre duas espécies - uma aquática e outra terrestre.
Levante dos Apaches
Screenplay
Sheriff Lane Dakota captures robbery-murder suspect Greiner just as the latter is wounded in an Apache ambush. At remote outpost Apache River, Lane and his prisoner spend the night with other travelers, including 2 women with a surprising number of fancy dresses. In the morning, who should appear but a band of ostensibly peaceful Apaches strayed from the reservation. And bigoted Colonel Morsby is strongly inclined to shoot first and ask questions afterward...
Levante dos Apaches
Story
Sheriff Lane Dakota captures robbery-murder suspect Greiner just as the latter is wounded in an Apache ambush. At remote outpost Apache River, Lane and his prisoner spend the night with other travelers, including 2 women with a surprising number of fancy dresses. In the morning, who should appear but a band of ostensibly peaceful Apaches strayed from the reservation. And bigoted Colonel Morsby is strongly inclined to shoot first and ask questions afterward...
Okinawa
Screenplay
On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt. Commander Hale, announces that they've been reassigned to the upcoming invasion of Okinawa. With the news turning the crew against him, Hale must rise to the occasion to keep his men inline.
Okinawa
Story
On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt. Commander Hale, announces that they've been reassigned to the upcoming invasion of Okinawa. With the news turning the crew against him, Hale must rise to the occasion to keep his men inline.
Revenue Agent
Writer
Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bellows. He telephones Internal Revenue Bureau that he can give evidence of a large tax-evasion racket. Before IRS-agent Steve Daniels arrives, King is murdered by a henchman of Bellows and his partner, Ernie Medford. Daniels discovers that Bellows and Medford are smuggling gold bullion from their mine in Mexico, and sell and bank the money under assumed names. they hide the bullion in a compartment welded to the bottom of a car.
Port of New York
Story
Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.
Kazan
Screenplay
Based on the novel by James Oliver Curwood about Kazan, the wolfdog.
Rusty Leads the Way
Screenplay
Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life, Penny resists all efforts to cope with her handicap. But with Rusty's help, the girl gains a new lease on life and agrees to adopt a seeing-eye dog.
Beat the Band
Adaptation
Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.
San Quentin
Screenplay
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
Vacation in Reno
Screenplay
A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead.
A Wife by Proxy
Director of Photography
The film opens in Ireland, as a dying Patrick McNairne tells his daughter Jerry to go to New York and look up Norton Burbeck, a wealthy young man whose life Patrick had saved some time earlier (the surviving print, largely complete, lacks the second page insert of a letter explaining the full background). The affable Burbeck is due to inherit his uncle’s fortune provided he’s married by November; if not, the inheritance will go to his cousin Howard Curtis. An adventuress, Beatrice Gaden, and her husband Dick are in cahoots with Curtis: Beatrice pretends to be single in order to string Norton along up to the November date, at which time Curtis will come into the money and give a share to his unscrupulous partners.