Lewis Meltzer

Nascimento : 1911-01-28, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 1995-02-23

Filmes

The Beat Generation
Writer
A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.
Escola do Vício
Screenplay
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.
Os Irmãos Rico
Screenplay
Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who are on the lam after a big hit, forcing Eddie to get involved with the Mafia again.
Folhas Mortas
Writer
A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
O Homem do Braço de Ouro
Screenplay
Um jogador que sonha em se tornar baterista de uma banda de jazz sai da prisão e retorna à sua cidade. Enquanto tenta se livrar da dependência das drogas e administra a complicada relação com sua esposa inválida, também se envolve com uma bela mulher, que lhe empresta o apartamento para praticar música.
Porto da Violência
Writer
William Castle directed this Sam Katzman production, a gritty crime thriller about a newly-discharged sailor who gets a job as a longshoreman in The Big Easy. He swiftly discovers mob corruption throughout the docks, and when a friend is killed by the gangsters, he convinces the police to let him go undercover and take matters into his own hands. Filmed on location on the docks and in the French Quarter.
Shark River
Screenplay
Nobody has an easy time of it in the costume actioner Shark River. Wanted for murder, Clay Webley (Warren Stevens) and his wounded cellmate Curtis Parker (Robert Cunningham) hack their way through the Florida swampland. With the help of Clay's brother Dan (Steve Cochran), Clay is able to elude the authorities, but Parker dies of a snakebite. Subsisting on alligator meat, Dan and Clay make their way to the tiny cabin inhabited by widowed Jane Daughterty (Carole Mathews), her mother-in-law, and her son Johnny (Spencer Fox). The brothers rest here awhile, formulating plans to cross the Gulf of Mexico and head for Cuba.
Desert Legion
Screenplay
A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.
O Cantor de Jazz
Screenplay
As Jerry Golding scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who'd hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowfully, Cantor Golding reads the Kaddish service, indicating that, so far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing the "Kol Nidre" in his ailing father's absence.
Embrutecidos Pela Violência
Screenplay
New Federal marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose son Ed was killed, still wants personal revenge, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him again. Can the marshal make it across the desert with Tim and his daughter? Even if he makes it, will justice be served?
Território Comanche
Story
Irmãos e vilões, Maureen O'Hara e Charles Drake vão perturbar o sossego dos comanches para garimpar prata. É então que surge o simpático desbravador MacDonald Carey, que, ao som de um beijo estalado, traz a moça de volta ao bom caminho. Mas o irmão dela é mau de nascença e a luta será cruenta.
Território Comanche
Screenplay
Irmãos e vilões, Maureen O'Hara e Charles Drake vão perturbar o sossego dos comanches para garimpar prata. É então que surge o simpático desbravador MacDonald Carey, que, ao som de um beijo estalado, traz a moça de volta ao bom caminho. Mas o irmão dela é mau de nascença e a luta será cruenta.
Viciada
Story
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
A Fera de Kumaon
Screenplay
Nas selvas um médico caça um tigre, vicioso comedor de homens, e experimenta uma pessoal mudança atraído pelos costumes e crenças dos nativos. .
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Screenplay
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
Aquela Mulher Ingrata
Screenplay
A boy from the country inherits $10 million, and decides to go to New York City to live it up.
O Eterno Pretendente
Screenplay
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.
Destroyer
Screenplay
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
The Tuttles of Tahiti
Screenplay
After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. But opening a joint bank account in the name of the Tuttle clan may not have been a wise decision.
New York Town
Screenplay
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Gloriosa Vingança
Screenplay
1866. Logo após o fim da guerra civil ()1861-1865), dois antigos combatentes, vagam pelo Texas em busca de dinheiro, comida e trabalho. Porém, apenas encontram problemas. Primeiro convertem-se em pugilistas, profissionais de boxe, logo presenciam um assalto a uma diligência, e conseguem arrebatar o dinheiro dos ladrões e horas depois estão a frente de um grupo de homens que querem enforcá-los. Um lindo faroeste, com tintas românticas que mostra como pano de fundo a dispusta de dois homens pelo amor de uma mulher.
Those High Grey Walls
Screenplay
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
Conflito de Duas Almas
Screenplay
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to by a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
Alucinação
Screenplay
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.