Richard Murphy

Nascimento : 1912-05-08,

Morte : 1993-05-19

Filmes

O Sequestro do Presidente
Screenplay
A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto.
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk
Adaptation
The Hardy Boys become owners of the Chinese junk Hai Hau. They head to New York City and go spelunking to break up a gang of criminals.
O Pior Calhambeque do Mundo
Screenplay
O Tenente Rip Crandall é enganado para assumir o comando do "Pior Calhambeque do Mundo" - um lixo de barco com uma tripulação de desajustados que não sabem a diferença entre popa e proa. O que nenhum deles sabe, incluindo Crandall, é que este barco tem uma muito importante missão secreta para cumprir em águas patrulhadas pela frota japonesa. Sua missão será salvar centenas de vidas aliadas - só eles podem chegar até lá inteiros.
O Pior Calhambeque do Mundo
Director
O Tenente Rip Crandall é enganado para assumir o comando do "Pior Calhambeque do Mundo" - um lixo de barco com uma tripulação de desajustados que não sabem a diferença entre popa e proa. O que nenhum deles sabe, incluindo Crandall, é que este barco tem uma muito importante missão secreta para cumprir em águas patrulhadas pela frota japonesa. Sua missão será salvar centenas de vidas aliadas - só eles podem chegar até lá inteiros.
The Last Angry Man
Adaptation
Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But when his nephew, would-be journalist Myron, writes an article about him, it draws the attention of a producer, Woodrow Thrasher, who believes Dr. Abelman a good candidate for a TV show. The doctor, however, is suspicious of the whole enterprise, thinking both Myron and Thrasher are simply out to make a fast buck.
Estranha Compulsão
Screenplay
Na Chicago da década de 20, dois ricos e arrogantes universitários pensam ter cometido o crime perfeito após o assassinato de um rapaz. Porém, um detalhe faz o plano ir por água abaixo.
Three Stripes in the Sun
Screenplay
A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.
Three Stripes in the Sun
Director
A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.
A Lança Partida
Screenplay
Spencer Tracy, é o patriarca de uma família de criadores de gado que vê tudo desmoronar quando seu filho mais novo é preso por defender as terras da família contra um grupo de mineiros que polui a região.
Ratos do Deserto
Writer
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
O Implacável
Writer
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his pursuit by the relentless policeman Javert, a pursuit that consumes both men's lives for many years.
Terrível Suspeita
Additional Writing
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
Agora Estamos na Marinha
Writer
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.
Pânico nas Ruas
Screenplay
Um médico e um policial em Nova Orleans têm apenas 48 horas para localizar um assassino infectado com peste pneumônica. Uma noite nas favelas de Nova Orleans, Blackie e seus amigos matam um imigrante ilegal que ganhou demais em um jogo de cartas. Na manhã seguinte, o Ten. Dr. Clint Reed, do Serviço de Saúde Pública, confirmou que o homem morto tinha peste pneumônica. Para evitar uma epidemia catastrófica, Clint deve encontrar e inocular os assassinos e seus associados, com a ajuda relutante do capitão da polícia Tom Warren, apesar do ceticismo oficial, e em total sigilo, para que o pânico não não se espalhe pela cidade. Pode um médico virar detetive? Ele tem 48 horas para tentar.
Furacão da Vida
Screenplay
A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the storm and recalls his failures, including a love affair with the wife of his best friend.
Uma Vida Marcada
Screenplay
O Tenente da polícia Candella, amigo de longa data da família Rome, anda na corda bamba no caso do assassino de policiais Martin Rome. O criminoso mesquinho e assassino de policiais Martin Rome, em mau estado na prisão do hospital devido a ferimentos, ainda se recusa a ajudar o malandro advogado Niles a limpar o nome do seu cliente confessando um outro crime. O Ten. Candella deve verificar a alegação de Niles, mas como é amigo da família de Rome, ele anda na corda bamba entre sua vontade e o cinismo. Quando Martin teme que o Ten. Candella envolva sua namorada Teena, ele fará qualquer coisa para protegê-la. Quantos outros Martin vai arrastar para o desastre com ele?
Deep Waters
Writer
A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.
O Justiceiro
Screenplay
Esta dramatização de um incidente real começa em uma tranquila cidade de Connecticut, onde um amável sacerdote é assassinado enquanto aguardava em uma esquina. Os cidadãos ficam horrorizados e exigem uma ação da polícia. Todas as testemunhas identificam John Waldron (Arthur Kennedy), um nervoso forasteiro, como o assassino. Embora Waldron negue veementemente o crime, ninguém vai acreditar nele. O promotor Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews) é então colocado no caso e enfrenta a oposição política em sua tentativa de provar a inocência de Waldron.
Wrecking Crew
Screenplay
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew in their lives away from the job and shows rhe comraderie of the crew in their work and even away from work.
X Marks the Spot
Screenplay
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.
Wildcat
Writer
Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the outskirts but have to sell a share to a promoter who hires Johnny's old enemy.
I Live on Danger
Screenplay
A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
The Cyclone Kid
Screenplay
A young doctor rejects his older outlaw brother Johnny who put him through medical school by dubious means. The brothers find themselves on opposite sides of a range war between homesteaders and a crooked cattleman.
Jesse James, Jr.
Story
Though Don "Red" Barry is the star of Jesse James, Jr., he plays a character named Johnny Barrett. The scene is a small western town, lacking telegraph service. Every time the locals try to set up communications with the Outside World, they are thwarted by an outlaw gang.
Jesse James, Jr.
Screenplay
Though Don "Red" Barry is the star of Jesse James, Jr., he plays a character named Johnny Barrett. The scene is a small western town, lacking telegraph service. Every time the locals try to set up communications with the Outside World, they are thwarted by an outlaw gang.
Flying Blind
Screenplay
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
The Singing Hill
Writer
If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land.
The Apache Kid
Screenplay
Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to Jimmy Cagney, stars in The Apache Kid. Barry plays Pete Dawson, a pugnacious cowboy who dons a mask and becomes a stagecoach robber. It's all in a good cause, however: Dawson is stealing from the town boss (Leroy Mason) who has ripped off a group of miners. Heroine Lynn Merrick is the daughter of the local judge, so naturally she misunderstands Barry's motives, at least until fadeout time.
The Apache Kid
Story
Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to Jimmy Cagney, stars in The Apache Kid. Barry plays Pete Dawson, a pugnacious cowboy who dons a mask and becomes a stagecoach robber. It's all in a good cause, however: Dawson is stealing from the town boss (Leroy Mason) who has ripped off a group of miners. Heroine Lynn Merrick is the daughter of the local judge, so naturally she misunderstands Barry's motives, at least until fadeout time.
Back in the Saddle
Writer
Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a man is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Now Gene not only has the dying cattle problem but his ranch owner is in jail.
Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
Writer
A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing laws in the U.S.A.