Abem Finkel

Filmes

The Tender Years
Adaptation
A progressive pastor takes on thoughtless brutality (and constitutional scruples against search and seizure) in order to promote animal cruelty protection laws.
Time Out Of Mind
Screenplay
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
A Mão que Nos Guia
Screenplay
Robert L. Scott sonhou toda a sua vida de ser um piloto de caça, mas quando a guerra chega ele encontra-se voando em aviões de transporte na China. Na China, ele convence general Chennault para deixá-lo voar com os Tigres Voadores, famosos pilotos que estavam lutando contra os japoneses muito antes de Pearl Harbor. Scott consegue a sua chance de lutar, em última análise, enfrentar em combate o piloto japonês conhecido Tokyo Joe.
O Coração de uma Cidade
Screenplay
Uma garota americana estrelando num music hall britânico se apaixona por um piloto da RAF. Um fotógrafo da revista Life vai a Londres para fazer uma materia sobre uma trupe de teatro musical local que nunca perdeu uma apresentação durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Flashbacks também revelam o caso de amor nos bastidores entre a estrela Rosalind Bruce e um aviador Lider de Esquadrão da RAF Paul Lundy.
The Hundred Pound Window
Writer
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
O Manda-Chuva
Writer
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
Sargento York
Screenplay
Alvin Cullum York (Gary Cooper) vive é um soldado pacifista que terá que deixar suas crenças cristãs de lado para participar do front na Primeira Guerra Mundial. Vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Ator (Gary Cooper) e Melhor Montagem, indicado a outras nove categorias.
Novos Horizontes
Screenplay
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
Jezebel
Screenplay
Em 1852, em Nova Orleans, uma jovem egocêntrica da aristocracia local provoca o rompimento do seu noivado ao usar um vestido vermelho, quando as moças deviam usar branco. Apesar de seu antigo noivo se casar com outra mulher, ela continua amando-o. Ela tem a grande chance de lhe provar que realmente deixou de ser uma jovem mimada quando uma peste se abate sobre a cidade. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
That Man's Here Again
Writer
An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her as a maid at the building.
Mulher Marcada
Screenplay
Policial persuade "dançarina de clube noturno" a testemunhar contra seu chefe mafioso depois que a sua irmã inocente é acidentalmente assassinada.
Legião Negra
Screenplay
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Public Enemy's Wife
Screenplay
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.
Road Gang
Story
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
Nas Garras da Lei
Screenplay
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
Inferno Negro
Screenplay
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
Hi, Nellie!
Screenplay
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.