Rowland Brown

Nascimento : 1900-11-06, Canton, Ohio, U.S.

Morte : 1963-05-06

História

Rowland Brown (November 6, 1900 – May 6, 1963), born Chauncey Rowland Brown in Canton, Ohio, was an American screenwriter and film director, whose career as a director ended in the early 1930s after he started many more films than he finished. He walked out of State's Attorney (1932), starring John Barrymore. He was abruptly replaced as director of The Scarlet Pimpernel. As a writer, he was credited with twenty or so films including two Academy Award nominations, one in the 11th Academy Awards for Best Original Story Angels with Dirty Faces and another in the 4th Academy Awards for Doorway to Hell.

Filmes

Os Quatro Desconhecidos
Story
Foster projeta um exuberante esquema para assaltar um carro forte de Kansas City. Ele recruta três dos mais cruéis e impiedosos criminosos para empreender o assalto, chantageando-os com incriminantes provas de outros "trabalhos". Foster obriga cada criminoso a usar máscaras, a fim de esconderem suas identidades um dos outros e prevenir o velho perigo de traição. O assalto é realizado sem problema, até que a polícia captura Joe Rolfe que não participou do assalto. Com o tempo, Rolfe é solto, mas fica inconformado. Finalmente, e por coincidência, encontra um dos criminosos no México, quase o mata de pancada, e então assume sua identidade. Aí, as coisas realmente se complicam.
O Tesouro do Bandoleiro
Additional Dialogue
Para encontrar o ouro roubado, agente do Governo trabalha secretamente com um fora da lei.
Noturno
Story
O detetive Joe Warner investiga o assassinato do compositor mulherengo Keith Vincent. Evidências apontam para suicídio e este acaba sendo o veredito oficial, mas Joe não acredita e obsessivamene continua a investigar.
Johnny Apollo
Screenplay
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
Anjos de Cara Suja
Story
Rocky (James Cagney) e Jerry (Pat O'Brien) são dois amigos de infância que viviam em um bairro barra-pesada de Nova York. Depois de crescidos, eles tomam rumos bem diferentes: Rocky se torna um famoso gângster e Jerry um padre engajado. As crianças da vizinhança idolatram o criminoso, mas perdem um pouco de respeito depois que ele cede aos pedidos de Jerry para não fazer uma execução. O caminho dos dois vai se cruzar, assim como seus interesses diversos.
Boy of the Streets
Story
Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.
O Diabo é um Poltrão
Story
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
Blood Money
Writer
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
Blood Money
Director
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
Hell's Highway
Writer
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.
Hell's Highway
Director
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.
What Price Hollywood?
Writer
A carreira de um garçonete decola quando ela conhece um amável bêbado produtor de Hollywood.
State's Attorney
Dialogue
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
State's Attorney
Screenplay
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
Skyline
Writer
Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.
Quick Millions
Director
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
Quick Millions
Screenplay
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
The Doorway to Hell
Story
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
Fugitives
Writer
Nightclub singer Alice Carroll is found in the office of club owner Al Barrow, who is lying dead on the floor. Alice has been overheard threatening to kill Barrow rather than give in to his advances. She protests her innocence, but the District Attorney doesn't believe her and charges her with Barrow's murder. However, things aren't quite as cut-and-dried as the D.A. believes them to be.
Points West
Scenario Writer
Cole Lawson Jr. goes undercover as a bandit to infiltrate the gang responsible for his father's death.