Sam Nelson

Nascimento : 1896-05-11, Whttier, California, USA

Morte : 1963-05-01

História

Sam Nelson was a director and assistant director who worked from the end of the silent era right up through the early 1960s. While most of his film work was in the assistant director role, he did direct over 20 films during the 1930s and 1940s, all of which were westerns. As an assistant director he worked on such notable films as Pennies from Heaven, And Then There Were None, All the King's Men, the original 3:10 to Yuma, Some Like It Hot, A Raisin in the Sun, and Spartacus. In addition he appeared in over a dozen films in small roles. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Filmes

Escravas do Medo
Assistant Director
A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.
By Love Possessed
Assistant Director
An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.
O Sol Tornará a Brilhar
Assistant Director
A família Younger, frustada com a vida em seu espremido apartamento em Chicago, vê a chegada de um cheque de dez mil dólares de um seguro como a resposta para suas preces. A matriarca Lena Younger imediatamente usa-o como parte do pagamento de uma casa num subúrbio cujos vizinhos são, em sua maioria, brancos. Mas a família se divide quando Lena confia a aplicação do dinheiro ao irrequieto filho Walter Lee, contra os desejos de sua filha e da nora.
O Pior Calhambeque do Mundo
Assistant 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.
Cavalgada Trágica
Assistant Director
Um homem salva uma garota que havia sido sequestrada por Comanches, em seguida, se esforça para voltarem para casa vivos. Loner "Solitário" Cody negocia com os Comanches para libertar uma garota branca que tinha sido sequestrada. Ele é acompanhado em seu caminho de volta para o marido da garota por um bandido e seus capangas. Acontece que há uma grande recompensa para quem salve a garota, e com os índios em pé de guerra e o bandido ser um velho inimigo de Cody, as coisas são resolvidas em vários confrontos.
Quanto Mais Quente Melhor
Assistant Director
Em 1929, Joe e Jerry, dois músicos desempregados, testemunham sem querer o cruel Massacre do Dia de São Valentim. Desesperados para não serem pegos pelos gangsters, eles se disfarçam de mulheres e entram para um grupo feminino musical, que está indo para Miami fazer shows. Joe se apaixona por Sugar, a garota problema do grupo, enquanto um milionário se apaixona pelo disfarce de Jerry, tudo isso em meio a uma convenção de criminosos, que também está acontecendo em Miami.
A Dois Passos da Forca
Assistant Director
As a youth, Eddie came into the town with his gang to rob the bank, but was caught and convicted. Marshal Ben helped him to become a honorable citizen. Now, many years later, the gang returns to again rob the bank. On their flight they shoot the Marshal. Eddie is the only one to identify the murderer - but is in doubt if he shall be loyal to his new or his old friends.
O Último Hurrah
Assistant Director
Em um mundo em mudança onde a televisão se tornou a principal fonte de informação, um jovem jornalista testemunha como seu tio, Frank Skeffington, um político veterano e honesto, prefeito de uma cidade da Nova Inglaterra, tenta ser reeleito enquanto banqueiros e empresários conspiram na sombra para colocar um candidato fraco e manejável no conselho da cidade.
Como Nasce um Bravo
Assistant Director
Frank Harris, funcionário de um hotel em Chicago, sonha com a vida de cowboy, e tem sua chance quando, abandonado pelo pai da mulher que ama, se junta a Tom Reece com sua roupa de vaqueiro. Logo, porém, o novato descobre que a vida nas trilhas de gado não é nem um pouco o que ele esperava e muito menos o que ele está em busca.
Entardecer Sangrento
Assistant Director
Bart Allison chega a cidade de Sundown com um objetivo: Matar o homem que julga ser responsável pela morte da sua mulher.
Galante e Sanguinário
Assistant Director
Quando o charmoso bandido Ben Wade é capturado após o assalto de uma diligência, o proprietário da linha Sr. Butterfield oferece 200 Dólares para o homem que escoltar o bandido até a cidade de Contention para apanhar o trem das 15:10 para Yuma e lá ser julgado. O rancheiro Dan Evans que está quebrado e precisa de dinheiro para salvar seu gado e sustentar sua família aceita o trabalho. Durante sua jornada, Dan salva a vida de Ben quando um vigilante tenta executar o criminoso. Enquanto isso, a gangue de Ben se separa e sai em busca de onde Ben está e, em seguida, resgatar seu chefe. Quando eles descobrem que Ben está preso em um quarto de hotel, eles colocaram o lugar sob cerco e Dan não consegue encontrar nenhum homem para ajudá-lo.
Resgate de Bandoleiro
Assistant Director
Após perder seu cavalo em uma aposta, o solitário cowboy Pat Brennan pega carona em uma carruagem na qual viajam os recém-casados Willard e Doretta Mims. Mas eles acabam caindo nas mãos de bandidos que, ao descobrirem que Doretta é filha de um homem rico, decidem sequestrá-los e cobrar resgate. A tensão crescerá nas 24 horas seguintes, principalmente quando os sequestradores deixam transparecer que não irão libertar as vítimas mesmo com o pagamento do resgate.
The Man Who Turned to Stone
Assistant Director
A new social worker at a girls' reformatory discovers that her charges are being used by a group of ancient alchemists, who have insinuated themselves as the prison's chief staffers, to keep themselves alive and free from an insidious petrification, which is already afflicting one of their number.
Música Alucinante
Assistant Director
Rock-and-roller Arnie Haynes returns to his hometown as a hero to the teenagers. However, the mayor and other concerned adults have banned him from performing in his hometown because they consider him and his music a negative influence on the youth. But with the help of disc jockey/publicist Alan Freed and fellow artists (including Bill Haley and the Comets and Little Richard), they hope to convince everyone that rock and roll is not as dangerous as the adults think.
Reprisal!
Assistant Director
New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. There is soon trouble between Frank and the Shipleys who are using Frank's land to graze their cattle. When the brother of one of the Indian victims kills a Shipley, Frank is accused and put in jail. The Shipleys then organize a lynch mob and head for the jail.
The White Squaw
Assistant Director
A Swedish settler (David Brian) starts a war when he tries to drive Dakotas off their Wyoming reservation.
Um Pecado em Cada Alma
Assistant Director
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.
Uma Viúva em Trinidad
Assistant Director
Cantora de boate e seu cunhado tentam encontrar o assassino de seu marido. Quando Steve Emery chega a Trinidad a pedido urgente de seu irmão, ele fica surpreso ao descobrir que seu irmão não só foi assassinado, mas que a esposa de seu irmão, Chris, está sucumbindo às tentativas de sedução do homem que possivelmente é o assassino. Seus sentimentos ficam ainda mais exacerbados quando ele descobre que também está se sentindo fortemente atraído por Chris, que é uma apaixonada cantora de cabaré. Ela, por sua vez, joga um contra o outro enquanto trai os segredos dos dois homens para a polícia, para quem trabalha secretamente. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos) O filme marca o retorno de Rita Hayworth ao cinema depois de quatro anos longe da Columbia.
Santa Fé
Assistant Director
Depois da Guerra Civil, quatro irmãos mudam-se para o oeste em busca de aventura e trabalho. Após tomarem caminhos diferentes, entre boas e más escolhas, seus destinos se cruzam no final.
No Sad Songs for Me
Assistant Director
Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow towards Chris.
Tell It to the Judge
Assistant Director
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.
A Grande Ilusão
Assistant Director
O filme conta a história de ascensão e queda de um político rebelde do interior que começa exigindo reformas e justiça social, mas acaba embriagado pelo próprio poder. O roteiro é uma adaptação do romance de Robert Penn Warren, publicado em 1946, e pelo qual o autor recebeu o Prémio Pulitzer de Literatura.
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Assistant Director
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
The Walking Hills
Assistant Director
A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.
A Dama de Shanghai
Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)
Elsa 'Rosalie' Bannister é uma mulher que é salva de um grupo de ladrões pelo jovem Michael O'Hara. Como agradecimento, ela o convida para trabalhar no iate de seu milionário marido. Michael aceita o emprego, mas não pelo dinheiro, e sim para ficar mais próximo de Elsa e, assim, tentar fugir com ela - pois agora ele está completamente apaixonado pela moça.
A Dama de Shanghai
Assistant Director
Elsa 'Rosalie' Bannister é uma mulher que é salva de um grupo de ladrões pelo jovem Michael O'Hara. Como agradecimento, ela o convida para trabalhar no iate de seu milionário marido. Michael aceita o emprego, mas não pelo dinheiro, e sim para ficar mais próximo de Elsa e, assim, tentar fugir com ela - pois agora ele está completamente apaixonado pela moça.
Tem Que Ser Você
Assistant Director
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
Um Passeio ao Sol / Caminhada Sob o Sol
Assistant Director
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.
O Vingador Invisível
Assistant Director
Dez estranhos são convocados para uma ilha remota e, enquanto esperam o misterioso anfitrião aparecer, uma gravação registra acusações sérias sobre cada um dos convidados. Logo eles começam a ser assassinados, um por um. Enquanto os sobreviventes tentam manter o juízo, eles chegam a uma conclusão perturbadora: um deles deve ser o assassino.
Guest in the House
Assistant Director
Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.
Jack London
Assistant Director
The adventurous and remarkable life of the US writer Jack London (1876-1916).
The Avenging Rider
Director
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.
Sagebrush Law
Director
Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun is in the wrong hand. When the Bank Examiner announces the bank has no money and Tom's identity becomes known, the townsmen attempt to hang him. Escaping he finds the phony examiner and gets a a confession. Then he plans a trap for the murderer. -IMDB
O Proscrito
Assistant Director
O agora xerife Pat Garrett dá as boas-vindas ao seu amigo Doc Holliday em Lincoln, Novo México. Doc chega à cidade à procura de um pistoleiro que teria roubado seu cavalo em Socorro. Para sua surpresa, o pistoleiro é o jovem e famoso Billy the Kid.Ao encontrá-lo, tenta pegar seu cavalo, mas Billy reage. Pat chega ao local e, ao saber que o estranho é Billy the Kid, tenta prendê-lo. Doc intervém em favor de Billy e os dois recebem ordem para deixarem a cidade.À noite, ao tentar dormir num celeiro, Billy é atacado pela bela Rio MacDonald, numa tentativa de vingar a morte de seu irmão, ocorrida em Socorro, mas é por ele dominada. O xerife tenta novamente dar ordem de prisão a Billy e termina alvejando-o de raspão.
Bandit Ranger
Second Unit
Rancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to Trail City, where he had been sent to deal with an outbreak of cattle rustling. Businessman Art Kenyon, who has hired gunman Ed Martin to impersonate Mattison to further his rustling schemes, quickly changes Martin's story and has Travers framed for the ranger's murder. Managing to escape, Travers must come up with proof to clear his name and bring the true killers to justice.
The Corsican Brothers
Assistant Director
Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.
Outlaws of the Panhandle
Director
Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of frontier medico Steven Monroe or masked do-gooder The Durango Kid. For the moment, however, the star is cast as Jim Endicott, bound and determined to put an end to the underhanded activities of gin-mill operator Faro Jack Vaughn (Norman Willis). The villain's strategy is to get the local cowpunchers tanked up on rotgut that they'll prove to be easy pickings for a gang of rustlers-and will be unable to complete work on a railroad spur which will bypass the outlaws' hideaway.
Prairie Schooners
Director
Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott) leads a wagon train of settlers from Kansas to Colorado. Along the way, they cross a group of Indians who don't want any more settlers on their land.
Bullets for Rustlers
Director
Steve Beaumont, an operative for the Cattleman's Protective Association, is assigned the difficult task of breaking up a murderous gang of rustlers led by Ed Brock and Strang. He takes Sheriff Webb, Judge Baxter, and rancher Ann Houston into his confidence, and works his way into the rustler stronghold and confidence by "turning rustler" himself.
Pioneers of the Frontier
Director
The second of Columbia Pictures' four "Wild Bill Saunders" westerns, Pioneers of the Frontier features William Elliott as the title character who discovers that his uncle Mort (Lafe McKee) has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman, Matt Brawley (Dick Curtis). But before he can right Brawley's wrongs, Wild Bill is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Sidekick Cannonball Sims (Dub Taylor) and disgruntled girl rancher Joan Darcy (Dorothy Comingore) plot to break Wild Bill out of jail but Brawley is wise to their plan.
Mandrake the Magician
Director
Feature version of the American serial film, produced for export only, never exhibited in the USA, and believed to be a lost film.
The Stranger from Texas
Director
Things get under way when US marshal Tom (Starrett) finds himself in the midst of a range war. The villains are a band of rustlers who play both sides of the confrontation against one another, the better to move in and claim all the livestock.
Parents on Trial
Director
According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is elucidated in Columbia's Parents on Trial, wherein strict disciplinarian James Westley (Henry Kolker) fails to understand or appreciate the real needs and feelings of his teenaged daughter Susan (Jean Parker).
Konga, the Wild Stallion
Director
A long-standing feud between a rancher and a neighboring wheat farmer only intensifies after the rancher's wild stallion causes damage to the farmer's property. Western drama.
Overland with Kit Carson
Director
When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the government sends Kit Carson and David Brent to straighten things out.
The Man from Sundown
Director
The hero, Texas Ranger Larry Whalen (Charles Starrett), is on the trail of a mysterious outlaw leader.
Western Caravans
Director
A caravan of settlers is arriving and the ranchers intend to keep them out. It looks like a range war but Sheriff Jim gets the ranchers to accept the settlers. Kohler re-ignites the feud by making settler Winters appear to be a rustler and then by killing Winter's son. Once more the two sides appear headed for a war and Jim is caught in the middle.
Mandrake, O Mágico
Director
Mandrake e seu assistente Lothar estão trabalhando nas linhas de cruzeiro e conhecem o professor Houston, que desenvolveu uma máquina de energia de rádio, muito cobiçada por um lorde do crime mascarado conhecido como "A Vespa".
North of the Yukon
Director
In this North western, a brave Canadian Mountie pursuing a gang of fur thieves finds himself drummed out of the RCMP and forced to run a gauntlet of Mountie whips. When the gang learns of this, they convince him to join them.
Texas Stampede
Director
Sheep raisers, resentful of old injuries from the cattlemen, bar the way to water when dry ranges force the cattle ranchers to drive their herds into the lowlands.
Rio Grande
Director
No relation to the 1950 John Ford classic of the same name, Rio Grande is yet another rubber-stamp Charles Starrett western from the Columbia assembly line.
West of the Santa Fe
Director
US marshal Lawlor (Starrett) takes on a gang of cattle rustlers headed by Taylor (Dick Curtis). His reasons are partly personal: Conway (Edward LeSaint), the cattle-baron father of Lawlor's sweetheart Madge (Meredith), has been murdered by Taylor's minions.
Colorado Trail
Director
In this western a traveling gun ends up in a small town and rescues an important rancher. Out of gratitude the rancher hires him to protect his land and cattle from his violent rival. It is revealed that the gunman is the son of the ruthless rival; he therefore, loses his job and finds himself entangled in the midst of a range war. He must eventually face his father when the bad guy takes over the only trail to the market.
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Director
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure the success of the mission.
Outlaws of the Prairie
Director
Charles Starrett plays two-fisted frontiersman Dart Collins in this slick Columbia "B" western. Collins wants to find out who's behind a series of gold-shipment robberies. So does heroine Judy Garfield (Iris Meredith), whose stage transport business faces foreclosure if the holdups continue. It comes as no surprise that the crimes are being orchestrated by the very people who want to force Judy out of business.
Pennies from Heaven
Assistant Director
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.
Ann Carver's Profession
Assistant Director
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
No More Orchids
Assistant Director
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Assistant Director
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
The Menace
Producer
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
Way Back Home
Assistant Director
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
A Mulher Miraculosa
Assistant Director
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
Rain or Shine
Assistant Director
Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.
Soldiers and Women
Pvt. Delehanty
Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is having affairs with two women, Brenda Ritchie and Helen Arnold, each of whom is married to a Marine Captain. One of the husbands is murdered, and Branch, Helen and Brenda each find themselves high on the list of suspects.
Amor de Satã
Assistant Director
The owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of town. She gets revenge by marrying his younger brother.
The Little Savage
Norton
Once again, diminutive hero Red tries to help the adult characters in their fight against the villains.
The Vagabond Cub
Bob McDonald
Red saves his prospector sidekick Hank Robbins from the hangman.
The Circus Kid
Tad
In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Circus.
Breed of Courage
Alan Haliday
During a feud between remote families, a dog saves the day.
The Midnight Flyer
Assistant Director
The speed of lightning; the roar of thunder; the thrills of an earthquake; it's "The midnight flyer".