Edward Ludwig

Рождение : 1898-10-07, Balta, Ukraine, Podolia

Смерть : 1982-08-20

История

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Irving Ludwig (7 October 1899 – 20 August 1982) was a Russian-born American film director and writer. He directed nearly 100 films between 1921 and 1963. Ludwig was also one of the directors of John Payne's NBC western television series The Restless Gun (1957-1959). He was born in Russia, entered the US from Canada, March 6, 1911, became a naturalized citizen December 23, 1932, and died in Santa Monica, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward Ludwig, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Фильмы

The Gun Hawk
Director
Gunslinger Rory Calhoun dispenses his own brand of justice in this action-packed Western adventure costarring Rod Cameron and Ruta Lee. It's been three years since gunfighter Blaine Madden (Calhoun) visited his hometown. So when he warns the Sully brothers to stop harassing the town drunk, they shoot the old man dead, not realizing he's Madden's father. Killing them both, Madden is badly wounded by the sheriff (Cameron) but escapes to an outlaw haven where the law fears to tread and prepares what may be his last stand. Written by Jo Heims (Play Misty for Me), The Gun Hawk was the final film directed by Edward Ludwig, whose nearly 50-year career spanned over 100 shorts, TV episodes and features, including the John Wayne hits The Fighting Seabees, Wake of the Red Witch and Big Jim McLain.
The Black Scorpion
Director
Giant scorpions wreck havoc after being released due to volcanic activity.
Flame of the Islands
Associate Producer
A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.
Flame of the Islands
Director
A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.
Хиваро
Director
В поселке сборщиков каучука, в верховьях Амазонки проживает группа людей, не удовлетворившихся своим положением у себя дома, и мечтающих разбогатеть здесь и вернуться назад важными людьми, с которыми станут считаться. Среди них владелец старого катера и небольшой торговой точки Рио Голдесс. К другому, бывшему американскому инженеру, одержимому поиском сокровищ индейского племени Хиваро, Джерри Расселу, прибывает гламурная американская невеста Алиса Паркер, с намерением выйти замуж за богатого плантатора. Однако тот спивается и живет с местной девушкой Моруа, а плантация существует лишь на страницах его писем. Алисе, чтобы добраться до своего жениха, приходится воспользоваться катером Рио. Между ними завязываются отношения, но приходит известие, что Джерри пропал в землях Хиваро, известных как "охотники за головами". Алиса и Рио, с группой авантюристов, решают отправиться на его поиски в предгорья Анд, в место, называемое "Долиной ветров".
The Vanquished
Director
A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few scrupulous people.
Sangaree
Director
Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
The Blazing Forest
Director
Estranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired by a feisty widow to clear the timber from her Nevada property.
Caribbean
Writer
Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to help him invade MacAllister's fortified island. The latter falls in love with MacAllister's daughter,Christine.
Caribbean
Director
Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to help him invade MacAllister's fortified island. The latter falls in love with MacAllister's daughter,Christine.
Большой Джим МакЛэйн
Director
Специальный агент Джим МакЛэйн и его коллега Мел Бакстер по заданию американского правительства отправляются на Гавайские острова, чтобы пресечь деятельность тамошней нелегальной коммунистической организации.
Smuggler's Island
Director
An adventurer about to lose his sloop and diving equipment agrees to dive for illegal gold.
The Big Wheel
Director
The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.
Найти «Красную ведьму»
Director
В южной части Тихого океана, от Маркиских островов до Целибиса, от Суматры до Гаваев веками царила идеалистическая атмосфера, до тех пор пока не появился белый человек. Все земли были захвачены и разграблены, появились целые торговые империи. Они были повсюду - голодные и жадные до денег, одна из них называлась «Байтек Лимитед» которой управлял некий мистер Сидней. В 1860 году на флагманском корабле этой компании «Красная ведьма», под командованием капитана Раллса, человека жесткого и хладнокровного, оказывается Сем Роузен, который, вначале очень раздражает капитана своими манерами, а затем становится его лучшим помощником и другом. Прежде чем это случится, капитан Раллс делает всё, чтобы судно получило пробоину на рифах и затонуло. Как выяснится позднее, на борту находился груз золота стоимостью пять миллионов долларов, и это обстоятельство повлияло на решение капитана, и заставило засомневаться в случайности крушения...
The Fabulous Texan
Director
A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
3 Is a Family
Director
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace. The couple's daughter, Marjorie Reynolds, shows up with her twin babies in tow. Son Arthur Lake arrives with his pregnant wife (Jeff Donnell). And overbearing maiden aunt Helen Broderick also decides to move in. Because his wife is away at work, poor old Charlie Ruggles is not only housekeeper, but nursemaid and servant as well.
На линии огня
Director
Эгоцентричный и трудолюбивый Уэдж Донован — владелец строительной компании, которая ведет реконструкции и строительство взлетных полос на островах Тихого океана во время Второй Мировой Войны. Однажды он узнает от лейтенанта Роберта Ярроу, что его безоружные рабочие убиты японцами. Решительно настроенные парни приезжают в Вашингтон с требованием получить оружие для обороны строек и организовать строительный батальон, который сможет не только строить, но и воевать. Правительственный чиновник отказывает быстро выдать оружие, мотивируя тем, что рабочие должны пройти годовой курс обучения. Раздосадованный Донован возвращается на остров, где продолжает свою опасную работу. Неожиданно на остров высаживается морской десант японцев. Агрессоры начинают теснить американские войска, обороняющие рубежи острова, и тогда Донован и его рабочие заводят моторы своих мощных тракторов, бульдозеров и экскаваторов, чтобы противостоять атаке «Самураев»…
Bomber's Moon
Director
An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he meets a Russian medic and a Czech. Together the trio escapes.
They Came to Blow Up America
Director
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.
Born to Sing
Director
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
The Man Who Lost Himself
Director
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.
Swiss Family Robinson
Director
A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves in the jungle environment.
Coast Guard
Director
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
Тот самый возраст
Director
Журналист Винсент Буллитт возвращается с гражданской войны в Испании после ранения. Его босс - газетный магнат Фаллитрон предлагает ему отдохнуть и подлечиться у себя на загородной вилле, а за одно написать несколько статей о войне в Европе. Юная дочь босса Элис с друзьями в это время готовит театральную постановку в домике для гостей, который некстати занимает приехавший отдохнуть журналист. Молодежь возмущена неожиданным вторжением, ведь все репетиции отменяются. Ребята решают выжить гостя из дома и придумывают массу интриг и способов для осуществления своих планов. От ненависти до любви один шаг. И юная леди влюбляется в Винсента, который намного её старше. Вся семья босса и сам журналист в шоке... Как отрезвить девушку от нахлынувшего на неё чувства первой любви? Время лечит, все забудется и вернется на свои места, но в сердце юной Элис эта любовь останется на всю жизнь...
Последний гангстер
Director
История начинается в 1927 году, во времена разгула преступности и процветания бутлегерства, во времена сухого закона в Америке. Джо Корзак, один из главарей преступной банды, решил обзавестись семьей для придания своей персоне статуса добропорядочного гражданина. Он выбирает иностранку, которая ничего не знает о его шумной славе, поскольку она по-английски может сказать только несколько слов.
Her Husband Lies
Director
J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.
Adventure in Manhattan
Director
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.
Fatal Lady
Director
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
3 Kids and a Queen
Director
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Old Man Rhythm
Director
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
Age of Indiscretion
Director
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Director
A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen.
Friends Of Mr. Sweeney
Director
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
A Woman's Man
Director
A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.
They Just Had to Get Married
Director
Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they encounter many problems and difficulties as they try to become the newest members of the idle rich.
Steady Company
Writer
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
Steady Company
Director
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
Julius Sizzer
Director
After the success of "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy" and "Scarface," here is the inevitable parody, in which Liddle Sizzer engages in a vicious Chicago gang war. He's aided by his innocent twin brother, Julius, a greenhorn from the Old Country. Both are played by Benny Rubin.
The Messenger Boy
Director
Benny Rubin is a Messenger Boy who gets into trouble with everyone.
The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa
Writer
Cohen and Kelly families go to Africa to buy elephant tusks.
See America Thirst
Screenplay
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
The Girl from Woolworth's
Scenario Writer
Daisy, a clerk at Woolworth's, loves to sing. She meets Bill, a guard on the subway, at a party and they're both attracted to each other, but each tells the other that they have a different job than they actually do. Bill later finds her handbag on the subway, returns it to her and invites her to dinner. They dine at the swanky Mayfield Club, where owner Lawrence Mayfield is also attracted to Daisy and offers her a job there as a singer. Bill is not happy, although Daisy is.
Whose Baby?
Writer
A young man trying to win the attentions of a pretty lady gets lumbered with another woman's baby, beginning a cascade of misunderstandings, close shaves with trams and a humorous policeman…
Whose Baby?
Director
A young man trying to win the attentions of a pretty lady gets lumbered with another woman's baby, beginning a cascade of misunderstandings, close shaves with trams and a humorous policeman…
Hollywood or Bust
Writer
Hollywood or Bust is a silent comedy short.
Hollywood or Bust
Director
Hollywood or Bust is a silent comedy short.
Spuds
Writer
In France during World War I, an army payroll car containing $250,000 turns up missing. A GI, nicknamed "Spuds" because of his prowess at peeling potatoes, discovers that it was stolen by German spies, and--since his captain was responsible for the car and will be in big trouble if it's not recovered--goes behind the enemy lines to retrieve both the car and the $250,000 payroll.
Spuds
Director
In France during World War I, an army payroll car containing $250,000 turns up missing. A GI, nicknamed "Spuds" because of his prowess at peeling potatoes, discovers that it was stolen by German spies, and--since his captain was responsible for the car and will be in big trouble if it's not recovered--goes behind the enemy lines to retrieve both the car and the $250,000 payroll.
Sign Them Papers
Director
Beautiful Belinda is kidnapped by terrible people who want her to sign over a gold mine.
Monkeys Prefer Blondes
Writer
A Sunkist Comedy
Monkeys Prefer Blondes
Director
A Sunkist Comedy
Working Winnie
Director
Heaven help the woiking goil, a funny comedy of true love!
The Speedy Marriage
Director
A SPEEDY MARRIAGE (Universal-Century - Two Reels) This is a typical Wanda Wiley vehicle with a world of action, none of which, however, has not been seen many times before. They have taken the action out of about three oft-repeated comedy tales and crowded it into these two reels. Miss Wiley is certainly a lively young lady and a glutton for punishment. She takes many a hard fall and an equal number of rough knocks. She is also capable of better material than she is given to exploit in this one.
Won by Law
Writer
Wanda Wiley stars as a very slow and lazy daughter in this excellent Century short. She gets servants to feed her and even plays tennis sitting in a chair. One day she decides to wake up to win the man she loves by going on an outdoor adventure that involves skunks and moonshiners!
Won by Law
Director
Wanda Wiley stars as a very slow and lazy daughter in this excellent Century short. She gets servants to feed her and even plays tennis sitting in a chair. One day she decides to wake up to win the man she loves by going on an outdoor adventure that involves skunks and moonshiners!
My Baby Doll
Director
Premise unknown.
Speed Boys
Scenario Writer
While Spec's father is ill, he takes over as conductor on the miniature railroad.
Speed Boys
Director
While Spec's father is ill, he takes over as conductor on the miniature railroad.
Rip Van Winkle
Co-Writer
The story shows the development of the united state in divergent fields : Political, social and even economic field.
Rip Van Winkle
Director
The story shows the development of the united state in divergent fields : Political, social and even economic field.