Ben Markson
Рождение : 1897-08-06, Creston, Iowa, USA
Смерть : 1971-10-20
Story
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage and a chase by car and helicopter lead to a climax on a miner's bucket on cables a mile above the canyon floor.
Adaptation
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
Screenplay
Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger. Blackie must set out to prove his innocence as well as capture the real killers.
Screenplay
Panic arises among the Allied prisoners on a Japanese ship when they learn that the ship is decoy for American submarines and is not blacked out at night. The prisoners unite and attack the Japanese sailors and officers just an American submarine surfaces and, not knowing the prisoners are aboard, prepares to torpedo the ship
Writer
The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent mindset. Not surprisingly, he ends up taking a post-grad course in amour from the winsome Ms. Granville.
Screenplay
While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl who's nurse has been recently murdered.
Screenplay
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
Screenplay
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
Screenplay
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Screenplay
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company.
Screenplay
A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.
Screenplay
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Writer
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
Treatment
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
Screenplay
A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
Writer
A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.
Screenplay
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.
Screenplay
Фрэнк Паттон является промоутером конкурса "Счастливые Ножки". Проблема заключается в том, что он всегда пропускает город, прежде чем платить за $ 1000 победителю ...
Dialogue
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
Adaptation
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
Screenplay
In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
Additional Dialogue
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
Screenplay
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
Screenplay
Очень нервный человек по имени Картрайт приходит в офис к Перри, чтобы арестовать соседа за вой собаки. Он утверждает, что завывание является признаком того, что есть смерть в этом районе. Он также хочет, чтобы составили завещание отдавая своё имение даме проживающей в доме соседей. Это все очень таинственно и на следующий день, его завещание меняется и Картрайт отсутствует, как и дама из соседнего дома. Перри имеет завещание и предварительный гонорар и должен выяснить, есть ли у него клиент или выгодоприобретатель.
Story
Дерзкий парень вступает в ряды флота по ошибке, но находит там любовь и дважды награждается за героизм.
Writer
Дерзкий парень вступает в ряды флота по ошибке, но находит там любовь и дважды награждается за героизм.
Screenplay
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
Screenplay
Когда Дена Квигли увольняют в первый же день работы швейцаром из кинотеатра, он волей случая присоединяется к небольшой банде, считая себя достаточно умелым для незаконной деятельности. В конечном счете, полиция подозревает его и не смотря на попытки скрыться арестовывает. Его девушка вместе с остальной бандой сбегают оставляя его за решеткой. За нехваткой доказательств он вскоре выходит, и день за днем скатывается на дно, пока в Лос-Анджелесе случайно не попадает в кино-индустрию и вскоре поднимается на вершину славы. Но его вновь обретенный успех вызывает интерес его старых уголовных единомышленников, которые решают воспользоваться этим…
Screenplay
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
Screenplay
As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.
Dialogue
Барни Хопкинс готовит новое шоу на Бродвее, но за день до этого его закрывают, а реквизит и костюмы конфискуют за неоплаченные счета. На дворе «Великая депрессия» и весь коллектив, оказавшись на улице, вынужден голодать. Нет возможности устроиться на работу и трем подружкам Кэрол, Трикси и Поли. Несладко им пришлось и они готовы уже опустить руки, но случайно одна из девушек узнает о том, что Хопкинс готовит новую пьесу…
Dialogue
Отсидев срок, гангстер Дэнни Кин решает порвать с криминальным миром и заняться своим истинным призванием - журналистикой. Применение своей неуемной энергии, пробивной дерзости, смекалке и расплывчатым моральным нормам он находит в профессии "охотника за фотографиями" в одном низкопробном таблоиде (иначе говоря, папарацци, ещё задолго до возникновения самого термина). Там он быстро делает карьеру, добывая в опасных условиях провокационные фото, которых жаждет публика. Проблемы возникают, когда он обманным путем проникает в блок смертников тюрьмы Синг-Синг и делает там снимок женщины-убийцы на электрическом стуле. Ведь полицейский чин, понесший ответственность за это происшествие, является отцом любимой девушки Дэнни, да к тому же имеет с ним давние счеты ещё со времен его преступной деятельности.
Dialogue
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
Screenplay
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
Story
A barker at a down-at-the-heels carnival becomes a powerhouse New York publicity man as he transforms a sideshow dancer into a Broadway sensation.
Screenplay
Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
Screenplay
Официантка престижного ресторана, который часто посещают работники кино, Мэри Эванс мечтает стать актрисой. Однажды вечером, обслуживая подвыпившего знаменитого режиссера Макса Кэрри, она его очаровывает и он приглашает ее на премьеру своего фильма в китайский кинотеатр Граумон. Купив за 50 долларов «драндулет», он с эпатажем подъезжает к кинотеатру и отдает его в качестве «чаевых» парковщику стоянки, а Мэри представляет зрителям графиней.
Прокутив всю ночь, он ничего не помнит на следующее утро. Доставившая его домой Мэри напоминает ему, что он обещал ей пробные съемки. Первое экранное испытание показывает, что девушка имеет гораздо больше амбиций, чем таланта и ей готовы отказать, но Мэри кроме амбиций еще и упорна…
Theatre Play
Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from showgirl pal his gal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
Screenplay
Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from showgirl pal his gal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
Writer
This film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous daughter of a police detective.