Thomas Pratt

Рождение : 1898-11-08, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Смерть : 1973-08-04

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thomas Pratt (November 8, 1898 – August 4, 1973) was an American film editor. Born in Santa Barbara, California, Pratt was active as an editor from 1928 through 1959, apparently exclusively for Warner Brothers.

Фильмы

Шагающий по ветру
Production Design
Покойный вождь племени возвращается к жизни, чтобы спасти свой народ от своего же сына, воспитанного в другом племени и ставшего заклятым врагом для бывших соплеменников.
Miss Robin Crusoe
Editor
This 1954 feminist version of "Robinson Crusoe" stars Amanda Blake as a woman shipwrecked on a jungle island. Also with George Nader and Rosalind Hayes.
I Am an American
Editor
The history of a Polish family and its contributions to the war effort throughout American history.
Женщина в окне
Additional Editing
Пятидесятипятилетний профессор психологии Ричард Ванли, известный криминолог, однажды вечером, когда его жена и дети уехали на каникулы, видит в витрине галереи портрет молодой женщины, которым он уже неоднократно восхищался. Вдруг он видит женщину, которая как две капли воды похожа на портрет. Это модель Алиса Рид, которая позировала художнику. Она приглашает Ванли к себе домой, чтобы показать другие полотна этого художника. Неожиданно появляется возлюбленный дамы. Обуянный ревностью, он устраивает скандал и Ванли случайно убивает его…
The Hard Way
Editor
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Editor
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
Always in My Heart
Editor
A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is in love with another man.
Underground
Editor
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
Shadows on the Stairs
Editor
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
The Case of the Black Parrot
Editor
Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met Sandy and fallen for her during the voyage, suspects something odd about the cabinet. His suspicions are confirmed when people who have touched the cabinet mysteriously die. Jim and Sandy set out to solve the mystery before anyone else can become a victim.
The Man Who Talked Too Much
Editor
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's 1940 crime melodrama stars George Brent, William Lundigan, Richard Barthelmess, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Henry Armetta, George Tobias, John Litel, Alan Baxter, Louis Jean Heydt, Clarence Kolb, Sam McDaniel and Mary Gordon.
A Fugitive from Justice
Editor
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
British Intelligence
Editor
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
Возвращение доктора X
Editor
Журналист Уолтер, придя к знаменитой актрисе взять интервью, обнаружил ее мертвой и вызвал полицию. Прибыв на место происшествия, полиция не находит труп, а на следующий день актриса заявляется в полицию и Уолтер выглядит чрезвычайно глупо. Решив, что он не смог ошибиться Уолтер начинает следить за актрисой и знакомится с ее доктором. Доктору Фрэнсису Флэгу, специалисту и исследователю в области заболевания крови, оказывает помощь неизвестно откуда взявшийся в последние месяцы сотрудник, по имени Маршалл Квисн. При взгляде на него поражала необычайная бледность лица, прямо-таки безжизненная, и широкая проседь волос. И еще он кого-то смутно напоминает. Но кого? Вскоре выясняется, что помощник является доктором Морисом Ксавье, тем самым Ксавье, которого признали виновным в убийстве ребенка в ходе эксперимента, и который был казнен на электрическом стуле. Но как же он «вернулся» к жизни?
Women in the Wind
Editor
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Broadway Musketeers
Editor
Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
Torchy Blane in Panama
Editor
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
Accidents Will Happen
Editor
A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.
She Loved a Fireman
Editor
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
The Cherokee Strip
Editor
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
Penrod and Sam
Editor
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
Sing Me a Love Song
Editor
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
Public Enemy's Wife
Editor
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.
Золотая стрела
Editor
Дейзи Aпплеби наследница миллионов косметической фирмы является объектом многочисленных поклонников и охотников за ее приданным. Стараясь избавиться от назойливых воздыхателей, она предлагает брак по расчету репортеру Джонни Джонсу, с которым она познакомилась на борту своей яхты, когда он пришел брать у нее интервью по заданию редакции своей газеты. Она предлагает ему сделку: он фиктивно женится на ней и, тем самым, избавляет ее от навязчивых искателей ее руки, а сам может в тишине и комфорте написать свой давно задуманный роман, уйдя из газеты. Не желая выглядеть в ее глазах таким же соискателем, Джонни яростно настаивает на своей финансовой независимости, отказываясь от всех благ, которые ему предоставляются в связи с его новым положением.
Ходячий мертвец
Editor
Несчастный Джон Эллман обвиняется в убийстве судьи. После того, как его осуждают и приговоривают к смертной казни, появляются свидетели и доказывают его невиновность. Но уже слишком поздно, и Эллмана казнят. Врачебный эксперимент возвращает его к жизни, но результат отличается от ожидаемого.
The Widow from Monte Carlo
Editor
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
Alibi Ike
Editor
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
The Florentine Dagger
Editor
A playwright descended from the Borgias family becomes a murder suspect.
Murder in the Clouds
Editor
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
Desirable
Editor
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Merry Wives of Reno
Editor
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
Mandalay
Editor
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
College Coach
Editor
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
Wild Boys of the Road
Editor
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school Sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
Goodbye Again
Editor
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?
Elmer, the Great
Editor
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
42-я улица
Editor
Во время подготовки к новому масштабному мюзиклу неопытной девушке приходится заменить главную звезду представления.
Адвокат
Editor
Адвокат-идеалист Антон Адам попадает в заголовки газет, когда он успешно преследует известного нью-йоркского рэкетира по имени Гилмерри. Внезапная известность Адама привлекает внимание известного юриста Грэнвилла Бентли, который просит Адама стать партнером его юридической фирмы. Но карьера Адама резко ухудшается, когда его подставляют Гилмерри и сексуальная актриса в сфабрикованном иске о нарушении обещания. Единственная постоянная в жизни Адама - это верность и безответная любовь его секретарши Ольги.
Тигровая акула
Editor
A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
Победитель забирает все
Editor
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?
Толпа ревёт
Editor
Профессиональный автогонщик Джо Грира находится на вершине своей карьеры. Когда он возвращается домой навестить семью, он шокирован, узнав, что его младший брат Эдди тоже мечтает стать автогонщиком, и даже принимает участие в местных соревнованиях. Зная, какой это тяжелый и опасный путь, Джо решает взять своего брата под крыло и всему научить сам…
The Hot Heiress
Editor
Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.
Hearts in Exile
Editor
In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes and the two men meet each other in Siberia where they have both been exiled. When the poorer man has the opportunity to come home, he changes places with the baron so that he can return to his wife. Unbeknownst to him, she has gone to the frozen wasteland to search for him.
The Redeeming Sin
Editor
The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound effects. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and stars Dolores Costello. This film is currently a lost film.
Women They Talk About
Editor
Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It is considered to be a lost film.
Glorious Betsy
Editor
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
Sensation Seekers
Editor
Ray Sturgis, leader of the fashionable Long Island jazz set, is engaged to "Egypt" Hagen, an up-to-date girl in every respect. Egypt is arrested at a roadhouse raid, and at her mother's bidding, the Reverend Norman Lodge arranges for her freedom. At a fancy-dress ball, when Ray wears a costume made of newspaper headlines concerning her arrest, Egypt is offended. Seen constantly in the company of Reverend Lodge, her reputation causes church people to take up the matter with the bishop. Leaving the country club, Egypt goes to the Lodge home and hides behind the door when the bishop arrives; Reverend Lodge wants to marry her, and they admit their love; but humiliation causes her to leave with Sturgis that night. Their yacht is wrecked, but Lodge and the bishop follow and rescue Egypt, though Sturgis is drowned. The bishop, realizing the depth of their love, consents to marry them.