Donald Curtis

Donald Curtis

Рождение : 1915-02-27, Cheney, Washington, USA

Смерть : 1997-05-22

Профиль

Donald Curtis

Фильмы

Опасный перегон
Jubilee
После того, как Грант Маклэйн, работающий охранником на железной дороге, не смог задержать грабителя, его уволили. Он стал зарабатывать на жизнь игрой на аккордеоне. Неожиданно он получает предложение от Бэна Кимбела, шэфа ЖД, вернуться на старое место работы, так как банда Уайта три раза подряд ограбила поезда, везущие зарплату рабочим. Бэн Кимбэл поручает ему доставку $10000...
7th Cavalry
Lt. Bob Fitch
An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.
Десять заповедей
Mered
Фильм повествует о знаменитом библейском персонаже Моисее, о его рождении, возмужании, культовом исходе евреев из Египта…
Земля против летающих тарелок
Maj. Huglin, Liason Officer
Космические ракеты взрываются при взлете, а количество сообщений о наблюдениях НЛО постоянно увеличивается. Вскоре пришельцы из погибшей внегалактической цивилизации попытаются вторгнуться на Землю на непроницаемых летающих тарелках, используя против людей лучевое оружие массового поражения.
Все, что дозволено небесами
Howard Hoffer
Когда респектабельная вдова из высшего общества влюбляется в садовника, ей приходится столкнуться с непониманием окружающих и сделать непростой выбор.
Flame of the Islands
Johnny
A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.
Это прибыло со дна моря
Dr. John Carver
Атомная субмарина замечает в океане огромный неизвестный движущийся объект. Тем временем с судов, которые занимаются в этом районе ловом рыбы, начинают поступать сообщения о таинственных исчезновениях людей. Ученые начинают расследование и обнаруживают гигантского осьминога, ставшего таким в результате ядерных испытаний в океане...
Phffft
Rick Vidal
Robert and Nina Tracy were once a happy couple, but eight years of marriage has taken a toll on their relationship. They decide to call it quits and get a divorce. In their ensuing freedom, they are excited to dive back into the world of dating. Nina has a date with a suave actor, and Robert meets a blonde bombshell. However, when their dalliances get complicated, they quickly realize that single life might not be what they bargained for.
Stampede
Stanton
Brothers Mike and Tim McCall own a large ranch in Arizona, using the surrounding lands for grazing cattle. Stanley Cox and LeRoy Stanton sell this land to settlers who arrive to find it bone dry, as a dam on the McCall ranch controls the water. Among the settlers are John Dawson and his daughter Connie. The latter goes to the nearest town to take action, but Sheriff Ball tells him there is nothing he can do. Tim falls for Connie but Mike is unimpressed with her charms. While returning from a town dance, Tim discovers Stanton trying to dynamite the dam, and is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Stanton later sends his men to stampede the cattle while he and Cox blow up the dam. Despite the efforts of Mike and Sheriff Ball, the cattle are wiped out and Mike races to the dam and kills Stanton in a gunfight.
The Amazing Mr. X
Paul Faber
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
The Fuller Brush Man
Gregory Cruckston
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
Night Song
George
A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.
I Love Trouble
Martin
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
Dangerous Years
Jeff Carter
Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. They hang out at a juke joint where Eve works. When Jeff tries to stop a robbery planned by Danny, he is killed and Danny goes on trial.
Gallant Bess
Lt. Bridgeman
Marshall Thompson stars in this MGM drama about a young soldier's devotion to a horse he rescues during WWII. (Not to be confused with "Adventures of Gallant Bess", another film released two years later.)
Храбрость Лесси
Charlie
Обладательница наград киноакадемии Элизабет Тейлор блистает в роли девочки, выращивающей колли по имени Лесси в рабочую собаку. Когда Лесси сбивает машина, у нее развивается амнезия, ее отправляют сражаться с японцами во время Второй мировой войны. Она возвращается с войны агрессивной, опасной собакой, и местные жители решают, что ее надо убить. Только любовь вырастившей ее девочки может исправить такое поведение и спасти Лесси жизнь.
White Tie and Tails
Nate Romero
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
Bad Bascomb
John Fulton
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
A Letter for Evie
Capt. Budlowe
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
Они были незаменимыми
Lt. (J.G.) 'Shorty' Long
После атаки Перл-Харбора экипаж торпедных катеров в районе Филиппинских островов должен сразиться с превосходящими их силами японцев…
Заворожённый
Harry
В институт психиатрии приезжает новый директор, известный ученый Эдвардс. Сотрудница института Констанс Питерсен проявляет к нему не только профессиональный интерес, и у них завязывается бурный любовный роман. Но молодой профессор начинает вести себя очень странно, и вскоре Констанс обнаруживает, что ее возлюбленный не тот, за кого себя выдает — он самозванец, страдающий амнезией. Его настоящее имя Джон Баллантайн, и все указывает на то, что он был пациентом пропавшего доктора Эдвардса и, возможно, он и есть убийца. Не веря, что Джон преступник, Констанс увозит его к своему старому учителю доктору Брюлову. Они надеются, изучив сны Джона, раскрыть тайны, скрытые в безднах его сознания
Thrill of a Romance
K.O. Karny
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
Son of Lassie
Sergeant Eddie Brown
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?
Little White Lie
Paul
An orphan is uncertain whether she wants to remain with her adoptive family or return to the orphanage.
This Man's Navy
Operations Officer
During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a German submarine but the bomb misses and the submarine fires back, hitting the airship. Trumpet takes over the controls and sinks the submarine, The pilot faces a court-martial for disobeying orders but the older man takes the blame for his actions. Weaver transfers to the Ferry Command, and while on assignment in Burma, his aircraft crashes in Japanese territory. Trumpet rushes to the scene with a rescue team. Both are successfully brought out and are decorated for their heroism. Afterward, Weaver indicates that he will be returning to the lighter-than-air service in Lakehurst, to reunite with his "father".
Встреть меня в Сент-Луисе
Dr. Girard (uncredited)
Сент-Луис. 1903 год. Алонсо Смит, преуспевающий бизнесмен, живет со своей женой Энн, дочерьми Эстер, Тути, Роуз, Агнесс, сыном Лоном, капризным дедушкой и служанкой. Дочь Роуз кокетничает с одним кавалером дома и переписывается с другим, уехавшим в колледж, а Эстер помолвлена с мальчиком, живущим в соседнем доме. Когда Алонсо получает повышение по службе и ему необходимо переезжать в Нью-Йорк, чего никто из членов семьи никак не желает, начинаются неприятности.
Return from Nowhere
Jack Stuart (uncredited)
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.
Patrolling the Ether
Bill Beck
1940. Sixteen year old Phillip is one of a number of amateur radio operators across the US, doing it purely as a fun hobby. He is informed by Bill Beck of the Radio and Intelligence Division (RID) of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that amateur international radio communication is now banned due to spying a result of the war in Europe. Beck, on behalf of the RID, asks Phillip, however, to continue to monitor the airwaves for suspicious activity.
See Here, Private Hargrove
Sgt. Heldon
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of a couple of buddies intent on cutting themselves in on that extra income.
Ditch and Live
Captain
Lt. Scott Reynolds is co-pilot on a B-17 bomber. When his ship is forced to ditch at sea, only Reynolds survives. The nine other crew members died as a result of insufficient training in ditching procedure. Sent back to the States and promoted, Captain Reynolds takes command of a new B-17 and indoctrinates his crew carefully in the proper methods of preparation for ditching and for survival at sea thereafter.
Swing Fever
Reporter (uncredited)
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Swing Shift Maisie
Joe Peterson
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Salute to the Marines
Randall James
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
Bataan
Lieutenant
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.
Law of the Northwest
Frank Mason (as Don Curtis)
Briefly switching gears in 1942 and 1943, western star Charles Starrett made a handful of "northerns" in which he played a Canadian mountie. In Law of the Northwest, Steve King (Starrett) supervises a road-construction project designed to transport war materials to the Aleutians. Problems arise when a crooked contractor decides that his interests are more important than the war effort.
A Tornado in the Saddle
Steve Duncan
A good entry in one of the better B-Western series of the 1940s, A Tornado in the Saddle starred Russell Hayden as the new sheriff of Crestview. Hot on the trail of a gang of claim jumpers led by Dalton (Tristram Coffin) and Slim (Donald Curtis), the novice lawman also has to deal with hotheaded wrangler turned deputy Bob Wilson (Bob Wills), whom he is constantly forced to fight, but only after prudently removing his sheriff's star.
War Dogs
Fred (as Don Curtis)
A young boy donates his pet, a police dog, to the army to be trained as a war dog.
Невидимый агент
German Sentry (uncredited)
Во время второй мировой войны внук Джека Гриффина, самого первого человека-невидимки, использует формулу своего деда, чтобы тайно проникнуть в фашистский штаб и украсть секретные военные планы Гитлера.
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Phineas Clanton
Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.
In Old California
Pike - Dawson's Henchman
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
Westward Ho
Rick West
The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time, the Mesquiteers are Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke and Lullaby Joslin, here played respectively by Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Rufe Davis. Our heroes converge on a small town to solve a series of mysterious bank robberies.
Hello, Annapolis
Chief Petty Officer
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
Code of the Outlaw
Taggart
After a payroll robbery the Mesquiteers catch up with the gang. But the members escape, the gang leader is killed, and they end up with only the leaders young son who is quickly sent to a work farm. They adopt the boy hoping to learn where the money is. Just as their kindness is about to pay off a gang member takes the boy away forcing him to retrieve the money. - Written by Maurice VanAuken
Inflation
Salesman (uncredited)
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
The Royal Mounted Patrol
Frenchy Duvalle
Western star Charles Starrett makes one of his periodic forays into the Great White North in Columbia's Royal Mounted Patrol. When villainous lumberman Frenchy Duvalle (Donald Curtis) refuses to limit his wood-chopping activities, he inadvertently touches off a forest fire. Trapped in the middle of the conflagration, Frenchy's only hope for rescue is mountie Tom Jeffries (Charles Starrett), presently scouring the countryside in his scout plane. Jeffries' reasons for bringing Frenchy out safely are twofold: he must deliver the renegade lumberjack to the authorities, and he happens to be in love with Frenchy's sister Betty (Wanda McKay).
Thunder Over the Prairie
Henchman Taylor
An evil land baron uses the local Indians as laborers and then finds legal methods to cheat them of their pay. The reservation physician Steve Monroe does his best to thwart the villain by peaceable methods.
The Son of Davy Crockett
Jack Ringe
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
Criminals Within
Lt. John Harmon
A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
Hands Across the Rockies
Dade Crawley
Wild Bill Hickock and Cannonball help two young people in love and bring the murderer of Cannonball's father to justice.
Secret Evidence
Det. Murphy
A legal secretary with a loving family who is happily engaged to a successful young attorney receives a surprise visit from her bad-news former boyfriend, a jewel thief just released on parole who has no intention of going straight. The visit triggers a series of events resulting in a trial for attempted murder.
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Ranger Stafford (uncredited)
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
Сын Монте-Кристо
Guard (Uncredited)
1865 год. Войска Наполеона III готовятся к вторжению на Балканы для поддержки диктатора генерала Гурко Лейнена. Чтобы обеспечить содержание войск на своей территории, а так же для организации пышных свадебных торжеств с местной красавицей Зоной, диктатору нужны деньги. Он надеется получить их у одного банкира. Но финансист, которого по всем канонам не должно волновать ничего, кроме собственного благополучия, оказывается благородным героем с горячем сердцем. Он поднимает народ на борьбу, призывая свергнуть диктатора, и освобождает Зону от брака, который так страшит её.
Take Me Back to Oklahoma
Henchman Snapper
Storm is out to wreck Ace's stage line. When Tex arrives to help Ace, Storm brings in hired killer Mule Bates. But Tex and Bates know each other and the two devise a plan to fool Storm.
Junior G-Men
Henchman Akin
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
Северо-западная конная полиция
Mountie Secretary (uncredited)
О сотрудничестве техасского ковбоя с канадской конной полицией в поисках убийцы, сбежавшего из Канады.
Knute Rockne All American
West Point Football Player (uncredited)
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Tear Gas Squad
Second cadet
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Ronal (uncredited)
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov, this time with ready-made allies waiting: Prince Barin of Arboria and Queen Fria of the frozen northern land of Frigia; where, it so happens, is found polarite, antidote to the plague. But Ming will use all his forces to keep our heroes from thwarting his plans of conquest.
Emergency Squad
Ambulance Interne
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.