Lester Cole
Рождение : 1904-06-19, New York City, New York, USA
Смерть : 1985-08-15
Screenplay
Фильм был снят в Африканской саванне по одноименному бестселлеру известной писательницы и натуралиста Джой Адамсон. Картина рассказывает о судьбе львицы Эльсы, еще детенышем попавшей к супругам Адамсон. Они не только спасают малышку от неминуемой гибели, но и, вырастив ее, возвращают назад в дикую природу потому, что она была рождена свободной. Авторам удалось превосходно запечатлеть и передать с помощью средств кино красоту природы и животного мира Кении.
Writer
Русский провинциальный городок середины девятнадцатого века. Марья Александровна Москалева пытается выдать свою дочку за престарелого князя и на этом пути ее ничто не останавливает: ни влюбленный в Зину племянник князя, ни сплетни, ни глупость собственного мужа…
Writer
Drama about the life Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer responsible for the deaths of countless Jewish people during World War II.
Theatre Play
Story
После войны пилот Мэтт Бреннан ищет работу и находит её в Европе. Теперь он лётчик-испытатель и работает на Лиланда Уиллиса. Здесь же он встречает Джо, девушку из Красного Креста, с которой у него были романтические отношения во время войны. Карл Трокселль хочет продать Вооруженным силам новую разработку — кресло-катапульту и Мэтта нанимают для демонстрации прототипа сверхзвукового самолёта JA-3, не оборудованного спасательным креслом. Мэтт считает эту затею небезопасной…
Self
A brief look at The Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors charged with contempt of court after challenging the House Un-American Activities Committee and their controversial and self-incriminatory questions during the red scare. With that act of defiance, they were sentenced to one year in prison simply for speaking their minds and exercising their constitutional rights as concerned citizens. This is their story, their version of the facts, and their opinions.
Screenplay
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
Screenplay
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.
Screenplay
Знаменитый матадор Антонио Моралес вынужден был оставить карьеру после ранения в схватке с быком. Теперь он обучает молодежь секретам своего мастерства, и мечтает о сыне, который пойдет по стопам отца и станет не менее знаменитым. К огорчению дона Антонио, у его супруги рождается дочь. Впрочем, сеньора Моралес быстро "исправила ситуацию", и через четверть часа на свет появляется второй ребенок - на этот раз долгожданный сын. Прошло двадцать лет. После многолетних занятий под руководством отца, сын Антонио, Марио, готовится к своему первому публичному выступлению. Но в глубине души он мечтает о карьере пианиста и композитора, в чём его поддерживает мать. Зато его сестра Мария совсем не прочь пойти по отцовским стопам, правда, это совсем не входит в планы её жениха, Пепе Ортеги…
Story
Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.
Adaptation
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.
Writer
Ник Кондон, главный редактор газеты «Tokyo Chronicle» печатает статью, раскрывающую план Японии о завоевании мира. Газета доходит до высшей японской военной власти и разгорается скандал, сулящий Нику большие неприятности. Но эта в статье Ник только интуитивно предугадал японские планы, а вот его друг Олли Миллер сумел раздобыть настоящие документы, известные как план премьер-министра Гиичи Танака , и с ними решил бежать на корабле в США. Когда Кондон идет к судну, чтобы проститься, он находит Эдит Миллер мертвой, а её мужа пропавшим...
Screenplay
Вторая мировая война. Государство Бирма, западная часть полуострова Индокитай. Здесь японцы развернули самый сложный театр военных действий, перерезав все пути в Китай и оккупировав территорию. После месяцев засекреченной подготовки в штабе лорда Монбетома в Индии началась операция Китайских частей под руководством англичан с целью освобождения территории от японцев. Для успешного начала главной операции крупных частей сначала была подготовлена небольшая спецгруппа американских командос под командованием капитана Нэльсона. Ей предстояло первой мобильным десантом высадиться в джунглях в тылу врага и уничтожить радарную станцию японцев. Эта ответственная задача будет выполнена с честью, но ради её воплощения многим солдатам суждено пасть смертью храбрых на поле битвы…
Writer
Through flashbacks, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed.
Writer
After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.
Writer
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.
Screenplay
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper (Robert Preston) escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Story
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
Screenplay
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
Writer
Над родом Пинченов довлеет старое проклятие. Однажды, чтобы заполучить земли простого плотника Мэттью Моула, полковник Джеффри Пинчен обвинил его в колдовстве, и Моул был казнен, однако успел проклясть с эшафота своего убийцу. На его землях полковник возвел Дом о семи фронтонах, который с тех самых пор стал родовой собственностью Пинченов. В день окончания строительства полковник Пинчен умер загадочной смертью. Спустя много лет, в 1828 году, в доме живут четверо Пинченов: престарелый отец семейства, юная и хорошенькая кузина Гефсиба, младший сын Клиффорд, прогрессивно мыслящий музыкант, а также старший сын, студент-юрист Джеффри, суеверный юноша, которому никак не дают покоя мифические богатства, спрятанные в доме предками.
Screenplay
Унаследовав от покойного брата формулу невидимости, доктор Фрэнк Гриффин решает применять её исключительно с пользой и первым делом вытаскивает из тюрьмы своего друга Джеффри, ложно обвинённого в убийстве. Оказавшись на свободе, Джеффри начинает поиск настоящего преступника, но одновременно экспериментальный препарат Гриффина начинает проявлять свой негативный побочный эффект.
Writer
A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
Story
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Screenplay
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
Story
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
Screenplay
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
Writer
The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must learn to get along and work together if they are to convince Taylor to let them borrow his boat and return to the main land.
Story
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
Screenplay
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
Screenplay
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
Screenplay
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Story
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Writer
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-loving girlfriend Judy Williams in favor of sexy blonde Rose Whitney.
Additional Writing
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
Screenplay
Cappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos--his daughter is set to marry a nitwit that he can't stand, and his future mother-in-law has taken over everything and is set to merge his business with that of a rival company. Worst of all, though, is that she--in the interests of "progress"--has completely automated his beloved ship, "Electra"!. He sets out to put an end to all this foolishness and comes up with what he thinks is a foolproof plan.
Screenplay
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
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An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
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A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
Screenplay
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.
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A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.
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No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
Screenplay
A career woman marries her boyfriend's rich uncle when the boyfriend marries her sister.
Writer
Когда ни на что не годный человек по имени Дэн получает ножевое ранение и ломает руку, Чарли Чен берётся за дело. Его первая подсказка исходит от сестры жертвы, которая заметила грабителя со светящимися в темноте наручными часами.