Frank Gruber

Рождение : 1904-02-02, Elmer, Minnesota, USA

Смерть : 1969-12-09

Фильмы

White Comanche
Writer
William Shatner plays two roles: cowboy Johnny Moon and his ruthless Indian twin brother, Notah. Notah likes peyote and gets the crazy idea that he's the Comanche messiah sent to lead the Comanche nation against the white man but more specifically the dusty desert town of Rio Hondo. Moon, estranged from his brother, decides to stop Notah either by words or by bullets.
Всадники из Аризоны
Story
Герой гражданской войны в США Клинт отправился на Запад, чтобы присоединиться к группировке диссидентов под названием «Налетчики Квантрила». Попав вместе с другом в тюрьму, они ищут способ оттуда выбраться.
Town Tamer
Hotel Clerk
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.
Town Tamer
Screenplay
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.
Town Tamer
Novel
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.
Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon
Characters
Feature-length Western based on the hit TV show 'Tales of Wells Fargo,' about a Wells Fargo Company troubleshooter who becomes the target of an outlaw he helped send to prison.
Twenty Plus Two
Screenplay
A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress?
Twenty Plus Two
Producer
A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress?
The Big Land
Novel
Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.
Man in the Vault
Novel
A locksmith is pressured into crime when the mob makes him perform an elaborate bank robbery.
Tension at Table Rock
Novel
When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.
Ответный удар
Novel
Отец Джима Слейтера, которого Джим никогда не знал, погибает в стычке с апачами в долине Хила. Джим ищет единственного выжившего человека, который якобы отправился за помощью, но бесследно исчез. Вместе с ним исчезло и золото, найденное отцом Джима и его товарищами в долине Хила...
Pony Express
Story
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in ten days. Along the way they must battle bad weather, hostile Indians and outlaws intent on robbing the mail and shutting down the entire operation.
Hurricane Smith
Screenplay
South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.
Denver and Rio Grande
Writer
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotages the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.
Flaming Feather
Additional Dialogue
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.
Silver City
Writer
Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to acquire a rich silver mine lease from its operators.
Warpath
Writer
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but not before learning that the other two men have joined the U.S. Cavalry.
The Texas Rangers
Story
It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
The Great Missouri Raid
Screenplay
During the American Civil War (1861-1865), farmers Jesse and Frank James decided to form an armed gang to face the Union troops using guerrilla warfare.
The Great Missouri Raid
Novel
During the American Civil War (1861-1865), farmers Jesse and Frank James decided to form an armed gang to face the Union troops using guerrilla warfare.
The Cariboo Trail
Screenplay
A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country.
Dakota Lil
Story
Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits.
Fighting Man of the Plains
Novel
Former bandit Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the criminal element - with the help of his old pal, Jesse James.
Fighting Man of the Plains
Screenplay
Former bandit Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the criminal element - with the help of his old pal, Jesse James.
The Challenge
Writer
Bulldog Drummond investigates the murder of a sea captain who died before revealing the location of his hidden gold.
Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Screenplay
"Bulldog" Drummond is vacationing in his country home in England, and his house if rifled by two thieves. After they leave he finds a card marked with some mysterious letters. Doris Meredith comes by the next day, pretending her car has broken down. Drummond knows better but plays along with her. Drummond calls Scotland Yard Inspector Holmes, and is informed that some of the letters comprise the code-name for a Yard-man who disappeared while carrying some diamonds from France to England. Doris tells Drummond the man is her brother. Drummond uses a decoy to lure the thieves out of hiding, but they adduct Doris.
Accomplice
Screenplay
A private detective and his assistant are hired to find a missing husband. The seemingly easy case is complicated by a dead body.
Accomplice
Novel
A private detective and his assistant are hired to find a missing husband. The seemingly easy case is complicated by a dead body.
In Old Sacramento
Adaptation
Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and always with a smile. But when the woman he loves begins to suspect him and the young man he befriends is arrested for being him, it's time for Johnny to rethink his priorities.
Шерлок Холмс: Прелюдия к убийству
Adaptation
Сидящий в Дартмурской тюрьме вор скрывает местоположение украденных и спрятанных в музыкальных шкатулках печатных пластин Государственного банка Англии. Когда начинаются убийства невинных покупателей шкатулок, Холмс и Ватсон приступают к расследованию.
The French Key
Screenplay
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
The French Key
Novel
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
Шерлок Холмс: Ночной террор
Screenplay
Холмс нанят Роландом Карстэрсом, чтобы предотвратить воровство «Звезды Родезии», огромного алмаза, принадлежащего матери Карстэрса, Леди Маргарет. Догадываясь, что алмаз будет украден в поезде по пути от Лондона до Эдинбурга, Холмс ловко подменяет алмаз Леди Маргарет, в то время как заходил в ее купе. Вскоре после этого, Роланд был убит, а поддельный алмаз украден...
Johnny Angel
Adaptation
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
Oregon Trail
Novel
Hoping to find a fortune in stolen gold bullion, railroad detective Sunset Carson (Sunset Carson) goes undercover as an outlaw to infiltrate the gang responsible, but winds up being hired as the sheriff of Gunsight by town founder George Layton (Frank Jaquet).
The Mask of Dimitrios
Screenplay
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Northern Pursuit
Screenplay
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
Death of a Champion
Story
Oliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells encyclopedias...and does it well as he possesses a photographic memory that amazes the rubes. The Champion, in the title, is a Great Dane who has won the title at the Rubeville State Fair, and it isn't long before the Champion turns up dead, which is because somebody---motive unknown at the moment---has killed the Champion. This is repeated at other shows along the way and Quade's bright young assistant, "Small Fry", fancies himself as an amateur detective, and starts nosing around into the mystery and drags Quade along with him.