Wells Root
Рождение : 1900-03-21, Buffalo, New York, USA
Смерть : 1993-03-09
Writer
Испанский дворянин дон Андреа влюбляется в красавицу Фиби Энн, влипает в неприятности и, спасаясь от преследования властей, знакомится с американским стрелком Сэмом Холлисом. Друзья пробираются вдоль границ Техаса, но дружба заканчивается в момент, когда на горизонте вновь возникает роковая Фиби…
Screenplay
A ship's captain in the South Seas battles a villainous pearl trader who uses island natives as slaves for his business.
Adaptation
Плейбой Боб Меррик попадает в аварию, катаясь на быстроходной лодке на одном из озер Калифорнии. При спасении жизни Боба гибнет местный доктор и желая сгладить свою вину Меррик посещает вдову доктора Хелен и безумно в неё влюбляется. Однако Меррик опять попадает в аварию, в результате которой уже Хелен теряет зрение. Преодолевая стыд Меррик делает всё что в его силах чтобы завоевать сердце Хелен.
Adaptation
An Englishman vacationing in Ruritania is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.
Screenplay
In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian.
Writer
Mother and daughter return to Mexico to escape the US Civil War... and get caught up in the conflict between the French army and the fighters for independence.
Adaptation
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.
Screenplay
An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
Screenplay
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.
Screenplay
A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.
Director
A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.
Theatre Play
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with his boss, Mr Dawson who insults Pearson's wife and refuses to apologise. Pearson then resigns. After finding out that the yarn is actually worth a fair amount, Mr Dawson tries to buy it from Pearson but he has some competition.
Screenplay
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
Screenplay
Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan.
Screenplay
Алан Дрэйк (Роберт Тейлор) – курсант, окончивший летную академию в г.Пенсакола, как лучший выпускник, получает назначение в легендарный летный отряд ВМС США под названием «Адские Коты», который базируется в Сан-Диего. Он сразу производит не самое приятное впечатление на закаленных ветеранов своей юношеской самоуверенностью. Эта неприязнь особенно усиливается, когда Дрейка начинают подозревать в том, что у него роман с Лорной Гэри (Рут Хасси) женой их любимого командира Билла Гэри (Уолтер Пиджен). Алану ничего другого не остается, как подать прошение об отставке...
Screenplay
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Screenplay
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
Screenplay
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Adaptation
Английский джентльмен по имени Рудольф путешествует по Европе. В вымышленной стране Руритания он встречает короля Рудольфа V, который оказывается его дальним родственником, тезкой и двойником. На ужине, по поводу забавного знакомства, будущего короля пытается отравить его кузен Михаэль, желающий сам захватить трон. Король находится при смерти, коронация назначена на завтра. Начальник гвардии полковник Запт убеждает английского Рудольфа занять место родственника на церемонии коронации. Молодой человек изображает короля с успехом. Ему также удается привлечь симпатию невесты короля - Флавии, которая прежде воспринимала Рудольфа V только как человека, с которым она должна вступить в династический брак по расчету.
Story
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.
Screenplay
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.
Director
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.
Writer
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Screenplay
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
Story
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Screenplay
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Screenplay
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
Screenplay
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
Writer
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
Writer
Малоизвестный фильм, рассказывающий простую историю летчиков, доставляющих почту из Южной Америки. Они летят на большой скорости, не взирая на ужасные погодные условия и предательство босса компании. Один из пилотов должен доставить в больницу умирающего ребенка, потому что только с помощью самолета можно успеть спасти его.
Writer
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Story
Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted inwardly. He becomes fond of a homeless waif, Jackie Curtis, and begins to look upon him as the son he never had. But when Jackie's mother appears, Joe has a hard decision to make.
Screenplay
A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
Screenplay
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Johnny and Luana. Though Luana is promised to another man, Johnny whisks her away, and for a brief time the lovers live very happily together. But, when a local volcano threatens their lives, Luana knows that she must sacrifice herself to the volcanic gods in order to save her island.
Adaptation
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
Writer
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
Screenplay
Burr and Dave, two close friends who have backed each other up in countless difficulties, are torn apart by the arrival of a woman, Manette, who becomes stranded with them in their cabin during a raging blizzard.
Adaptation
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.
Screenplay
Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day. When she returns to the hotel with her husband the following night, the house detective accuses her of prostitution and throws them out. Now Claire must explain everything to her unsympathetic husband.
Scenario Writer
Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day. When she returns to the hotel with her husband the following night, the house detective accuses her of prostitution and throws them out. Now Claire must explain everything to her unsympathetic husband.