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Charles Grayson (writer)
Charles Grayson (1903–1973) was an American screenwriter. He worked on around forty films between 1936 and 1958. He worked under contract for Warner Brothers for a number of years. Although uncredited in the film final, along with Robert Buckner he was instrumental in reviving the operetta film ''The Desert Song'' (1943) by proposing an updated version of an old studio hit.Dick p.23 Selected filmography * ''Crash Donovan'' (1936) * ''Breezing Home'' (1937) * '' The Man Who Cried Wolf'' (1937) * ''We Have Our Moments'' (1937) * ''You're a Sweetheart'' (1937) * '' Reckless Living'' (1938) * '' Swing, Sister, Swing'' (1938) * '' Tomorrow at Midnight'' (1939) * ''Hawaiian Nights'' (1939) * ''One Night in the Tropics'' (1940) * ''The Boys from Syracuse'' (1940) * ''Thieves Fall Out'' (1941) * ''Bad Men of Missouri'' (1941) * ''Law of the Tropics'' (1941) * ''Underground'' (1941) * ''Wild Bill Hickok Rides'' (1942) * ''The Noose Hangs High'' (1948) * ''Outpost in Morocco'' (1949) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawaiian Nights
''Hawaiian Nights'' is a 1939 American romantic comedy film directed by Albert S. Rogell. Produced by Universal Pictures, the film was written by Charles Grayson and Lee Loeb. It stars Johnny Downs, Constance Moore, and Mary Carlisle. A sneak preview of ''Gone with the Wind'' was shown during a double-bill with this film and ''Beau Geste''. Plot Hotel mogul's son Ted Hartley simply wants to start his own band, but his father sends him to Hawaii to help run one of his properties there. Ted takes his musicians along and is offered free room and board by Lonnie Lane, the daughter of a rival hotel chain's owner, to perform at her family's inn. Ted's dad flies over, intending to buy out his rival. He finds out what's going on and intends to put a stop to it, but watching Ted's band perform makes him appreciate that his son actually has found his true calling. Cast * Constance Moore as Lonnie Lane * Johnny Downs as Ted Hartley * Mary Carlisle as Millie * Eddie Quillan as Ray Peters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Hymn (film)
''Battle Hymn'' is a 1957 American war film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson as Lieutenant Colonel Dean E. Hess, a real-life United States Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War who helped evacuate several hundred war orphans to safety. The cast also includes Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore, Philip Ahn, and Martha Hyer. The film was produced by Ross Hunter and filmed in CinemaScope. Hess's autobiography of the same name was published concurrently with the release of the film. He donated his profits from the film and the book to a network of orphanages he helped to establish. The film is one of the most well-known American films about the Korean War. In South Korea, it is noted for its depiction of Col. Hess (known as the “Father of the Korean War Orphans”), and is aired annually during Memorial Day. Plot In the summer of 1950, one month after the invasion of South Korea, Dean Hess has been a small town minister in Ohio for two years. He has been suf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thunder Across The Pacific
''The Wild Blue Yonder'' (also known as ''The Wild Blue Yonder, The Story of the B-29 Superfortress'') is a 1951 war film directed by Allan Dwan. (The film was re-released in 1958.) The film stars Wendell Corey, Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker and Phil Harris. ''Wild Blue Yonder'' deals with the Boeing B-29 Superfortress air raids on Japan during World War II. Plot In 1943, Capt. Harold "Cal" Calvert (Wendell Corey) is sent on a course at Smoky Hill, Kansas, to learn to fly a new bomber, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. His instructor is his cousin, Major Tom West (Forrest Tucker), an officer who the other pilots think has shirked his duties by claiming engine trouble on the raid over the Ploesti oil fields. Cal stands up for Tom when a crewman taunts his cousin in front of Helen (Vera Ralston), a nurse that Tom has been seeing. Cal and the other students learn that the pressurized B-29 can fly higher, faster and farther than any other bomber. On a test flight, when an overconf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman On Pier 13
''The Woman on Pier 13'' is a 1949 American film noir drama directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, and John Agar. It previewed in Los Angeles and San Francisco in 1949 under the title ''I Married a Communist'' but, owing to poor polling among preview audiences, this was dropped prior to its 1950 release. Plot Brad Collins, a San Francisco shipping executive (real name Frank Johnson) has recently married Nan Lowry Collins after a brief courtship. Brad was once involved with a communist group in New York while working as a stevedore during the Depression. Shortly after returning home following their honeymoon, the couple meet Christine Norman, an old flame of Brad's. Nan immediately dislikes her. Brad becomes the target of a Communist cell led by Vanning, who orders an alleged FBI informer drowned after a brief interrogation. After threatening to reveal Brad's responsibility for a murder as well as his communist past, Vanning orders the executive to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Light (film)
''Red Light'' is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed and produced by Roy Del Ruth, starring George Raft and Virginia Mayo, and based on the story "This Guy Gideon" by Don "Red" Barry, featuring strong religious overtones. It was one of several thrillers Raft made in the late 1940s. Plot Bookkeeper Nick Cherney is sent to jail for embezzling from Johnny Torno's trucking company. One week before getting out, he sees a newsreel showing Johnny welcoming home his brother Jess, a heroic Catholic chaplain just returned from a World War II prisoner-of-war camp. Nick decides to get back at Johnny and hires Rocky (a fellow-inmate being released ahead of Nick) to murder Jess. Jess is staying in a local hotel room, about to depart for his first parish in another city. Johnny arrives not long after his brother has been shot by Rocky. Knowing that he is about to die, Jess indicates that a clue can be found in the room's Gideon Bible. However, the book is not there. Johnny invest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outpost In Morocco
''Outpost in Morocco'' is a 1949 American action adventure film directed by Robert Florey, starring George Raft and Marie Windsor. Paul Gerard (Raft), a Moroccan Spahi officer and his French Foreign Legion garrison, holds off attacks from the native tribes of the Emir of Bel-Rashad (Eduard Franz), the father of Cara (Windsor), the woman he loves. As a rarity amongst American films of the Foreign Legion genre, the Legion cooperated with the producers. A second unit led by Robert Rossen filmed scenes in Morocco. Some of the large-scale action scenes of the film were reused in ''Fort Algiers'' and '' Legion of the Doomed''. Plot summary Spahi Captain Paul Gerard is assigned to lead a patrol to the city of Bel-Rashad en route to a French Foreign Legion fort. Gerard is to escort the Emir's daughter, Cara, who has been studying in France, to Bel-Rashad that is off limits to Frenchmen and investigate whether there may be anti-French activity in the city. On their ten-day journey Gerard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Noose Hangs High
''The Noose Hangs High'' is a 1948 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. The film is a remake of the Universal Pictures film ''For Love or Money'' (1939). Plot Ted Higgins and Tommy Hinchcliffe work for the Speedy Service Window Washing Company. They run into a bookie named Nick Craig, who, after mistaking them for employees of the Speedy Messenger Service, sends them to Mr. Stewart's office to collect $50,000 owed to him. But Stewart has plans of his own: he hires two thugs to rob Ted and Tommy of the money he has just paid. Tommy flees from the robbers and takes refuge in a room with a gaggle of women who are mailing face powder samples. He hides the money in an envelope and addresses it to Craig, but it is accidentally switched with an envelope containing a powder sample. Ted and Tommy return to Craig's office and explain what happened; they assure him that the cash will arrive in the mail the next day. When face powder (instead of cash) arrives in the mail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
''Wild Bill Hickok Rides'' is a 1942 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Constance Bennett, Bruce Cabot and Warren William. Bennett was paid $10,000 for her appearance, a significant drop from what she had recently been earning.Kellow p.49-50 Cabot is one of a number of actors to have played Wild Bill Hickok on screen. Plot After her Chicago gambling hall burns down in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Belle Andrews accepts an offer from an ambitious businessmen Harry Farrel to accompany him to Powder River, Montana to open a new casino. However, once there, she becomes disgusted by his criminal activities and joins forces with Wild Bill Hickok to thwart his plans. Main cast * Constance Bennett as Belle Andrews * Bruce Cabot as Wild Bill Hickok * Warren William as Harry Farrel * Betty Brewer as Jane 'Janey' Nolan * Walter Catlett as Sylvester W. Twigg * Ward Bond as Sheriff Edmunds * Howard Da Silva as Ringo - the Prosecutor * Frank Wilcox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underground (1941 Film)
''Underground'' is a 1941 war, drama, suspense, espionage, propaganda, noir film about the German Nazi Resistance opposing the Nazis in World War II directed by Vincent Sherman. Jeffrey Lynn and Philip Dorn play two brothers initially on opposite sides. Cast * Jeffrey Lynn as Kurt Franken * Philip Dorn as Eric Franken * Kaaren Verne as Sylvia Helmuth * Mona Maris as Fräulein Gessner * Peter Whitney as Alex Schumann * Martin Kosleck as Colonel Heller * Erwin Kalser as Dr. Albert Franken * Ilka Grüning as Frau Franken (credited as Ilka Gruning) * Frank Reicher as Professor Hugo Baumer * Egon Brecher as Herr Director of the Chemical Institute * Ludwig Stössel as Herr Gustav Müller (credited as Ludwig Stossel) * Hans Schumm as Heller's Aide * Wolfgang Zilzer as Walter Hoffman * Roland Varno as Ernst Demmler * Henry Brandon as Josef Rolf * Ludwig Hardt Ludwig Hardt (16 January 1886 – 6 March 1947) was a German actor. Private life In 1913 he became the second husband of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law Of The Tropics
''Law of the Tropics'' is a 1941 American drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Constance Bennett, Jeffrey Lynn and Regis Toomey. By the time Bennett made the film, her career was in steep decline.Kellow, Brian. ''The Bennetts: An Acting Family''. University Press of Kentucky, 2004. p.249 The film is loosely based on the 1935 movie '' Oil for the Lamps of China'', but the setting is changed from China to the Amazon jungle, and the tone is somewhat lighter. The conflict between a man's conscience and his corporate loyalty, which is a principal theme of the original, is less important in this film. Plot summary Cast * Constance Bennett as Joan Madison * Jeffrey Lynn as Jim Conwoy * Regis Toomey as Tom Marshall * Mona Maris as Rita Marshall * Hobart Bosworth as Boss Frank Davis * Frank Puglia as Tito * Thomas E. Jackson as Det. Maguire * Paul Harvey as Alfred King, Sr. * Craig Stevens as Alfred King, Jr. * Charles Judels as Cap * Roland Drew as Hotel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Men Of Missouri
''Bad Men of Missouri'' is a 1941 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and written by Charles Grayson. The film stars Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Wayne Morris and Arthur Kennedy. The film was released by Warner Bros. on July 26, 1941. Plot After the war, with Confederate money now useless, many Missouri farmers find themselves unable to pay their bills. William Merrick and his men begin foreclosing on them or running them off, resulting in the death of Martha Adams, sweetheart of one of the Younger gang. The brothers Cole, Bob and Jim Younger ride back to Missouri just as their father is shot by Merrick's hired gun, Greg Bilson. A sheriff is killed as well and the Youngers are falsely accused of murdering him, so they retaliate by joining Jesse James's gang and pulling off robberies, giving the money to the needy farmers to pay their taxes. Merrick decides to flush out Jim Younger by arresting the woman he loves, Mary Hathaway, as an accomplice to the Younger brothers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
