Jack Natteford (November 27, 1894 – January 7, 1970) was an American
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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. He wrote for more than 140 films between 1921 and 1967. He was born in
Wahoo, Nebraska
Wahoo (; from Dakota ; " arrow wood") is a city and county seat of Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 4,508 at the 2010 census.
History
Wahoo was founded in 1870. The town's name comes from the eastern wahoo (''Euon ...
and died in
Los Angeles County, California
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. He was married to fellow screenwriter
Luci Ward
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Soiled
Soiled is an English experimental, electro-minimal cinematographic music project, created in 2002 by Marcus H. He has released five albums, numerous EPs, collaborations and compilation tracks.
History
Marcus H is originally from Bristol having p ...
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Fair Play
Fair play or Fairplay usually refers to sportsmanship.
Fair play or Fairplay may also refer to:
Media
* ''Fair Play'' (1925 film), an American silent film
* ''Fair Play'', a 1972 TV movie starring Paul Ford
* ''Fair Play'' (2014 film), a Czech ...
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Wild West
The American frontier, also known as the Old West or the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial ...
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The Verdict
''The Verdict'' is a 1982 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by David Mamet, adapted from Barry Reed's 1980 novel of the same name. It stars Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea, and ...
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The Call of the Klondike
''The Call of the Klondike'' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Oscar Apfel and starring Gaston Glass, Dorothy Dwan and Earl Metcalfe.
Cast
* Gaston Glass as Dick Norton
* Dorothy Dwan as Violet Winter
* Earl Metcalfe as Mort ...
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Moran of the Mounted
''Moran of the Mounted'' is a 1926 American silent western film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring Reed Howes, Sheldon Lewis and Virginia Warwick.Connelly p.388 A northern, it was distributed by the independent Rayart Pictures, the forerun ...
Sin Cargo
''Sin Cargo'' is a 1926 American silent thriller film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Shirley Mason, Robert Frazer and Earl Metcalfe. The film's sets were designed by the art director Edwin B. Willis.
Plot
The film is about a man i ...
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The Tired Business Man
''The Tired Business Man'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Allen Dale and starring Raymond Hitchcock, Dot Farley and Margaret Quimby.Munden p.816 It was produced and released by the independent studio Tiffany Pictures. The fil ...
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The Broken Gate
''The Broken Gate'' is a lost 1920 American silent drama film directed by Paul Scardon and starring Bessie Barriscale. It was distributed jointly by W. W. Hodkinson and Pathé Exchange.
Cast
*Bessie Barriscale as Aurora Lane
*Joseph Kilgour as ...
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The Beauty Shoppers
''The Beauty Shoppers'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Mae Busch, Doris Hill and Ward Crane.Munden p.46
Cast
* Mae Busch as Mabel Hines
* Doris Hill as Peggy Raymond
* Ward Crane as Sloane M ...
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Backstage
Backstage most commonly refers to backstage (theatre), also in motion picture and television production.
Backstage may also refer to:
Film and television
* ''Back Stage'' (1969 film), a silent film starring Oliver Hardy
* ''Back Stage'' (1942 fil ...
Lightning
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The Ladybird
''The Ladybird'' is a long tale or novella by D. H. Lawrence.
It was first drafted in 1915 as a short story entitled ''The Thimble''. Lawrence rewrote and extended it under a new title in December 1921 and sent the final version to his Engli ...
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Streets of Shanghai
''Streets of Shanghai'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and written by Harry Braxton and Jack Natteford. The film, starring Pauline Starke, Kenneth Harlan, and Eddie Gribbon, was released by Tiffany-Stahl Produc ...
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The Man in Hobbles
''The Man in Hobbles'' is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by George Archainbaud and starring John Harron, Lila Lee and Lucien Littlefield.Babington & Barr p.133 The film's sets were designed by the art director Hervey Libbert.
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Ladies of the Night Club
''Ladies of the Night Club'' is a 1928 American comedy film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Ricardo Cortez, Barbara Leonard and Lee Moran.Munden p.413 It was produced during the transition to sound film and is essentially a silent fil ...
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Beautiful But Dumb
''Beautiful But Dumb'' is a 1928 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Elmer Clifton and starring Patsy Ruth Miller, Charles Byer and George E. Stone.Munden p.45
A stenographer has a makeover and schemes to snare her boss.
Cast
* P ...
Lingerie
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Untamed Justice
''Untamed Justice'' is a 1929 American silent action film directed by Harry S. Webb and starring Virginia Brown Faire, Gaston Glass and David Torrence.Munden p.850
Cast
* Virginia Brown Faire as Louise Hill
* Gaston Glass as Norman Bard, Air ...
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Border Romance
''Border Romance'' is a 1929 American pre-Code Western romance film directed by Richard Thorpe. An early sound film, it stars Armida, Don Terry, Marjorie Kane, and Victor Potel.
A copy is preserved at the Library of Congress, Packard.''Catalog ...
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Dark Skies
''Dark Skies'' is an American UFO conspiracy theory-based sci-fi television series that debuted on NBC on September 21, 1996, and ended on May 31, 1997, and was later rerun by the Sci-Fi Channel; 18 episodes and a two-hour pilot episode were br ...
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New Orleans
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Two Men and a Maid
''Two Men and a Maid'' is a 1929 American romantic drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring William Collier Jr., Alma Bennett and Eddie Gribbon.Pitts p.409
Premise
Wrongly believing that his wife has another lover, a man enlists ...
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The Lost Zeppelin
''The Lost Zeppelin'' is a 1929 sound adventure film directed by Edward Sloman and produced and distributed by Tiffany- Stahl. The film stars Conway Tearle, Virginia Valli and Ricardo Cortez.
Tearle plays a navy officer modeled on U. S. Navy Co ...
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Troopers Three
''Troopers Three'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and B. Reeves Eason and produced and distributed by Tiffany Studios.
Plot
Eddie Haskins (Lease), a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known ...
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Wild Horse
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Two Gun Man
''Two Gun Man'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Ken Maynard, Lucille Powers, and Charles King. It was released on May 15, 1931, by Tiffany Productions and was later re=released by Amity Pictures ...
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File 113
''File 113'' is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Chester Franklin and starring Lew Cody, Mary Nolan and June Clyde.Pitts p.25 Monsieur Lecoq, a Parisian detective solves a series of crimes. It is based on a story by the nineteen ...
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The Last of the Mohicans
''The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757'' is a historical romance written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826.
It is the second book of the '' Leatherstocking Tales'' pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. '' The Pathfinde ...
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His Private Secretary
''His Private Secretary'' is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Phil Whitman and starring Evalyn Knapp and John Wayne. It is an early Wayne non-Western film appearance, made when he was 26 years old.
Plot
Dick Wallace (Wayne) h ...
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Fargo Express
''Fargo Express'' is a 1933 American pre-Code Western film directed by Alan James and starring Ken Maynard, Helen Mack and Roy Stewart.Darby, p. 355
Cast
* Ken Maynard as Ken Benton
* Helen Mack as Helen Clark
* Roy Stewart as Sam Goss
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Neighbors' Wives
''Neighbors' Wives'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Dorothy Mackaill, Tom Moore and Mary Kornman.Dooley, p. 338
Cast
* Dorothy Mackaill as Helen McGrath
* Tom Moore as John McGrath
* Mary Kornma ...
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The Brand of Hate
''The Brand of Hate'' is a 1934 American Western film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring Bob Steele, Lucile Browne and William Farnum.
Cast
* Bob Steele as Rod Camp
*Lucile Browne as Margie Larkins
*William Farnum as Joe Larkins
*Mi ...
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1,000 Dollars a Minute
''1,000 Dollars a Minute'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Aubrey Scotto and starring Roger Pryor and Leila Hyams. The film was released on October 22, 1935. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recordin ...
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The Lonely Trail
''The Lonely Trail'' is a 1936 American Western film starring John Wayne and Ann Rutherford.
Plot
Though he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid of some troublesome carpetbaggers. He enlists ...
Heroes of the Hills
''Heroes of the Hills'' is a 1938 American Western " Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.
Cast
* Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke
* Ray Corrigan as Tucson Smith
* Max Terhune as Lullaby Joslin
* Priscilla Lawson as Madelin ...
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Come On, Rangers
''Come On, Rangers'' is a 1938 American Western musical film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers.
Plot
The Texas Rangers are disbanded, so Roy joins the Cavalry but deserts when the Cavalry can't stop the outlaws and his brother di ...
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Heroes of the Saddle
''Heroes of the Saddle'' is a 1940 American Western " Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by William Witney.
Cast
* Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke
* Raymond Hatton as Rusty Joslin
* Duncan Renaldo as Renaldo
* Patsy Parsons as Peggy Bell ...
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Pioneers of the West
''Pioneers of the West'' is a 1940 American Western " Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by Lester Orlebeck.
Cast
* Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke
* Raymond Hatton as Rusty Joslin
* Duncan Renaldo as Renaldo
* Noah Beery as Judge Platt
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Return of the Bad Men
''Return of the Bad Men'', also known as ''Return of the Badmen'', is a 1948 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan and Anne Jeffreys.Jarlett p.192-93 A loose sequel to the 1946 fi ...
The Last Bandit
''The Last Bandit'' is a 1949 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Wild Bill Elliott, Bill Elliott, Lorna Gray and Forrest Tucker. It was a remake by Republic Pictures of the 1941 film ''The Great Train Rob ...
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Cattle Drive
A cattle drive is the process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another, usually moved and herded by cowboys on horses.
Europe
In medieval central Europe, annual cattle drives brought Hungarian Grey cattle across the Danube River ...
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East of Sumatra
''East of Sumatra'' is a 1953 American south seas adventure film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Jeff Chandler, Marilyn Maxwell, Anthony Quinn and Suzan Ball.
Plot
Duke Mullane (Jeff Chandler), manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a ...
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The Night the World Exploded
''The Night the World Exploded'' is a 1957 science fiction, disaster film. The film was written by Jack Natteford and Luci Ward, and directed by Fred F. Sears for producer Sam Katzman. Both Katzman and Sears were great exponents of the low-budge ...