Adapting his own novel, Frank Gruber penned the screenplay for the A.C. Lyles production Town Tamer. Veteran filmmaker Leslie...
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1965
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Short Story Author
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1965
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Sounding something like a standard '40s police story, this talkative but interesting murder mystery stars David Janssen of...
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Book Author, Producer, Screenwriter
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1961
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Produced by Alan Ladd's own Jaguar company, The Big Land stars Ladd as Texas cattleman Morgan. As a means to expedite...
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Book Author
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1957
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In this typical 1950s Western, cowboy Wes Tancred (Richard Egan) is publicly vilified after killing a famous gunslinger who...
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Book Author
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1956
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Frank Gruber's novel The Lock and the Key was adapted for the big screen by Burt Kennedy as The Man in the Vault. William...
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Book Author
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1956
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The breathtakingly beautiful Technicolor cinematography of Irving Glassberg is but one of the many small pleasures of the...
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Book Author
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1956
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Since lapsing into public domain, Rage at Dawn has become one of the most readily available of Randolph Scott's westerns....
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Short Story Author
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1955
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The action in this loose adaptation of a popular 1925 silent tells the galloping (and largely untrue) tale if the formation...
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Short Story Author
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1953
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Surprisingly, the Paramount Technicolor actioner Hurricane Smith was not produced by the studio's Pine-Thomas unit (it sure...
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Screenwriter
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1952
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In this western, a cowboy rides out to avenge the death of his fiancee. Three outlaws are responsible for the murder. He...
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Screenwriter
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1951
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Screenwriter
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1951
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An excellent cast brings distinction to the pedestrian goings-on in Silver City. Per its title, the film is set in...
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Screenwriter
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1951
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Screenwriter
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1951
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Not a remake of the 1936 film of the same name, The Texas Rangers is an enjoyable second-echelon western from the Columbia...
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Short Story Author
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1951
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Set in British Columbia but filmed in Colorado, Cariboo Trail stars Randolph Scott as a cattle-drive boss from Montana....
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1950
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Screenwriter
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1950
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Although Marie Windsor plays the title role in Dakota Lil, she is shunted away to third billing, right after male leads...
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Short Story Author
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1950
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Randolph Scott plays one of the members of Quantrill's Raiders, staging attacks on Kansas on behalf of the fallen Confederacy...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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In this episode of the Bulldog Drummond series, the amateur detective looks into the case of a murdered sea captain who was...
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Screenwriter
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1948
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Accomplice was the "pilot" for a proposed PRC series based on Frank Gruber's short-tempered detective hero Simon Lash....
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Book Author, Screenwriter
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1946
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French Key is a Republic Pictures murder mystery with all of the studio's genre trademarks: Good cast, reasonably good...
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Book Author, Screenwriter
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1946
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Director Joseph Kane adapted his own story Diamond Carlisle for the screenplay of In Old Sacramento--the third film version...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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The penultimate entry in Universal's Sherlock Holmes series, Terror by Night takes place almost exclusively on a speeding...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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Based on the prolific Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries, Sherlock Holmes is on the job again. This time the inmate of a...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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In this western, a wagonmaster stops a greedy newspaper editor from buying up an entire territory. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Short Story Author
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1945
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Screenwriter
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1945
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Zachary Scott made his screen debut in this clever bit of film noir that has gained a cult reputation in recent years. Dutch...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release,...
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Book Author
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1943
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The fact that star Errol Flynn had been recently embroiled in a real-life rape trial only served to increase the box-office...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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A champion Great Dane is the murder victim in this mystery. Investigating the case is the youthful assistant of a travelling...
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Short Story Author
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1939
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