Known for Directing
Born
January 26, 1906
Died
April 28, 1987 (age 81)
Birthplace
Ravia, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, USA
Filmography
68 films


From Noon Till Three
1976 · 1h 39m · US
Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning of his comrades' demise, Dorsey goes on the lam. Believing her short-term lover was killed by the law, Amanda decides to make the most of having had a liaison with the supposedly deceased desperado by writing a book about him. Much to his confusion, the still-living Dorsey watches as his name becomes legendary.


The Chase
1966 · 2h 15m · US
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.


King Rat
1965 · 2h 14m · US
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.


Cheyenne Autumn
1964 · 2h 37m · US
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.


A Distant Trumpet
1964 · 1h 57m · US
In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.


Hatari!
1962 · 2h 37m · US
A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.


House of Women
1962 · 1h 25m · US
An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.


The Sins of Rachel Cade
1961 · 2h 4m · US
A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.


Violent Road
1958 · 1h 26m · US
Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.


The Left Handed Gun
1958 · 1h 42m · US
When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.


Top Secret Affair
1957 · 1h 40m · US
A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track.


Battle Cry
1955 · 2h 29m · US
The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat.


Carson City
1952 · 1h 27m · US
Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.


This Woman Is Dangerous
1952 · 1h 40m · US
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor. As expected not only does the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opens her heart for him.


Operation Pacific
1951 · 1h 51m · US
During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.


White Heat
1949 · 1h 54m · US
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.


Colorado Territory
1949 · 1h 34m · US
After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.


Silver River
1948 · 1h 50m · US
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.


Pursued
1947 · 1h 41m · US
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.


Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 · 1h 58m · US
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!


Gentleman Jim
1942 · 1h 44m · US
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.


They Died with Their Boots On
1941 · 2h 20m · US
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.


Manpower
1941 · 1h 44m · US
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.


The Strawberry Blonde
1941 · 1h 37m · US
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.


High Sierra
1941 · 1h 40m · US
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.


A Fugitive from Justice
1940 · 53m · US
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.


It All Came True
1940 · 1h 37m · US
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.


On Dress Parade
1939 · 1h 2m · US
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.


Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
1939 · 1h · US
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.


Torchy Runs for Mayor
1939 · 1h · US
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.


Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939 · 1h 8m · US
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which high school students are asked to submit a news story, Nancy Drew intercepts a real story assignment concerning the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.


Torchy Blane in Panama
1938 · 59m · US
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.


Hollywood Hotel
1938 · 1h 49m · US
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.


The Go-Getter
1937 · 1h 32m · US
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.


Love Begins at Twenty
1936 · 58m · US
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.


The Walking Dead
1936 · 1h 6m · US
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.


Dangerous
1935 · 1h 19m · US
Don Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.


A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935 · 2h 23m · US
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.


We're in the Money
1935 · 1h 6m · US
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.


Black Fury
1935 · 1h 34m · US
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.


The Secret Bride
1934 · 1h 4m · US
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of taking bribes. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue complicates, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon, Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.