Known for Directing
Filmography
34 films


The Desperate Mission
1969 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francisco.


Planet of the Apes
1968 · 1h 52m
country: United States
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.


A Distant Trumpet
1964 · 1h 57m
country: United States
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.


Claudelle Inglish
1961 · 1h 39m
country: United States
A young daughter of poor farmers is forced by her mother to ditch her young boyfriend in order to marry an old rich neighbor but the girl rebels by becoming the town's harlot.


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


Gold of the Seven Saints
1961 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Fur-trapping partners stumble across a cache of gold, but their discovery quickly attracts every greedy villain in the territory.


The Young Philadelphians
1959 · 2h 16m
country: United States
Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.


Westbound
1959 · 1h 9m
country: United States
As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost.


Fort Dobbs
1958 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Eluding a sheriff's posse, an escaped man saves a farming family from a Comanche attack and escorts it to the nearby Fort Dobbs.


The Green-Eyed Blonde
1957 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (working under the pseudonym “Sally Stubblefield”) tells a rough-edged tale of life inside a 1950s women’s reformatory. Set in the Martha Washington School for Girls—an institute for wayward teenagers and unwed mothers—THE GREEN-EYED BLONDE tackles a range of topical social issues as the inmates band together to help out one of their own when she refuses to give up her child.


Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
1957 · 1h 27m
country: United States
In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.


The Big Land
1957 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.


Hell on Frisco Bay
1955 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.


Battle Cry
1955 · 2h 29m
country: United States
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.


A Lion Is in the Streets
1953 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?


Bugles in the Afternoon
1952 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman.


Only the Valiant
1951 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Only the Valiant, a classic western adventure, based on a novel by Charles Marquis Warren, the film tells the story of a Cavalry officer who volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves.


Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
1950 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.


The Cariboo Trail
1950 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country.


Fighting Man of the Plains
1949 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Former bandit Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the criminal element - with the help of his old pal, Jesse James.


One Last Fling
1949 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company.


A Kiss in the Dark
1949 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Eric Phillips's manager buys him a building with tenants, one of whom catches his eye.


Shadow of a Woman
1946 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Brooke's brief marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that he is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.


Mr. Skeffington
1944 · 2h 25m
country: United States
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.


I Was Framed
1942 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.


Underground
1941 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.


The Case of the Black Parrot
1941 · 1h
country: United States
Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met Sandy and fallen for her during the voyage, suspects something odd about the cabinet. His suspicions are confirmed when people who have touched the cabinet mysteriously die. Jim and Sandy set out to solve the mystery before anyone else can become a victim.


South of Suez
1940 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on Gamble. Grabbing the diamonds, Gamble flees Africa to England where he changes his name and begins a new life. What he hasn't counted on, though, is meeting and falling in love with Smythe's daughter Katherine, who falls in love with him but can't marry him until she can deal with her hatred of John Gamble, the man she believes killed her father.


The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters.


Murder in the Air
1940 · 55m
country: United States
Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a tattoo of a circle and arrow. This is a tattoo for saboteurs for hire and Brass must impersonate the dead man to find out what his orders are. As Steve Coe, he meets with the band of enemy agents in California and everything goes well until the wife of the dead 'Hobo' shows up. Luckily, Gabby is able to save Brass and Brass learns what is his assignment. He is to board the USN airship 'Mason', which is testing the super secret Inertia Projector, and destroy the airship.


Private Detective
1939 · 55m
country: United States
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.


Dust Be My Destiny
1939 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.


You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.