Maxwell Shane — Playwright (17)
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I Cover Big Town (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
I Cover Big Town
director: William C. Thomas actor: Phillip Reed / Hillary Brooke …
One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to the police beat. Her paper, "The Illustrated Press", following its usual policy of socially-correct muckraking by crusading editor Steve Wilson, is putting heat on the chief of police. But Lorelei believes the chief is qualified to do the job. She and managing editor Steve Wilson, who, in the film series, is wrong more often than right, discover a corpse and then proceed to help the police solve the crime.
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Minesweeper (1943) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Minesweeper
director: William Berke actor: Richard Arlen / Jean Parker …
A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.
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Dark Mountain (1944) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Dark Mountain
director: William Berke actor: Robert Lowery / Ellen Drew …
A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help. He hides her out in a cabin up in the mountains, and her husband goes on the hunt for both of them.
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Submarine Alert (1943) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Submarine Alert
director: Frank McDonald actor: Richard Arlen / Wendy Barrie …
other title: Alerta submarina
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.
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Hell's Island (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Hell's Island
director: Phil Karlson actor: John Payne / Mary Murphy …
other title: Il demone dell'isola / Dem Teufel auf der Spur …
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
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The Glass Wall (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Glass Wall
director: Maxwell Shane actor: Vittorio Gassman / Gloria Grahame …
other title: Il muro di vetro / Die gläserne Mauer …
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped during the war, as Tom can prove Peter's right to legal entry into the United States. If he can't find Tom within 24 hours and prove his case, he will be branded a fugitive and will be permanently disqualified for U.S. citizenship.
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The Naked Street (1955) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Naked Street
director: Maxwell Shane actor: Farley Granger / Anthony Quinn …
other title: Brooklyn chiama polizia / Nackte Straßen …
To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of prison. But Regal’s meddling deeds soon backfire.
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Fear in the Night (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Fear in the Night
director: Maxwell Shane actor: Paul Kelly / DeForest Kelley …
other title: Angoscia nella notte / Una sombra en el espejo …
The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a mysterious woman breaks into a safe. It is so vivid that Vince suspects it may have really happened. To get the dream off his mind, he goes on a picnic with some relatives. When a thunderstorm forces his party into a nearby mansion, Vince discovers that the bizarre room does exist, and it means nothing but trouble.