Edwin L. Marin — Director (17)
A Gentleman After Dark (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Gentleman After Dark
other title: Io la difendo
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
Abilene Town (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Abilene Town
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: Randolph Scott / Ann Dvorak
other title: I predoni della città / Banditen ohne Maske
Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to themselves, while townspeople occupied the other end. Mitchell liked it this way, it made things easier for him, and kept problems from arising between the two factions. However…
Speed (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Speed
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: James Stewart / Wendy Barrie
other title: La prueba suprema
Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane to be their girl. Terry has designed a new carburetor that should bring him fame and money, but he cannot get it to work correctly. Terry and Gadget have tested it for over a year, but it still is not perfected. Emery Motors assigns Frank to help Terry with the carburetor, but Terry is not happy because Frank is an Engineer and is also vying for Jane. They finish the carburetor, and to test it, they enter a car in the Indianapolis 500 race. Terry is not yet satisfied with the carburetor before the big race even though it has passed all the tests.
Tall in the Saddle (1944) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Tall in the Saddle
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: John Wayne / Ella Raines
other title: Romanzo nel West / En Cowboy Renser Byen
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart the scheming to take the ranch from its rightful owner.
Nocturne (1946) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Nocturne
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: George Raft / Lynn Bari
other title: Notturno di sangue / Nocturno
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
Paris Calling (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Paris Calling
other title: Ici Londres
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...
A Study in Scarlet (1933) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
A Study in Scarlet
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: Reginald Owen / June Clyde
other title: Sherlock Holmes - Une étude en rouge / Estudio en rojo
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
A Christmas Carol (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Christmas Carol
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: Reginald Owen / Gene Lockhart
other title: Cuento de Navidad / Un conte de Noël
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.