Borden Chase — Playwright (17)
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Tycoon (1947) IMDb TMDB
Tycoon
director: Richard Wallace actor: John Wayne / Laraine Day …
other title: La grande conquista / Taïkoun …
Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love with his boss's daughter
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Blue, White and Perfect (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Blue, White and Perfect
director: Herbert I. Leeds actor: Lloyd Nolan / Mary Beth Hughes …
other title: Il mistero dei diamanti / Contrabando
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
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Flame of Barbary Coast (1945) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Flame of Barbary Coast
director: Joseph Kane actor: John Wayne / Ann Dvorak …
other title: Fiamme a San Francisco / San Francisco Lilly …
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
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Lone Star (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Lone Star
director: Vincent Sherman actor: Clark Gable / Ava Gardner …
other title: Stella solitaria / Estrela do Destino …
Cattle baron Devereaux Burke is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic. Burke must fight state senator Thomas Craden, in the process winning the heart of Craden's newspaper-editor girlfriend Martha Ronda.
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Night Passage (1957) IMDb TMDB
Night Passage
director: James Neilson actor: James Stewart / Audie Murphy …
other title: Passaggio di notte / Duelo de Gigantes …
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
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Backlash (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Backlash
director: John Sturges actor: Richard Widmark / Donna Reed …
other title: La frustata / Punidos Pelo Próprio Sangue …
Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.
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Ride a Crooked Trail (1958) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ride a Crooked Trail
director: Jesse Hibbs actor: Audie Murphy / Gia Scala …
other title: Il sentiero della rapina / Der weiße Teufel von Arkansas …
After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local judge, Matthau. Murphy is forced to remain as the new Marshal; an old flame, Scala, nearly unmasks him by accident, only to be forced to assume the ruse of being Murphy's wife. The "couple" given a house and respectability, which neither has had before. They maintain the charade to avoid hurting a young orphan boy, Matthau's ward. Scala is torn by her loyalty to boyfriend planning to rob the bank and growing feelings for Murphy
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Sea Devils (1953) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sea Devils
director: Raoul Walsh actor: Yvonne De Carlo / Rock Hudson …
other title: Gli sparvieri dello stretto / Im Schatten des Korsen …
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.
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Vera Cruz (1954)
Vera Cruz
director: Robert Aldrich actor: Gary Cooper / Burt Lancaster …
other title: 黄金篷车大作战 / 龙虎干戈 …
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.