Kenneth Gamet — Playwright (21)
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You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
You Can't Get Away with Murder
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Humphrey Bogart / Gale Page …
other title: La bolgia dei vivi / Le Châtiment …
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.
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The Smiling Ghost (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Smiling Ghost
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Wayne Morris / Brenda Marshall …
other title: Verlobung mit dem Tod / El fantasma sonriente
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Nancy Drew... Reporter
director: William Clemens actor: Bonita Granville / John Litel …
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of 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.
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Pittsburgh (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Pittsburgh
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Marlene Dietrich / Randolph Scott …
other title: La febbre dell'oro nero / Sangue Negro …
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.
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The Maverick Queen (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Maverick Queen
director: Joseph Kane actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Barry Sullivan …
other title: Il mio amante è un bandito / Até a Última Bala …
Kit Banion, a Virginia-born beauty and product of post-Civil War chaos, has settled in Wyoming and prospered; acquiring a fortune and a hotel, which, like the owner bears the name of "The Maverick Queen."---a title picked up by Kit in her earlier days in Wyoming when she took every unbranded steer and put her own brand on it. Love and trouble enter her life in the person of a Pinkerton detective posing as Jeff Younger, nephew of the infamous Younger brothers. He is dedicated to catching Butch Cassidy and the members of The Wild Bunch
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
director: William Clemens actor: Donald Woods / Ann Dvorak …
other title: La vittima sommersa
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
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Flowing Gold (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Flowing Gold
director: Alfred E. Green actor: John Garfield / Frances Farmer …
other title: Das Ultimatum für Bohrturm L 9 / L'Or coule
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
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The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Stranger Wore a Gun
director: André de Toth actor: Randolph Scott / Claire Trevor …
other title: Lo straniero ha sempre una pistola / O Forasteiro Estava Armado …
Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. When his plan to have another gang get Mourret fails, he has to go after them himself.
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Man in the Saddle (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Man in the Saddle
director: André de Toth actor: Randolph Scott / Joan Leslie …
other title: Il cavaliere del deserto / Terra do Inferno …
A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.