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Writer 1899 - 1964

Alan Le May

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

9 titles
Blackbeard, the Pirate

Blackbeard, the Pirate

Raoul Walsh 1952 1h 39m 6.5

Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

Rocky Mountain

Rocky Mountain

William Keighley 1950 1h 23m 7.0

A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West for the faltering Confederacy.

The Walking Hills

The Walking Hills

John Sturges 1949 1h 18m

A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.

Tap Roots

Tap Roots

George Marshall 1948 1h 49m 6.0

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman.

Gunfighters

Gunfighters

George Waggner 1947 1h 28m

Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as a cowhand on the Inskip ranch. Upon arriving there he finds the bullet-riddled body of his friend.

San Antonio

San Antonio

David Butler 1945 1h 49m

Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr.

The Story of Dr. Wassell

The Story of Dr. Wassell

Cecil B. DeMille 1944 2h 20m 6.0

As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.

Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind

Cecil B. DeMille 1942 1h 59m 7.3

Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.

North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police

Cecil B. DeMille 1940 2h 6m 6.0

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation.

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