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Borden Chase
Writer 1900 - 1970

Borden Chase

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Born Frank Fowler in Brooklyn , New York, Borden Chase served in the Navy during World War I and put in time as a shipyard worker, carnival high diver, driver for gangster Frankie Yale, and sandhog on the New York's Holland Tunnel before turning to writing. He penned pulp... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

19 titles
Ride a Crooked Trail

Ride a Crooked Trail

Jesse Hibbs 1958 1h 28m 6.0

Fugitive bank robber Joe Maybe assumes the identity of a dead marshal after he rides into a town whose judge asks Joe to act as town marshal, but an old flame almost betrays his real identity, forcing Joe to claim she's his wife.

Night Passage

Night Passage

James Neilson 1957 1h 30m 6.3

Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, 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.

Backlash

Backlash

John Sturges 1956 1h 24m 7.5

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.

Man Without a Star

Man Without a Star

King Vidor 1955 1h 29m 7.3

Man Without a Star is a 1955 western film starring Kirk Douglas as a wanderer who gets dragged into a range war. It was based on the novel of the same name by Dee Linford.

Vera Cruz

Vera Cruz

Robert Aldrich 1954 1h 34m 7.4

After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money.

The Far Country

The Far Country

Anthony Mann 1954 1h 37m 8.0

A self-minded adventurer (Jeff Webster) locks horns with a crooked lawman (Mr. Gannon) while driving cattle to Dawson.

His Majesty O'Keefe

His Majesty O'Keefe

Byron Haskin 1954 1h 30m 3.0

A Yankee sea captain has adventures in paradise trying to become an entrepreneur in Micronesia.

Sea Devils

Sea Devils

Raoul Walsh 1953 1h 31m 5.5

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.

The World in His Arms

The World in His Arms

Raoul Walsh 1952 1h 44m 7.3

A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.

Lone Star

Lone Star

Vincent Sherman 1952 1h 34m 6.0

Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who 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.

Bend of the River

Bend of the River

Anthony Mann 1952 1h 31m 7.4

Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...

Iron Man

Iron Man

Joseph Pevney 1951 1h 22m

An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.

Winchester '73

Winchester '73

Anthony Mann 1950 1h 32m 8.4

Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.

Montana

Montana

Ray Enright 1950 1h 16m

An Australian sheepman comes to Montana looking for grazing space, and is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.

Red River

Red River

Howard Hawks 1948 2h 13m 8.0

Dunson is driving his cattle to Red River when his adopted son, Matthew, turns against him.

Tycoon

Tycoon

Richard Wallace 1947 2h 8m 4.0

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

Flame of Barbary Coast

Flame of Barbary Coast

Joseph Kane 1945 1h 31m 6.0

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.

The Fighting Seabees

The Fighting Seabees

Edward Ludwig 1944 1h 40m 6.0

During WW2, the U.S. Navy implements a new idea of forming construction battalions that also are fighting units, in case of Japanese attack.

Blue, White and Perfect

Blue, White and Perfect

Herbert I. Leeds 1942 1h 14m

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.

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