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Frank Butler
Writer 1890 - 1967

Frank Butler

Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

23 titles
The Miracle

The Miracle

Irving Rapper 1959 2h 1m

A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.

Strange Lady in Town

Strange Lady in Town

Mervyn LeRoy 1955 1h 52m

There's a new doctor in old Santa Fe, and it's Greer Garson. Director Mervyn LeRoy's 1955 western also stars Dana Andrews, Cameron Mitchell, Lois Smith, Walter Hampden, Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales, Earl Holliman, Adele Jergens, Robert Wilke, Frank DeKova, Nick Adams, Douglas Kennedy, Ralph Moody and Louise Lorimer.

Road to Bali

Road to Bali

Hal Walker 1952 1h 31m 6.0

Two unemployed show-biz pals accept treasure-diving work in Bali for a local princess and they find treasure, love and trouble.

Whispering Smith

Whispering Smith

Leslie Fenton 1948 1h 29m 6.0

Legendary railroad detective Whispering Smith becomes convinced that old friend and colleague Murray Sinclair has joined a criminal band to loot the railroad.

Welcome Stranger

Welcome Stranger

Elliott Nugent 1947 1h 47m 7.0

Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his temporary replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young, singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once Pearson meets teacher Trudy Mason, he is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé.

The Perils of Pauline

The Perils of Pauline

George Marshall 1947 1h 36m 4.0

Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials.

Golden Earrings

Golden Earrings

Mitchell Leisen 1947 1h 35m 4.0

A British colonel (Ray Milland) escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's (Marlene Dietrich) mate.

Incendiary Blonde

Incendiary Blonde

George Marshall 1945 1h 53m 6.0

Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"

A Medal for Benny

A Medal for Benny

Irving Pichel 1945 1h 17m

Benny's girl friend (Dorothy Lamour) is being romanced by the town ne'er do well (Arturo de Cordova) who keeps coming up with get-rich-quick schemes. Benny's father (J. Carrol Naish in an Oscar-nominated performance) is a simple man who is bewildered by the world at large.

Going My Way

Going My Way

Leo McCarey 1944 2h 6m 6.7

When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of his new assistant.

China

China

John Farrow 1943 1h 19m 6.0

During the Japanese invasion of China, a cynical, macho profiteer meets a compassionate, beautiful schoolteacher.

Wake Island

Wake Island

John Farrow 1942 1h 27m

In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.

Road to Morocco

Road to Morocco

David Butler 1942 1h 22m 6.0

Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.

My Favorite Blonde

My Favorite Blonde

Sidney Lanfield 1942 1h 18m

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.

Road to Zanzibar

Road to Zanzibar

Victor Schertzinger 1941 1h 31m 6.0

Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.

Road to Singapore

Road to Singapore

Victor Schertzinger 1940 1h 25m 6.0

Bing Crosby an Bob Hope star in the first of the 'Road to' movies as two playboys trying to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...

The Princess Comes Across

The Princess Comes Across

William K. Howard 1936 1h 16m

A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.

The Milky Way

The Milky Way

Leo McCarey 1936 1h 29m 5.0

Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.

The Bohemian Girl

The Bohemian Girl

Charley Rogers, James W. Horne 1936 1h 11m 6.0

Film version of Michael William Balfe's opera. In addition to Laurel and Hardy, the film stars Thelma Todd in her last role.

Bonnie Scotland

Bonnie Scotland

James W. Horne 1935 1h 20m 6.0

Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.

Search for Beauty

Search for Beauty

Erle C. Kenton 1934 1h 18m

Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.

Ladies Should Listen

Ladies Should Listen

Frank Tuttle 1934 1h 2m

The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.

Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland

Charley Rogers, Gus Meins 1934 1h 18m 5.8

Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.

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