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Jesse Lasky Jr.
Writer 1910 - 1988

Jesse Lasky Jr.

New York, États-Unis

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

16 titles
Pirates of Tortuga

Pirates of Tortuga

Robert D. Webb 1961 1h 37m

An English captain is sent to Spanish-controlled Tortuga to deal with privateer Henry Morgan, who defected from England and now runs a pirate operation, plundering all ships, including English vessels,

The Buccaneer

The Buccaneer

Anthony Quinn 1958 1h 59m 7.0

During the War of 1812, Louisiana buccaneer Jean Lafitte assists the Americans in defending New Orleans against the attacking British war fleet.

The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

Cecil B. DeMille 1956 3h 40m 7.9

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.

Pearl of the South Pacific

Pearl of the South Pacific

Allan Dwan 1955 1h 26m 8.0

Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the latter's handome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary!

Hell and High Water

Hell and High Water

Samuel Fuller 1954 1h 43m 5.3

A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.

The Silver Whip

The Silver Whip

Harmon Jones 1953 1h 13m

Frustrated with the lack of opportunities in his hometown, young Jess Harker plans to leave, but sympathetic stagecoach armed guard Race Crim persuades his boss to give Jess the stage driver job.

Salome

Salome

William Dieterle 1953 1h 43m 6.0

In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter.

Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah

Cecil B. DeMille 1949 2h 14m 6.3

The classic story of Samson and Delilah as told by Cecil B. DeMille.

Unconquered

Unconquered

Cecil B. DeMille 1947 2h 27m 5.0

Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.

The Omaha Trail

The Omaha Trail

Edward Buzzell, Edward L. Cahn 1942 1h 2m

The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.

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.

Back in the Saddle

Back in the Saddle

Lew Landers 1941 1h 13m

Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a man is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Now Gene not only has the dying cattle problem but his ranch owner is in jail.

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.

Union Pacific

Union Pacific

Cecil B. DeMille 1939 2h 15m 7.5

In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California. A crooked politician tries to stop construction of the transcontinental railroad.

Secret Agent

Secret Agent

Alfred Hitchcock 1936 1h 26m 6.9

After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.

The White Parade

The White Parade

Irving Cummings 1934 1h 20m

The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade.

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