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Writer 1908 - 1989

John Bright

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

10 titles
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad

Reginald Le Borg 1948 1h 14m

Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.

Close-Up

Close-Up

Jack Donohue 1948 1h 16m

A photographer accidentally photographs a Nazi war criminal on the streets of New York and becomes a target for reprisals and murder.

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

John Rawlins 1942 1h 5m 7.0

England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defence Committee call in Holmes ...

San Quentin

San Quentin

Lloyd Bacon 1937 1h 10m 7.0

Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.

She Done Him Wrong

She Done Him Wrong

Lowell Sherman 1933 1h 5m 7.0

New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. Unfortunately one of them is a vicious criminal who's escaped and is on the way to see "his" girl, not realising she hasn't exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings a local temperance league leader though.

Three on a Match

Three on a Match

Mervyn LeRoy 1932 1h 3m 9.0

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million

Ernst Lubitsch, Stephen Roberts 1932 1h 28m 7.5

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

The Public Enemy

The Public Enemy

William A. Wellman 1931 1h 24m 7.5

James Cagney star's as Tom Powers, a trouble-ridden individual who rises from the position of cheap thug to that of a powerful Prohibition gangster. When his best friend is murdered, Powers self-destructively seeks deadly retaliation.

Smart Money

Smart Money

Alfred E. Green 1931 1h 21m 8.0

A Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.

Blonde Crazy

Blonde Crazy

Roy Del Ruth 1931 1h 19m

Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

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