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Writer 1919 - 2002

John Meredyth Lucas

Los Angeles, California, USA

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

8 titles
City Beneath the Sea

City Beneath the Sea

Irwin Allen 1971 1h 33m 5.0

A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit the underwater city called Pacifica. They find they must defend the city against hostile alien forces.

Gasu ningen dai 1 gô

Gasu ningen dai 1 gô

Ishirō Honda 1960 1h 32m 5.0

A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes on to rob banks to fund his dancer girlfriend's career, killing those who interfere. Now Tokyo's most wanted criminal, can authorities stop him?

The Sign of Zorro

The Sign of Zorro

Norman Foster, Lewis R. Foster 1958 1h 31m

In this film, edited from eight episodes of Disney's hit TV series, Don Diego returns home to find his town under the heel of a cruel dictator, Capitan Monastario. Diego dons the mask of Zorro to fight the evil commandant's tyranny, and, with the help of his mute servant Bernardo, free the pueblo from his oppression.

The Scarlet Hour

The Scarlet Hour

Michael Curtiz 1956 1h 35m

An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.

Tumbleweed

Tumbleweed

Nathan Juran 1953 1h 19m

When a wagon train is wiped-out by the Yaqui Indians, the surviving guide Jim Harvey is accused of desertion and cowardice but Jim escapes the town jail in search of the truth.

Captain Pirate

Captain Pirate

Ralph Murphy 1952 1h 25m

In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella.

Red Mountain

Red Mountain

William Dieterle, John Farrow 1951 1h 24m 6.0

Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold prospecting couple into trouble when the husband is accused of a murder he committed.

Dark City

Dark City

William Dieterle 1950 1h 38m 6.0

Danny Haley's bookie operation is shut down, so he and his pals need money; when Danny meets Arthur Winant, a sucker from out of town, he decoys him into a series of poker games where eventually Winant loses $5000 that isn't his... then hangs himself. But it seems Winant had a shadowy, protective elder brother who believes in personal revenge.

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