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Writer 1907 - 1985

John Wexley

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

7 titles
The Long Night

The Long Night

Anatole Litvak 1947 1h 41m 6.0

City police surround a building attempting to capture a suspected murder. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.

Cornered

Cornered

Edward Dmytryk 1945 1h 42m 6.5

A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.

Hangmen Also Die!

Hangmen Also Die!

Fritz Lang 1943 2h 14m 7.9

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.

City for Conquest

City for Conquest

Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco 1940 1h 44m 7.0

Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Anatole Litvak 1939 1h 44m 6.0

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

Anatole Litvak 1938 1h 27m 6.0

A brilliant Park Avenue doctor becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind.

Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces

Michael Curtiz 1938 1h 37m 7.9

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

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