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Jonathan Latimer

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

12 titles
The Unholy Wife

The Unholy Wife

John Farrow 1957 1h 34m

A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover. Things go wrong when they accidentally kill the wrong person.

Back from Eternity

Back from Eternity

John Farrow 1956 1h 40m

A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found.

Plunder of the Sun

Plunder of the Sun

John Farrow 1953 1h 21m 6.0

An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.

Botany Bay

Botany Bay

John Farrow 1952 1h 33m 6.0

Based on the story of the start of Australia's colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving the torturous voyage with other prisoners to the new penal colony at Botany Bay. Because of his attempt to escape, evil Captain Gilbert decides to return him to England on charges of mutiny.

Submarine Command

Submarine Command

John Farrow 1951 1h 27m 6.0

Submarine commander Ken White reminisces about his wartime years aboard submarine USS Tiger Shark and struggles with feelings of personal guilt.

Alias Nick Beal

Alias Nick Beal

John Farrow 1949 1h 33m 7.0

After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction.

The Big Clock

The Big Clock

John Farrow 1948 1h 35m 7.7

George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer.

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

John Farrow 1948 1h 21m 7.0

When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. Now years later, he desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family.

They Won't Believe Me

They Won't Believe Me

Irving Pichel 1947 1h 35m 6.0

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

Nocturne

Nocturne

Edwin L. Marin 1946 1h 27m

In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.

The Glass Key

The Glass Key

Stuart Heisler 1942 1h 25m 7.3

When a corrupt politician Paul Madvig (Brian Donlevy) is accused of murder, his friend and right hand man Ed Beaumont (Alan Ladd) is determined to track down the real killer. Fending off amorous advances from his boss’ fiancée Janet Henry (Veronica Lake) and attacks from gangsters with nothing to lose, Beaumont’s loyalty is severely tested.

Topper Returns

Topper Returns

Roy Del Ruth 1941 1h 28m 6.5

A ghost with the help of Topper - the only one who can see her - try to find her murderer.

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