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Writer 1905 - 1983

Maxwell Shane

Paterson, New Jersey, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Maxwell Shane (August 26, 1905 - October 25, 1983) was an American movie and television director, screenwriter, and producer Description above from the Wikipedia article Maxwell Shane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

20 titles
Nightmare

Nightmare

Maxwell Shane 1956 1h 29m 5.5

Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.

The Naked Street

The Naked Street

Maxwell Shane 1955 1h 24m

A reporter follows the story of a gangster (Anthony Quinn), his sister (Anne Bancroft) and her small-time hoodlum husband (Farley Granger).

Hell's Island

Hell's Island

Phil Karlson 1955 1h 24m

Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.

The Glass Wall

The Glass Wall

Maxwell Shane 1953 1h 22m

Peter is a refugee who wants to make a better life for himself in America, but he doesn't have the proper papers. Desperate for entry, he jumps ship and flees to New York to search for a World War II veteran whom he helped during the war.

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie

Henry King 1952 1h 48m

At the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character that helped bring about her loss and several others.

City Across the River

City Across the River

Maxwell Shane 1949 1h 31m

Brooklyn youth Frank Cusack, good son and brother by day, is a gang member by night. The Dukes, seemingly likable dead-end-kids, are dangerously involved with racketeer Gaggsy Steens. Despite the efforts of Franks's parents, he and pal Benny get involved in a serious crime.

I Cover Big Town

I Cover Big Town

William C. Thomas 1947 1h 3m

One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to the police beat. Her paper, "The Illustrated Press", following its usual policy of socially-correct muckraking by crusading editor Steve Wilson, is putting heat on the chief of police.

Fear in the Night

Fear in the Night

Maxwell Shane 1947 1h 12m

The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a mysterious woman breaks into a safe. It is so vivid that Vince suspects it may have really happened. To get the dream off his mind, he goes on a picnic with some relatives.

Big Town

Big Town

William C. Thomas 1946 1h

A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.

Scared Stiff

Scared Stiff

Frank McDonald 1945 1h 5m

A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.

One Body Too Many

One Body Too Many

Frank McDonald 1945 1h 15m 4.0

An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.

Double Exposure

Double Exposure

William Berke 1944 1h 3m

A magazine editor (Chester Morris) tries to establish the innocence of a photojournalist (Nancy Kelly) accused of murder.

Dark Mountain

Dark Mountain

William Berke 1944 57m 6.0

A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help. He hides her out in a cabin up in the mountains, and her husband goes on the hunt for both of them.

Submarine Alert

Submarine Alert

Frank McDonald 1943 1h 6m 6.0

Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio.

Alaska Highway

Alaska Highway

Frank McDonald 1943 1h 6m 6.0

Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two sons, Woody Ormsby, decides he had rather fight with bullets than bulldozers but is assigned by the Army to work on the project.

Power Dive

Power Dive

James P. Hogan 1941 1h 8m 6.0

The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard Arlen) is determined to prove the practicality of the new aircraft, designed by Professor Blake (Thomas Ross), father of Brad's sweetheart Carol (Jean Parker).

The Mummy's Hand

The Mummy's Hand

Christy Cabanne 1940 1h 7m 6.0

A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka.

The Invisible Killer

The Invisible Killer

Sam Newfield 1939 1h 3m 5.0

Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of the police Homicide Squad. When the call comes in that there has been a killing at Lefty Ross' place, a notorious gambling joint, Jerry is peeved when Sue beats him there.

S.O.S. Tidal Wave

S.O.S. Tidal Wave

John H. Auer 1939 1h 2m

A television hoax unleashes pandemonium as citizens believe New York City is being washed away.

Adventure in Sahara

Adventure in Sahara

D. Ross Lederman 1938 1h 7.0

Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post.

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