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Niven Busch
Writer 1903 - 1991

Niven Busch

New York City, New York, USA

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

11 titles
The Man from the Alamo

The Man from the Alamo

Budd Boetticher 1953 1h 19m 6.0

During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?

Distant Drums

Distant Drums

Raoul Walsh 1951 1h 41m 8.0

After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety

The Capture

The Capture

John Sturges 1950 1h 31m

A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.

Pursued

Pursued

Raoul Walsh 1947 1h 41m 7.5

A hard-hitting western drama starring Mitchum as an orphan raised by a feuding family who wants to see him dead.

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Tay Garnett 1946 1h 53m 7.2

Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman's older husband.

Belle Starr

Belle Starr

Irving Cummings 1941 1h 23m 5.5

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops.

The Westerner

The Westerner

William Wyler 1940 1h 40m 6.7

Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.

The Angels Wash Their Faces

The Angels Wash Their Faces

Ray Enright 1939 1h 26m 7.0

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.

In Old Chicago

In Old Chicago

Henry King 1937 1h 51m 7.0

The O'Leary brothers--honest Jack and roguish Dion--become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

The Man with Two Faces

The Man with Two Faces

Archie Mayo 1934 1h 13m 6.0

Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite

Miss Pinkerton

Miss Pinkerton

Lloyd Bacon 1932 1h 6m 6.0

A nurse, bored with her job, becomes a private detective and becomes embroiled in a complex murder case.

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