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Noel Langley
Writer 1911 - 1980

Noel Langley

South Africa

Noel Langley was a South African-born (later naturalised American) novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. He wrote the screenplay which formed the basis for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and is one of the three credited screenwriters for the film. His finished... Read full bio →

Filmography

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11 titles
Snow White and the Three Stooges

Snow White and the Three Stooges

Walter Lang 1961 1h 47m 6.0

An ice-skating Snow White finds refuge from the Wicked Queen with the Three Stooges.

Knights of the Round Table

Knights of the Round Table

Richard Thorpe 1953 1h 55m 6.0

In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda

Richard Thorpe 1952 1h 40m 7.5

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers

Noel Langley 1952 1h 49m

The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe

Richard Thorpe 1952 1h 46m 8.0

Sir Walter Scott classic story of the chivalrousness Ivanhoe who Joins Robin of Locksley in the fight against Price John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.

Tom Brown's Schooldays

Tom Brown's Schooldays

Gordon Parry 1951 1h 33m 5.0

In 1830s England, Tom Brown attends a rugby boys' school, where his moral and personal growth is formed through friendship, bullying–particularly from the cruel Flashman–and the influence of headmaster Dr Thomas Arnold.

Scrooge

Scrooge

Brian Desmond Hurst 1951 1h 26m 7.0

Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his ways through the intervention of the ghost of his former partner and of three spirits in this faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic.

Trio

Trio

Ken Annakin, Harold French 1950 1h 31m

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

They Made Me a Fugitive

They Made Me a Fugitive

Alberto Cavalcanti 1947 1h 39m 7.5

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz

Victor Fleming 1939 1h 42m 8.3

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

Maytime

Maytime

Robert Z. Leonard 1937 2h 12m

An opera star's manager tries to stop her romance with a penniless singer.

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