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Robert Ellis
Writer 1892 - 1974

Robert Ellis

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

17 titles
I'll Get By

I'll Get By

Richard Sale 1950 1h 23m

I'll Get By is an updated remake of the 1940 20th Century-Fox musical Tin Pan Alley.

Pin Up Girl

Pin Up Girl

H. Bruce Humberstone 1944 1h 24m 6.0

Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO).

Iceland

Iceland

H. Bruce Humberstone 1942 1h 19m 6.0

Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to Katina. Desperately wanting out, James gets his buddy to help him.

Sun Valley Serenade

Sun Valley Serenade

H. Bruce Humberstone 1941 1h 26m 7.0

When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.

Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley

Walter Lang 1940 1h 34m

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.

Charlie Chan in City in Darkness

Charlie Chan in City in Darkness

Herbert I. Leeds 1939 1h 15m 5.3

Chan goes to Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I. There he investigates the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy. At the end Charlie preaches to us about the dangers of peace conferences.

Charlie Chan on Broadway

Charlie Chan on Broadway

Eugene Forde 1937 1h 8m 4.0

Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.

Charlie Chan at the Olympics

Charlie Chan at the Olympics

H. Bruce Humberstone 1937 1h 11m 5.7

Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!

Charlie Chan's Secret

Charlie Chan's Secret

Gordon Wiles 1936 1h 12m 5.0

Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his mansion only to be murdered soon after. When his body is discovered during a seance, everyone in attendance becomes a suspect, and it's up to Chan to find the murderer before he or she strikes again.

Charlie Chan at the Race Track

Charlie Chan at the Race Track

H. Bruce Humberstone 1936 1h 10m 7.0

When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.

Charlie Chan at the Circus

Charlie Chan at the Circus

Harry Lachman 1936 1h 12m 5.0

While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.

Charlie Chan in Egypt

Charlie Chan in Egypt

Louis King 1935 1h 13m 5.0

While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.

Port of Lost Dreams

Port of Lost Dreams

Frank R. Strayer 1934 1h 11m 8.0

A gangster's girlfriend on the run from the police, who suspect her of helping her boyfriend commit a robbery, holes up in a waterfront bar. She stows away on a fishing boat headed out to sea, and winds up falling in love with and marrying one of the fishermen, but doesn't tell him about her past.

In Love with Life

In Love with Life

Frank R. Strayer 1934 1h 6m 7.0

Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no interest in the dry material he brings to them.

Twin Husbands

Twin Husbands

Frank R. Strayer 1933 1h 8m

The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating him so they can get their hands on what remains of his wealth.

By Appointment Only

By Appointment Only

Frank R. Strayer 1933 1h 7m

When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter, and makes her his ward, but his fiancé doesn't particularly like it.

The Monster Walks

The Monster Walks

Frank R. Strayer 1932 1h 5.0

People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape.

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