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Rowland Brown
Writer 1900 - 1963

Rowland Brown

Canton, Ohio, U.S.

Rowland Brown (November 6, 1900 – May 6, 1963), born Chauncey Rowland Brown in Canton, Ohio, was an American screenwriter and film director, whose career as a director ended in the early 1930s after he started many more films than he finished. He walked out of State's Attorney... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

7 titles
Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential

Phil Karlson 1952 1h 40m 7.5

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

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.

Johnny Apollo

Johnny Apollo

Henry Hathaway 1940 1h 34m 7.0

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.

Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces

Michael Curtiz 1938 1h 37m 7.9

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

What Price Hollywood

What Price Hollywood

George Cukor 1932 1h 28m 9.0

The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood producer.

Hell's Highway

Hell's Highway

Rowland Brown 1932 1h 2m

A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.

The Doorway to Hell

The Doorway to Hell

Archie Mayo 1930 1h 18m 7.0

A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.

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