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Writer 1908 - 1990

Sydney Boehm

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

19 titles
Seven Thieves

Seven Thieves

Henry Hathaway 1960 1h 42m 7.5

A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.

One Foot in Hell

One Foot in Hell

James B. Clark 1960 1h 30m

Mitch Barrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can't pay for the medicine she needs. The remorseful townspeople hire Mitch to be a deputy sheriff, thereby enabling him to plot an elaborate bank robbery with the help of an artist, a pickpocket, a gunslinger and a bar-girl.

The Revolt of Mamie Stover

The Revolt of Mamie Stover

Raoul Walsh 1956 1h 32m 6.0

In the early ’40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as World War II has begun to intensify. She settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life.

Violent Saturday

Violent Saturday

Richard Fleischer 1955 1h 30m 7.7

In this widescreen, color drama a series of small-town stories erupt when a bank is robbed in the area.

The Tall Men

The Tall Men

Raoul Walsh 1955 2h 2m 6.0

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

Six Bridges to Cross

Six Bridges to Cross

Joseph Pevney 1955 1h 36m 7.0

Follow the evolution of a small time juvenile delinquent hood to a big time racketeer. Based on the famous 1950 Brinks Robbery in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million. The story delves into the psychology of the perpetrators, as well as the intricate mechanics of the hold-up.

Hell on Frisco Bay

Hell on Frisco Bay

Frank Tuttle 1955 1h 38m 5.5

A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.

The Raid

The Raid

Hugo Fregonese 1954 1h 23m 3.0

A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.

Secret of the Incas

Secret of the Incas

Jerry Hopper 1954 1h 40m 6.0

Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.

Black Tuesday

Black Tuesday

Hugo Fregonese 1954 1h 20m 8.0

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.

The Big Heat

The Big Heat

Fritz Lang 1953 1h 29m 8.1

Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

Second Chance

Second Chance

Rudolph Maté 1953 1h 22m

A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.

The Atomic City

The Atomic City

Jerry Hopper 1952 1h 25m

Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos bomb formula.

When Worlds Collide

When Worlds Collide

Rudolph Maté 1951 1h 23m 6.7

When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.

Union Station

Union Station

Rudolph Maté 1950 1h 21m 7.0

Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.

Side Street

Side Street

Anthony Mann 1950 1h 23m 7.7

A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars it contains $30,000 and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.

Mystery Street

Mystery Street

John Sturges 1950 1h 33m 7.0

When the skeletal remains of a pregnant prostitute turn up on a Massachusetts beach the Barnstable cop Peter Morales (Montalban) teams up with Boston police and uses forensics with the help of Dr. McAdoo, a Harvard doctor (Bennett), to figure out who the woman is. The cop then tries to figure out how she died and, later, who killed her.

The Undercover Man

The Undercover Man

Joseph H. Lewis 1949 1h 25m 6.0

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.

High Wall

High Wall

Curtis Bernhardt 1947 1h 39m

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment.

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