Known For
Complete Filmography

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to...

The Treasure of Pancho Villa
1955
Screenplay
In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.

The Moonlighter
1953
Story, Screenplay
Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged, but, since Wes always worked at night, they don't...

The Man from the Alamo
1953
Story
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 ...

Distant Drums
1951
Story, Screenplay
After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to re...

The Furies
1950
Novel
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

The Capture
1950
Producer, Novel, Screenplay
A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.

Moss Rose
1947
Adaptation
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the...

Pursued
1947
Screenplay
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely...

Duel in the Sun
1946
Novel
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad...

Till the End of Time
1946
Novel
Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with ...

The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946
Screenplay
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

Belle Starr
1941
Story
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. Breakin...

The Little Foxes
1941
Storyboard
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.

The Westerner
1940
Screenplay
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by...

Angels Wash Their Faces
1939
Screenplay
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 wit...

Off the Record
1939
Screenplay
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.

In Old Chicago
1938
Story
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

Babbitt
1934
Adaptation
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George ...

The Man with Two Faces
1934
Screenplay
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 apartme...

He Was Her Man
1934
Screenplay
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".

The Big Shakedown
1934
Screenplay, Story
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical prod...

College Coach
1933
Screenplay, Story
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a g...

Scarlet Dawn
1932
Screenplay
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challengi...

Miss Pinkerton
1932
Writer
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to fer...

The Crowd Roars
1932
Screenplay
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to beco...