Known For
Complete Filmography

Moment to Moment
1966
Screenplay
When an erring wife's supposedly dead lover turns up an amnesiac, it's her unsuspecting shrink husband who's enlisted to get those memories back.

The Spiral Road
1962
Screenplay
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and o...

North to Alaska
1960
Screenplay, Producer
After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has ...

The Barbarians
1960
Writer, Producer
Revak is an Iberian prince from Penda, a small island where the Carthagian fleet ransacked and enslaved the surviving native men, including him. After...

The Horse Soldiers
1959
Screenplay, Producer
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes insta...

No Time for Sergeants
1958
Screenplay
Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride. He’s been drafted. Will’s ready. But is Uncle Sam ready for Will?

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957
Screenplay
A Roman Catholic nun and a hard-bitten US Marine are stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific during World War II. Under c...

The Bad Seed
1956
Screenplay
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps he...

Lucy Gallant
1955
Writer
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.

Elephant Walk
1954
Writer
Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Tay...

Mogambo
1953
Screenplay
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley'...

My Son John
1952
Adaptation
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.

Quo Vadis
1951
Screenplay
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadershi...

Show Boat
1951
Screenplay
A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.

Panic in the Streets
1950
Writer
A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a...

Love That Brute
1950
Writer
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.

Down to the Sea in Ships
1949
Screenplay
During a whaling expedition in the late 1800's, the aging Captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore) and his new first mate, Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark...

The Adventures of Tartu
1943
Screenplay
British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent ...

Tortilla Flat
1942
Screenplay
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friend...

Johnny Eager
1941
Screenplay
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
Screenplay
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible c...

Boom Town
1940
Screenplay
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil t...

Too Hot to Handle
1938
Screenplay
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he m...

The Last Gangster
1937
Screenplay
A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and m...

Captains Courageous
1937
Screenplay
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vesse...

Love on the Run
1936
Screenplay
A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.

The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
Screenplay
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

Small Town Girl
1936
Screenplay
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dak...

Wife vs. Secretary
1936
Screenplay
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional...

China Seas
1935
Screenplay
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only ris...

Naughty Marietta
1935
Screenplay
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unli...

Chained
1934
Screenplay
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose inter...

Treasure Island
1934
Screenplay
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in searc...

Laughing Boy
1934
Screenplay
A young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast.

Eskimo
1933
Writer
The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.

The Prizefighter and the Lady
1933
Screenplay
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.

Bombshell
1933
Screenplay
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Hell Below
1933
as Lieut. (JG) 'Speed' Nelson
On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. Fric...

Red Dust
1932
Screenplay
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives alon...

Tiger Shark
1932
Writer
A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.

Scarface
1932
as MacArthur from the Journal (uncredited)
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to pr...

Scarface
1932
Dialogue, Continuity
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to pr...

The Wet Parade
1932
Adaptation, Writer
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton fami...