Known For
Complete Filmography

The Edge of the Blade
2023
Rigging Grip
In 1887, at a time when duels are in vogue in Paris, Clément Lacaze and Marie-Rose Astié meet. He's a charismatic master of arms; she's a feminist, fa...

The Unforgiven
1960
Novel
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.

The Searchers
1956
Novel
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

The Vanishing American
1955
Screenplay
A woman arrives in New Mexico to claim property she's inherited and receives an education in the greedy exploitation of the local Navajo.

Flight Nurse
1953
Writer
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.

Blackbeard, the Pirate
1952
Screenplay
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

I Dream of Jeanie
1952
Screenplay
The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.

Quebec
1951
Writer, Producer
Story of a revolt against England in 1830s Canada.

Rocky Mountain
1950
Story, Screenplay
A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army ...

High Lonesome
1950
Director, Writer
When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in the Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area.

The Sundowners
1950
as The Parson (uncredited)
Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west.

The Sundowners
1950
Story, Screenplay, Producer
Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west.

The Walking Hills
1949
Story, Screenplay
A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.

Tap Roots
1948
Screenplay
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the con...

Gunfighters
1947
Screenplay
Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as ...

Cheyenne
1947
Screenplay
Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to uncover...

San Antonio
1945
Screenplay
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is ...

Along Came Jones
1945
Novel
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman...

The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944
Screenplay, Adaptation
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944
Screenplay
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marb...

Reap the Wild Wind
1942
Screenplay
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Lo...

North West Mounted Police
1940
Screenplay
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Cor...