Complete Filmography

The Beat Generation
1959
Writer
A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.

High School Confidential!
1958
Screenplay
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naiv...

The Brothers Rico
1957
Screenplay
Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour whe...

Autumn Leaves
1956
Writer
A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.

The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
Screenplay
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old d...

New Orleans Uncensored
1955
Writer
Discharged naval officer Dan Corbett moves to New Orleans and accepts a job as a longshoreman, unaware that the docks are run by an infamous racketeer...

Shark River
1953
Screenplay
Nobody has an easy time of it in the costume actioner Shark River. Wanted for murder, Clay Webley (Warren Stevens) and his wounded cellmate Curtis Par...

Desert Legion
1953
Screenplay
A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.

The Jazz Singer
1953
Screenplay
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

Along the Great Divide
1951
Screenplay
US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Rode...

Comanche Territory
1950
Screenplay, Story
Silver has been found on comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement with the indians. When James 'Jim' Bowie comes into t...

The Lady Gambles
1949
Story
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the ca...

Man-Eater of Kumaon
1948
Screenplay
A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village. In time the doctor experiences a personal change when he accepts t...

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948
Screenplay
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and ...

Ladies' Man
1947
Screenplay
A boy from the country inherits $10 million, and decides to go to New York City to live it up.

Once Upon a Time
1944
Screenplay
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Fly...

Destroyer
1943
Screenplay
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the c...

First Comes Courage
1943
Screenplay
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies la...

The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942
Screenplay
After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Un...

New York Town
1941
Screenplay
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stef...

Texas
1941
Screenplay
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the ...

Those High Grey Walls
1939
Screenplay
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from...

Golden Boy
1939
Screenplay
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangste...

Blind Alley
1939
Screenplay
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.