Complete Filmography

Cool Breeze
1972
Novel
A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.

Stiletto
1969
Writer
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds tha...

Ice Station Zebra
1968
Screenplay
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arcti...

The Jackals
1967
Story
Bad bank robber falls in love with granddaughter of miner he and his men planned to rob of gold, has change of heart.

4 for Texas
1963
Writer
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 ...

Cairo
1963
Novel
An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum. MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt.

The Great Escape
1963
Screenplay
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-secu...

Sergeants 3
1962
Writer
Mike, Chip, and Larry are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870.

The Lawbreakers
1961
Writer
The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner 's efforts to investigate homicides that take p...

September Storm
1960
Screenplay
American fashion model Anne Traymore, swimming off the isle of Majorca, loses a bracelet, which the handsome Manuel del Rio Montoya returns to her. Sh...

The Badlanders
1958
Novel
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people i...

Short Cut to Hell
1957
Screenplay
A hitman is found out because he was paid off in traceable stolen money. On the run, he kidnaps the girlfriend of the police detective in charge of h...

Accused of Murder
1956
Screenplay, Novel
A police detective finds himself entangled in the web of the underworld when he falls in love with a nightclub singer accused of murdering a crooked l...

I Died a Thousand Times
1955
Novel, Screenplay
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.

Illegal
1955
Screenplay
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney...

Captain Lightfoot
1955
Novel, Writer
In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets fam...

Night People
1954
Screenplay
A US intelligence officer, stationed in Germany, is caught in a political dilemma when the Russians kidnap a young Army private, the son of prominent ...

Dangerous Mission
1954
Writer
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.

Arrowhead
1953
Novel
Director Charles Marquis Warren's 1953 western stars Charlton Heston and Jack Palance. Chief of Scouts Ed Bannon works for the US Army at Fort Clark, ...

Law and Order
1953
Novel
Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.

The Racket
1951
Screenplay
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the...

Iron Man
1951
Novel
In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. His gambler brother George thinks Coke ...

Vendetta
1950
Screenplay
The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica.

The Asphalt Jungle
1950
Novel
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of v...

Colorado Territory
1949
Novel
After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.

Yellow Sky
1948
Story
In 1867, a gang robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws encounter a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a ho...

Belle Starr's Daughter
1948
Screenplay
The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.

The Man I Love
1946
Additional Writing
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various wa...

Nobody Lives Forever
1946
Screenplay, Novel
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.

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 ...

Background to Danger
1943
Screenplay
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

Action in the North Atlantic
1943
Additional Dialogue
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as pa...

Crash Dive
1943
Story
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new...

Wake Island
1942
Screenplay, Story
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island b...

This Gun for Hire
1942
Screenplay
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, ...

The Get-Away
1941
Screenplay
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.

High Sierra
1941
Screenplay, Novel
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

Law and Order
1940
Screenplay
Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He ...

Dark Command
1940
Novel
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local ba...

King of the Underworld
1939
Story
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her lice...

Some Blondes Are Dangerous
1937
Novel
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-lovi...

Wild West Days
1937
Novel
Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford and "Trigger" Benton come to Brimstone and help their friends Larry M...

Dr. Socrates
1935
Story
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor...

The Whole Town's Talking
1935
Story
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to h...

Dark Hazard
1934
Novel
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valeri...

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 Beast of the City
1932
Story
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.

Law and Order
1932
Novel
A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.

The Finger Points
1931
Writer
Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on...

Little Caesar
1931
Novel
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?