Complete Filmography

Second Chance
1953
Writer
A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.

Second Chance
1950
Screenplay
A bank president and his wife, facing a crisis in their life and both nearing the age of fifty, look back on what has happened to them over the years ...

Sofia
1948
Producer
A former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and spirit them away from behind the Iron Curtain.

For You I Die
1947
Writer, Producer
A convict is forced to participate in a prison break even though he only has a year left on his sentence.

High Tide
1947
Screenplay
A car accident traps two men inside a car near the water. With the tide coming in, they discuss the circumstances that led up to the accident.

The Guilty
1947
Screenplay
Two friends land in hot water when they begin dating twins and one of the women ends up dead.

Cuban Pete
1946
Screenplay
Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to...

The Stilwell Road
1945
Writer
Documentary - Documentary about the construction of the Stilwell Road--originally called The Ledo Road--a 478-mile passage from Assam, India, to Ledo,...

The Big Bonanza
1944
Screenplay
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid b...

Attack! The Battle for New Britain
1944
Writer
Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glouster, New Britain island in 1943 in the South Paci...

Hurricane Smith
1941
Screenplay
Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new life, but one of the real criminals shows up to ...

Meet John Doe
1941
Story
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The p...

Money and the Woman
1940
Screenplay
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Thou Shalt Not Kill
1939
Screenplay
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)

The Real Glory
1939
Screenplay
Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous atta...

Disbarred
1939
Screenplay
The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to...

Night Key
1937
Producer
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
Four Days Wonder
1936
Producer
Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, J...

Postal Inspector
1936
Story, Associate Producer
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.

Mary Jane's Pa
1935
Producer
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and ...

The Key
1934
Producer
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.

Gambling Lady
1934
Associate Producer
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks ou...

Mandalay
1934
Producer
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

Hi, Nellie!
1934
Producer
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a s...

Female
1933
Producer
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engin...

The Kennel Murder Case
1933
Adaptation
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broke...

Bureau of Missing Persons
1933
Screenplay
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...

The Narrow Corner
1933
Screenplay
An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

Terror Aboard
1933
Story
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.

The Keyhole
1933
Screenplay
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

Employees' Entrance
1933
Screenplay
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 y...

What Price Hollywood?
1932
Adaptation
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaura...

The Lost Squadron
1932
Dialogue
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadisti...

Left Over Ladies
1931
Adaptation
Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't car...

The Bargain
1931
Writer
A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.

The Big Pond
1930
Story
A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.

Young Man of Manhattan
1930
Adaptation
Two flappers try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them.