Robert Presnell Sr.

1894-04-29 37 Credits
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Second Chance

Second Chance

1953

Writer

5.9
Writing

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

Second Chance

Second Chance

1950

Screenplay

Writing

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

Sofia

1948

Producer

5.7
Producing

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

For You I Die

1947

Writer, Producer

5.7
Writing Producing

A convict is forced to participate in a prison break even though he only has a year left on his sentence.

High Tide

High Tide

1947

Screenplay

5.9
Writing

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

The Guilty

1947

Screenplay

5.3
Writing

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

Cuban Pete

Cuban Pete

1946

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

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

The Stilwell Road

1945

Writer

Writing

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

The Big Bonanza

1944

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

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

Attack! The Battle for New Britain

1944

Writer

6.0
Writing

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

Hurricane Smith

1941

Screenplay

4.0
Writing

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

Meet John Doe

1941

Story

7.3
Writing

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

Money and the Woman

1940

Screenplay

4.3
Writing

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

Thou Shalt Not Kill

1939

Screenplay

Writing

Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)

The Real Glory

The Real Glory

1939

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

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

Disbarred

1939

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

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

Night Key

1937

Producer

6.1
Producing

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

Producing

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

Postal Inspector

1936

Story, Associate Producer

6.2
Writing Producing

Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.

Mary Jane's Pa

Mary Jane's Pa

1935

Producer

6.0
Producing

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

The Key

1934

Producer

5.0
Producing

A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.

Gambling Lady

Gambling Lady

1934

Associate Producer

6.3
Producing

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

Mandalay

1934

Producer

5.9
Producing

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!

Hi, Nellie!

1934

Producer

6.5
Producing

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

Female

1933

Producer

6.3
Producing

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

The Kennel Murder Case

1933

Adaptation

6.1

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

Bureau of Missing Persons

1933

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

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

The Narrow Corner

The Narrow Corner

1933

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

Terror Aboard

Terror Aboard

1933

Story

6.0
Writing

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

The Keyhole

The Keyhole

1933

Screenplay

4.9
Writing

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

Employees' Entrance

Employees' Entrance

1933

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

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?

What Price Hollywood?

1932

Adaptation

6.7

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

The Lost Squadron

1932

Dialogue

6.3

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

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

The Bargain

1931

Writer

Writing

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

The Big Pond

The Big Pond

1930

Story

5.7
Writing

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

Young Man of Manhattan

Young Man of Manhattan

1930

Adaptation

5.5

Two flappers try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them.