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Abem Finkel is a Scriptwriter American born on 6 december 1889 at New York City (USA)
Abem Finkel est un scénariste américain né le 6 décembre 1889 à New York (État de New York) et mort le 10 mars 1948 à San Diego (Californie).
Après avoir été régisseur de théâtre à New York, il part à Hollywood en 1931, où il écrira des scénarios pour Columbia Pictures et Warner Bros..
(1941)
(Scriptwriter)
(1938)
(Scriptwriter)
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Nationality USA
Birth 6 december 1889 at New York City (USA)
Death 10 march 1948 (at 58 years) at San Diego (USA)
Birth 6 december 1889 at New York City (USA)
Death 10 march 1948 (at 58 years) at San Diego (USA)
Abem Finkel est un scénariste américain né le 6 décembre 1889 à New York (État de New York) et mort le 10 mars 1948 à San Diego (Californie).
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Films d'une famille liée au théâtre juif de New York, il fait ses études au City College of New York.Après avoir été régisseur de théâtre à New York, il part à Hollywood en 1931, où il écrira des scénarios pour Columbia Pictures et Warner Bros..
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The Tender Years (1948)
, 1h21Directed by Harold D. Schuster
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Joe E. Brown, Charles Drake, Josephine Hutchinson, Noreen Nash, James Millican, Griff Barnett
Roles Adaptation
Rating66%
Time Out of Mind (1947)
, 1h28Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton, Ella Raines, Eddie Albert, Leo G. Carroll, Helena Carter
Roles Ecrivain
Rating62%
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
, 1h32Directed by Victor Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Political films
Actors Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair, Florence Bates, Marc Platt, Shelley Winters
Rating61%
Near the end of the war, a reporter from Life magazine comes to the Music Box Theatre in London to write a story about the music hall that never missed putting on a performance during the Blitz. Stage manager Sam Royce recalls the halcyon days at the beginning of the war: Theatrical impresario May "Tolly" Tolliver is rehearsing her performers when dancer Tommy Lawson comes to audition. Although Tommy is a naturally gifted dancer, he improvises all his steps and consequently, Tolly refuses to hire him. Taking pity on Tommy, Americans Rosalind Bruce and Judy Kane, members of the troupe, teach him their routines, and he wins a part in the show.
God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
, 1h30Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Dennis Morgan, Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Stanley Ridges, Alan Hale, Richard Loo
Rating64%
At age 34, Army Air Force pilot Major Robert Lee Scott Jr. (Dennis Morgan) is considered too old to fly in combat, but he is recruited and volunteers to fly in a secret bombing mission from the Philippines against Tokyo, the Japanese capital. When the mission is cancelled after his arrival in India because of the fall of the Philippines, Scott is promoted to Colonel and is then assigned to fly transport aircraft. He flies dangerous, unescorted missions over The Hump from Burma to China in order to supply aviation gasoline and other much-needed supplies to the three squadrons of the American Volunteer Group, the Flying Tigers.
The Hundred Pound Window (1944)
, 1h24Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Frederick Leister, Mary Clare, Richard Attenborough, Niall MacGinnis
Roles Writer
Rating59%
Un comptable se trouve obligé de trouver un deuxième travail dans un champ de courses au guichet des paris. Il va se trouver mêlé aux agissements de criminels.
The Big Shot (1942)
, 1h22Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis, Susan Peters, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson
Roles Writer
Rating66%
Duke Berns (Humphrey Bogart) est approché par deux malfrats pour commetre un cambriolage chez le riche avocat Martin T. Fleming (Stanley Ridges). Ayant raccroché, il refuse cette proposition mais se rend chez Fleming par curiosité. Il y fait la rencontre de son épouse, Lorna (Irene Manning), qui est l'une de ses anciennes petites amies. Ils reprennent leurs relations, mais Berns est ensuite accusé du cambriolage sanglant qui endeuille peu après la maison de Fleming ...
Sergeant York (1941)
, 2h14Directed by Don Siegel, Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges, Margaret Wycherly
Rating76%
Alvin York (Gary Cooper), a poor young Tennessee hillbilly, is an exceptional marksman, but a ne'er-do-well prone to drinking and fighting, which does not make things any easier for his patient mother (Margaret Wycherly). He changes when he meets Gracie Williams (Joan Leslie), and works night and day to buy a good farm so she'll marry him. When he's cheated out of it at the last minute, he returns to his dissolute ways.
Jezebel (1938)
, 1h44Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Fay Bainter
Rating73%
In 1852 New Orleans, spoiled, strong-willed belle Julie Marsden (Bette Davis) is engaged to banker Preston "Pres" Dillard (Henry Fonda). In retaliation for Pres refusing to drop his work and accompany her while she shops for a dress, she orders a brazen red one for the most important ball of the year, one where white dresses for unmarried women are expected. All of Julie's friends are shocked, but no one can convince her to give up her whim.
White Banners (1938)
, 1h32Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Henry O'Neill, Kay Johnson
Rating70%
On a dreary, cold and snowy day in a small town in 1919 Indiana, a peddler named Hannah Parmalee (Bainter) appears at the door of a kind couple, Paul Ward (Rains) and his wife, Marcia (Johnson), selling apple peelers. Asked by Mrs. Ward to come inside and warm up, Hannah sees they are struggling financially and are in need of some domestic help. She offers her services and becomes their cook and housekeeper for room and board.
Marked Woman (1937)
, 1h36Directed by Michael Curtiz, Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Mayo Methot, Rosemary Lane, Eduardo Ciannelli
Roles Ecrivain
Rating70%
Mary Dwight Stauber (Bette Davis), a nightclub hostess who works for the notorious gangster Johnny Vanning (Eduardo Ciannelli) briefly meets and befriends a young man (Damian O'Flynn) who confides in her that he does not have the money to repay the gambling debt he has accrued during the night. He feels that it's a game, but Mary warns him that he is in real danger. She is shocked, but not surprised to learn soon after that he has been murdered, by Vanning's henchman Charlie Delaney (Ben Welden).
That Man's Here Again (1937)
, 58minutesDirected by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Hugh Herbert, Mary Maguire, Tom Brown, Joe King, Mariska Aldrich, Arthur Aylesworth
Roles Writer
Rating55%
Black Legion (1937)
, 1h23Directed by Michael Curtiz, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ann Sheridan, Helen Flint, Joe Sawyer
Rating68%
When passed over for promotion at work in favor of a foreign-born friend, Frank Taylor (Humphrey Bogart), a midwestern factory worker, joins the anti-immigrant Black Legion, a secret white vigilante organization portrayed as related to the Ku Klux Klan. Dressed in black robes and hoods, Taylor and the Legion mount a torchlight raid and burn down the friend's chicken farm, driving him out of town, so that Taylor can gain the job he believed was his. Soon, however, Taylor's recruiting activities with the Legion get in the way of his work, and he is demoted in favor of neighbor Mike Grogan (Clifford Soubier). The Legion takes action again, attacking Grogan.
Road Gang (1936)
, 1h1Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Donald Woods, Kay Linaker, Addison Richards, Joseph Crehan, Henry O'Neill, William B. Davidson
Roles Story
Rating61%
The managing editor of a Chicago newspaper crusades for inmates (Donald Woods, Carlyle Moore Jr.) in a Southern prison camp.
Public Enemy's Wife (1936)
, 1h9Directed by Nick Grinde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Pat O'Brien, Margaret Lindsay, Robert Armstrong, Cesar Romero, Dick Foran, Joe King
Rating59%
Special Agent (1935)
, 1h16Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Bette Davis, George Brent, George Reeves, Ricardo Cortez, William Eythe, Jack La Rue
Rating63%
Newspaper reporter Bill Bradford is deputized as a treasury agent by the Internal Revenue Bureau and assigned to find enough evidence to charge gangster Alexander Carston with tax evasion.