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Alfred L. Werker is a Director, Assistant Director and Editor American born on 2 december 1896 at Deadwood (USA)
Alfred L. Werker (December 2, 1896 – July 28, 1975) was a film director whose work in movies spanned from 1917 through 1957. After a number of film production jobs and assistant directing, Werker co-directed his first film, Ridin' the Wind in 1925 alongside director Del Andrews. He was brought in by Fox Film Corporation executives to re-shoot and re-edit Erich von Stroheim's film Hello, Sister! (1933), co-starring Boots Mallory and ZaSu Pitts.
Most of Werker's work is unremarkable, but a few were well received by critics. Those films included House of Rothschild (1934) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939); the latter film is considered one of the best in the Sherlock Holmes series.
During the early 1940s, he directed a number of comedies including Laurel & Hardy's A-Haunting We Will Go (1942).
In the late 1940s, Werker worked for the B-picture film studio Eagle-Lion Films. Notable films from that period include the unique mystery thriller Repeat Performance and He Walked by Night. The latter film, however, was taken over by uncredited director Anthony Mann.
Werker was nominated in 1949 for the Locarno International Film Festival's Best Police Film category for He Walked By Night (1948) and won. The following year, he was nominated for, but did not win, the Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for Lost Boundaries (1949).
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Alfred L. Werker
Birth name Alfred Louis Werker
Nationality USA
Birth 2 december 1896 at Deadwood (USA)
Death 28 july 1975 (at 78 years) at Orange County (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 2 december 1896 at Deadwood (USA)
Death 28 july 1975 (at 78 years) at Orange County (USA)
Most of Werker's work is unremarkable, but a few were well received by critics. Those films included House of Rothschild (1934) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939); the latter film is considered one of the best in the Sherlock Holmes series.
During the early 1940s, he directed a number of comedies including Laurel & Hardy's A-Haunting We Will Go (1942).
In the late 1940s, Werker worked for the B-picture film studio Eagle-Lion Films. Notable films from that period include the unique mystery thriller Repeat Performance and He Walked by Night. The latter film, however, was taken over by uncredited director Anthony Mann.
Werker was nominated in 1949 for the Locarno International Film Festival's Best Police Film category for He Walked By Night (1948) and won. The following year, he was nominated for, but did not win, the Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for Lost Boundaries (1949).
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The Young Don't Cry (1957)
, 1h29Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sal Mineo, James Whitmore, J. Carrol Naish, Gene Lyons, Paul Carr, Stefan Gierasch
Rating60%
Un adolescent solitaire, pensionnaire d'un orphelinat, aide un prisonnier évadé condamné à tort à retrouver sa dignité.
Rebel in Town (1956)
, 1h18Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Payne, Ruth Roman, J. Carrol Naish, Ben Cooper, Ben Johnson, James Griffith
Rating67%
Home from the Civil War, where he fought for the Union army, John Willoughby now lives in the western town of Kittreck Wells with wife Nora and their 7-year-old son, Petey. An appeal for help from Marshal Russell comes when a band of former Confederate soldiers are seen pulling a robbery in a neighboring town. John, who hates all rebels, agrees to go, against his wife's wishes that all his fighting must end.
At Gunpoint (1955)
, 1h21Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, Walter Brennan, Skip Homeier, Tommy Rettig, John Qualen
Rating62%
Plainview is a peaceful town, all the better for bad man Alvin Dennis and his mean brother Bob to rob the bank there. They figure small-town sheriff Pete MacKay won't pose much of a problem to them.
Canyon Crossroads (1955)
, 1h23Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Richard Basehart, Phyllis Kirk, Stephen Elliott, Russell Collins, Richard Hale, Tommy Cook
Rating59%
Three Hours to Kill (1954)
, 1h17Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Dana Andrews, Donna Reed, James Westerfield, Dianne Foster, Stephen Elliott, Richard Coogan
Rating63%
Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews) returns to town three years after being falsely accused of murdering Carter Mastin (Richard Webb). He recounts the story of the night of the murder to Sheriff Ben East (Stephen Elliott). Viewers find out that he was strung up by a town mob after it appeared he had indeed committed the murder and he still bored the scar from the ordeal. Laurie (Donna Reed), Carter's sister, who was planning on marrying Jim delivers him from his fate. After being given three hours by the Sheriff to find the true killer, Jim, through much interrogation and speculation is led to the guilty man.
Devil's Canyon (1953)
, 1h32Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Stephen McNally, Robert Keith, Jay C. Flippen
Rating54%
Arizona, 1897: A female outlaw, Abby Nixon, warns a lawman, Billy Reynolds, that her accomplices Bud and Cole Gorman are nearby. Reynolds manages to kill both in a gunfight, but finds himself arrested for murder, convicted and sentenced to a desert prison known as Devil's Canyon.
The Last Posse (1953)
, 1h13Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Derek, Broderick Crawford, Wanda Hendrix, Charles Bickford, Warner Anderson, Henry Hull
Rating64%
When the anxiously awaited posse returns with neither prisoners nor the stolen money, we learn through flashbacks from three different characters, what took place. Having been cheated by Sampson Drune, a father and his two sons have robbed him and fled. A posse led by Drune took off after them and although unwanted, the town's drunken Sheriff joined them. The Sheriff's influence on Jed, the adopted son of Drune, is the key to Jed later revealing who killed Drune, the robbers, and what happened to the money.
Walk East on Beacon (1952)
, 1h38Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors George Murphy, Finlay Currie, Virginia Gilmore, Karel Štěpánek, Louisa Horton Hill, Peter Capell
Rating56%
Federal agent Belden (George Murphy) is assigned to locate the communist mastermind behind the leak, and to trace all avenues of informational access utilized by the Communists. Professor Albert Kafer (Finlay Currie) a scientist who is being blackmailed by the Reds into cooperating with them, while Alexi Laschenkov (Karel Stepanek) is the top Eastern-Bloc spy.
Sealed Cargo (1951)
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Dana Andrews, Claude Rains, Philip Dorn, Carla Balenda, Onslow Stevens, Skip Homeier
Rating66%
In 1943, at the height of the World War II Battle of the Atlantic, Captain Pat Bannon, skipper of the fishing trawler Daniel Webster, unloads his catch in his home port of Gloucester, Massachusetts. He reluctantly agrees to transport Margaret McLean to Trabo, a small community in Newfoundland. Shorthanded, he hires Danish sailor Konrad, and the Daniel Webster sails for the Grand Banks fishing grounds. Once at sea, another Dane, Holger, reports that the radio has been sabotaged. As Bannon knows all of the crew well except for Konrad and fellow Dane Holger, he suspects one of them or even Margaret of being a German agent.
He Walked by Night (1949)
, 1h19Directed by Anthony Mann, Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Jack Webb, Whit Bissell, Reed Hadley
Rating69%
On a Los Angeles street, Officer Rawlins, a patrolman on his way home from work, stops a man he suspects of being a burglar and is shot and mortally wounded. The minor clues lead nowhere. Two police detectives, Sergeants Marty Brennan (Scott Brady) and Chuck Jones (James Cardwell), are assigned to catch the killer, Roy Morgan (Richard Basehart), a brilliant mystery man with no known criminal past, who is hiding in a Hollywood bungalow and listening to police calls on his custom radio in an attempt to avoid capture. His only relationship is with his little dog.
Lost Boundaries (1949)
, 1h37Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Mel Ferrer, Susan Douglas Rubes, Peter Hobbs, Carleton Carpenter, Parker Fennelly, Leigh Whipper
Rating69%
In 1922, Scott Mason Carter (Mel Ferrer) graduates from Chase Medical School in Chicago and promptly marries Marcia (Beatrice Pearson). Both are light-skinned enough to be mistaken for whites. Scott has found an internship for himself, but his fellow graduate, the dark-skinned Jesse Pridham (Ray Saunders), wonders if he will have to work as a Pullman porter until there is an opening in a black hospital.
Repeat Performance (1947)
, 1h31Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Noir, Crime
Themes Time travel films
Actors Joan Leslie, Louis Hayward, Virginia Field, Tom Conway, Richard Basehart, John Ireland
Rating67%
On New Year's Eve 1946, a woman is standing over her dead husband with a gun in her hand. She panics and goes to her friends for help. While seeking help from her friends at a pair of parties, she wishes that she could live 1946 all over again.
Pirates of Monterey (1947)
, 1h19Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors María Montez, Rod Cameron, Gilbert Roland, Mikhail Rasumny, Gale Sondergaard, Phillip Reed
Rating59%
Wealthy aristocrat Marguerita Novarro and her maid are rescued by Phillip Kent when their carriage breaks loose. It is 1840 and Kent is transporting rifles from Mexico City to California to be used by soldiers there.
Shock (1946)
, 1h10Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir
Themes Children's films
Actors Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Stephen Dunne, Reed Hadley, Charles Trowbridge
Rating62%
The film tells the story of a psychiatrist, Dr. Cross (Vincent Price), who is treating a young woman, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw), who is in a coma-state, brought on when she heard loud arguing, went to her window and saw a man strike his wife with a candlestick and kill her. It also stars Lynn Bari as Dr. Cross's nurse/lover, Elaine Jordan.
My Pal, Wolf (1944)
, 1h14Directed by Alfred L. Werker, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Actors Sharyn Moffett, Jill Esmond, Una O'Connor, George Cleveland, Charles Arnt, Claire Carleton
Rating61%