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C. Gardner Sullivan is a Scriptwriter, Editor and Additional Writing American born on 18 september 1884 at Stillwater (USA)

C. Gardner Sullivan

C. Gardner Sullivan
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Nationality USA
Birth 18 september 1884 at Stillwater (USA)
Death 5 september 1965 (at 80 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

C. Gardner Sullivan (September 18, 1884 – September 5, 1965) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He was a prolific writer with more than 350 films among his credits. In 1924 the magazine Story World selected him on a list of the ten individuals who had contributed the most to the advancement of the motion picture industry from its inception forward. Four of Sullivan's films, The Italian (1915), Civilization (1916), Hell's Hinges (1916) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), have been listed in the National Film Registry.

Best films

Sadie Thompson
Sadie Thompson
(1928)
(Scriptwriter) All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front
(1930)
(Scriptwriter) Alibi
Alibi
(1929)
(Writer) North West Mounted Police
North West Mounted Police
(1940)
(Scriptwriter)

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Joseph H. August
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Filmography of C. Gardner Sullivan (102 films)

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Scriptwriter

The Buccaneer
The Buccaneer (1958)
, 2h
Directed by Anthony Quinn, Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Yul Brynner, Charles Boyer, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Inger Stevens, Henry Hull
Rating63% 3.1989553.1989553.1989553.1989553.198955
Installé à La Nouvelle-Orléans, le pirate français Jean Laffite contrôle toute la région, et tente de rester neutre dans le conflit qui oppose Américains et Britanniques. Mais son amour pour la fille du gouverneur Clairborne va l'obliger à prendre parti et à s'engager au côté du général américain Andrew Jackson...
North West Mounted Police
North West Mounted Police (1940)
, 2h6
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Madeleine Carroll, Preston Foster, Robert Preston, George Bancroft
Rating62% 3.1489153.1489153.1489153.1489153.148915
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (Gary Cooper) is sent to Canada during the 1880s in pursuit of outlaw Jacques Corbeau (George Bancroft), arriving in the midst of the Riel Rebellion. Dusty meets nurse April Logan (Madeleine Carroll) and quickly falls in love with her. However, she is already involved with Canadian Mountie Sergeant Jim Britt (Preston Foster). Dusty and April have become involved with one another, which becomes evident to Jim, to whom April wishes to remain loyal.
Union Pacific
Union Pacific (1939)
, 2h15
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson, Charles Barton, James Patrick Hogan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy
Rating69% 3.493233.493233.493233.493233.49323
The 1862 Pacific Railroad Act signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad westward across the wilderness toward California, but financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau. Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
The Buccaneer
The Buccaneer (1938)
, 2h4
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame, Walter Brennan, Ian Keith
Rating65% 3.2946453.2946453.2946453.2946453.294645
Installé dans les bayous de La Nouvelle-Orléans, le pirate français Jean Laffite contrôle le commerce de toute la région tout en tentant de rester neutre dans le conflit qui oppose Américains et Britanniques. Les circonstances vont l'obliger à prendre parti et à s'engager au côté du général américain Andrew Jackson...
Men Must Fight
Men Must Fight (1933)
, 1h12
Directed by Edgar Selwyn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War
Themes Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Diana Wynyard, Lewis Stone, Phillips Holmes, May Robson, Robert Young, Robert Greig
Rating61% 3.0952853.0952853.0952853.0952853.095285
Nurse Laura Mattson (Diana Wynyard) and World War I military pilot Lt. Geoffrey Aiken (Robert Young) fall in love after only knowing each other for a few days. Tragically, he is brought to her hospital and, by chance, put under her care after being fatally wounded on his very first mission. After he dies, Laura realizes she is pregnant. Edward Seward (Lewis Stone) loves her and persuades her to marry him. As far as anyone knows, the child will be his.
Strange Interlude
Strange Interlude (1932)
, 1h49
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan, Robert Young, May Robson
Roles Writer
Rating56% 2.8047152.8047152.8047152.8047152.804715
Gordon Shaw was a flyer who was shot down and killed during World War I. Nina would have married him before he left, but her father forbade the marriage. Charlie is a friend, but Nina does not love him and he is too timid, too shy, to tell her the way that he feels about her. Sam is her husband and her love disappears after the ceremony when she finds out that there is mental illness in his family and that there can be no children.
Skyscraper Souls
Skyscraper Souls (1932)
, 1h39
Directed by Edgar Selwyn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Warren William, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff, Anita Page, Norman Foster, Verree Teasdale
Roles Adaptation
Rating71% 3.5860253.5860253.5860253.5860253.586025
The film depicts the aspirations and lives of several people in the Seacoast National Bank Building. Among them is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife, Ella, happy by paying her bills. His secretary Sarah wants him to get a divorce so they can marry.
Huddle
Huddle (1932)
, 1h43
Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ramón Novarro, Madge Evans, Una Merkel, Ralph Graves, John Arledge, Frank Albertson
Rating57% 2.86242.86242.86242.86242.8624
Tony Ametto, a young steel-worker with immigrant parents, gets a scholarship to Yale, where he becomes a football star and finds romance with a young heiress.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
, 2h32
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Nate Watt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Louis Wolheim, Richard Alexander, Lew Ayres, John Wray, William Bakewell, Ben Alexander
Rating80% 4.0479754.0479754.0479754.0479754.047975
Professor Kantorek gives an impassioned speech about the glory of serving in the Army and "saving the Fatherland". On the brink of becoming men, the boys in his class, led by Paul Baumer, are moved to join the army as the new 2nd Company. Their romantic delusions are quickly broken during their brief but rigorous training under the abusive Corporal Himmelstoss, who bluntly informs them, "You're going to be soldiers—and that's all."
Hell's Heroes
Hell's Heroes (1930)

Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Fritzi Ridgeway, Maria Alba, Walter James
Rating71% 3.589223.589223.589223.589223.58922
Four men, Bob Sangster, "Barbwire" Gibbons, "Wild Bill" Kearney, and José, rob the bank in the town of New Jerusalem. José and the cashier is killed, while Barbwire is shot in the shoulder. The three outlaws escape the posse, fleeing into the desert. However, their horses die and they have little water.