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Garrett Fort is a Scriptwriter American born on 5 june 1900 at New York City (USA)
Garrett Elsden Fort (June 5, 1900 - October 26, 1945) was an American short story writer, playwright, and Hollywood screenwriter. He was also a close follower of Meher Baba.
Fort made his screenwriting debut with the silent film, One of the Finest (1917). Early in his career, Fort co-wrote the Broadway play Jarnegan (1928), based on the novel by Jim Tully. Fort's first talkie effort was the ground-breaking Rouben Mamoulian production Applause (1929). In 2006 Applause was recognized as a culturally, historically and aesthetically significant film by the National Film Registry.
Fort was adept at alternating horrific highlights with bits of unexpected humor. As a screenwriter he is best remembered for his work on the original screen adaptations of such horror/melodramas as Frankenstein (1931), Dracula (1931), Dracula's Daughter (1936), and The Mark of Zorro (1940).
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Nationality USA
Birth 5 june 1900 at New York City (USA)
Death 26 october 1945 (at 45 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 5 june 1900 at New York City (USA)
Death 26 october 1945 (at 45 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Fort made his screenwriting debut with the silent film, One of the Finest (1917). Early in his career, Fort co-wrote the Broadway play Jarnegan (1928), based on the novel by Jim Tully. Fort's first talkie effort was the ground-breaking Rouben Mamoulian production Applause (1929). In 2006 Applause was recognized as a culturally, historically and aesthetically significant film by the National Film Registry.
Fort was adept at alternating horrific highlights with bits of unexpected humor. As a screenwriter he is best remembered for his work on the original screen adaptations of such horror/melodramas as Frankenstein (1931), Dracula (1931), Dracula's Daughter (1936), and The Mark of Zorro (1940).
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The Mark of Zorro (1974)
, 1h18Directed by Don McDougall
Origin USA
Genres Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Superhero films, Films about disabilities, Personne sourde ou muette, Zorro
Actors Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalbán, Gilbert Roland, Louise Sorel, Anne Archer, Yvonne De Carlo
Roles Adaptation
Rating58%
The plot follows the 1940 version almost scene-for-scene. In the 1840s, the foppish Don Diego Dela Vega returns from Spain to his family in California to find that his father has been replaced as ruler of the area by the cruel ruler Don Luis Quintero. Despite being a skilled swordsman, Diego downplays his skills in front of the evil Captain Esteban and shows himself to be rather a clown in front of his family. However, Diego secretly picks up the sword of justice as Zorro and fights to return justice to the region and his people.
Inside Job (1946)
Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford, Alan Curtis, Milburn Stone, Samuel S. Hinds, Joe Sawyer
Roles Story
Rating56%
An ex-con has a choice of losing his job or participating in a robbery.
Blood on the Sun (1945)
, 1h34Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong, Wallace Ford
Roles Writer
Rating59%
Nick Condon (James Cagney) is a journalist for the Tokyo Chronicle. He prints a story disclosing Japan's plan to conquer the world. The newspaper is seized by Japanese officers. Condon gets the Tanaka Plan, a paper in which all the plans are described. The Japanese spies who follow him think that Ollie and Edith Miller (Wallace Ford and Rosemary DeCamp) are the ones who discovered the plan because they suddenly have a lot of money and are coming back to the USA. When Condon goes to the ship to bid them farewell, he finds Edith dead. Hearing someone in the adjoining room, he tries to enter, but the intruder escapes. He has only a glimpse of a woman's hand wearing a ring with a huge ruby. Returning home, he finds Ollie, badly beaten. Ollie gives him the Tanaka plan before dying.
The Man in Half Moon Street (1945)
, 1h32Directed by Ralph Murphy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Nils Asther, Helen Walker, Paul Cavanagh, Konstantin Shayne, Edmund Breon, Morton Lowry
Roles Adaptation
Rating60%
A scientist, Dr. Karell (Asther), has found a way to prolong life (he is 120 years old) with the help of Dr. Van Bruecken (Schünzel). However, Dr. Karell has now fallen in love, and has discovered that if he doesn't get new glands, he will die.
Bataan (1943)
, 1h54Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Tom Dugan, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Bowman
Roles Writer
Rating68%
The US Army is conducting a fighting retreat. A high bridge spans a ravine on the Bataan Peninsula. After the army and some civilians cross, a group of eleven hastily assembled soldiers from different units is assigned to blow it up and delay Japanese rebuilding efforts as long as possible. The rear guard is a mixed lot, including:
Lady for a Night (1942)
, 1h27Directed by Leigh Jason
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors John Wayne, Joan Blondell, Montagu Love, Ray Middleton, Philip Merivale, Carmel Myers
Roles Story
Rating59%
Social climber Jenny Blake owns of the casino steam boat Memphis Belle, together with the influential Jack Morgan. Most of the customers are from the upper layers of the city's social life, but they have little respect for Jenny and her - in their opinion - vulgar occupation.
Street of Chance (1942)
, 1h14Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor, Louise Platt, Sheldon Leonard, Frieda Inescort, Jerome Cowan
Roles Ecrivain
Rating63%
Frank Thompson (Burgess Meredith), awakens in the middle of the street, after wreckage falling from a building in New York City hits him in the head. Frank soon discovers that his apartment has been rented out for a year and his wife Virginia has been living on her own elsewhere.
Among the Living (1941)
, 1h7Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey, Frances Farmer, Gordon Jones, Rod Cameron
Roles Ecrivain
Rating63%
Albert Dekker plays twins, John and Paul. Paul was supposed to have died when he was 10 years old, but actually went insane and was shut up in a secret room in his parents' mansion.
Ladies in Retirement (1941)
, 1h31Directed by Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Edith Barrett, Isobel Elsom
Rating70%
Ellen Creed, a proud spinster fallen on hard times, has been housekeeper/companion to her old friend Miss Leonora Fiske, a wealthy retiree who in her youth had been a chorus girl "of easy virtue", for about two years. Lucy is a maid who has also been there for some time. Ellen gets a letter one day about her two sisters, both of whom are a bit peculiar. The letter says that unless she can get them under control, the police will be called and they will be evicted from their flat for outlandish behavior. Ellen asks Miss Fiske if her sisters can visit and she says yes.
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
, 1h34Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Superhero films, Films about disabilities, Children's films, Personne sourde ou muette, Zorro
Actors Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette, J. Edward Bromberg
Roles Adaptation
Rating74%
Don Diego Vega (Tyrone Power) is urgently called home by his father. To all outward appearances, he is the foppish son of wealthy ranchero and former Alcade Don Alejandro Vega (Montagu Love), having returned to California after his military education in Spain. Don Diego is horrified at the way the common people are mistreated by the corrupt Alcalde, Luis Quintero (J. Edward Bromberg), who had forced his father from the position. Don Diego then adopts the guise of El Zorro ("The Fox"), a masked outlaw, who becomes the defender of the common people and a champion for justice. Meanwhile, he romances the Alcalde's beautiful and innocent niece, Lolita (Linda Darnell), whom he grows to love. As part of his plan, Don Diego simultaneously flirts with the Alcalde's wife Inez (Gale Sondergaard), filling her head with tales of Madrid fashion and culture and raising her desire to move there with her corrupt husband. In both his guises, Don Diego must contend with the governor's ablest henchman, the malevolent Captain Esteban Pasquale (Basil Rathbone). He eventually dispatches the Captain in a fast-moving rapier duel-to-the-death, forcing a regime change, Don Diego's plan all along.
The Devil Bat (1940)
, 1h8Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror, Crime
Actors Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien, Yolande Donlan, Guy Usher, Arthur Q. Bryan
Rating54%
The story involves a small town cosmetic company chemist (Lugosi) who is upset at his wealthy employers, because he feels they have denied him his due share of company success. To get revenge, he breeds giant bats. He then conditions them to kill those wearing a special after-shave lotion he has concocted. He cleverly distributes the lotion to his enemies as a "test" product.
Twelve Crowded Hours (1939)
, 1h4Directed by Lew Landers
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors Richard Dix, Lucille Ball, Allan Lane, Donald MacBride, Cy Kendall, John Arledge
Roles Story
Rating56%
When the brother of his girlfriend Paula Sanders is accused of murder, reporter Nick Green tries to clear him.
The Zero Hour (1939)
, 53minutesDirected by Sidney Salkow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Otto Kruger, Adrienne Ames, Donald Douglas, Jane Darwell, Frieda Inescort, J. M. Kerrigan
Roles Story
Rating55%
This grim melodrama tells the story of a kindly theatrical producer who mentors a beautiful young girl and helps her to become a big Broadway star. In time the two fall in love and decide to wed. Unfortunately, en route to a justice of the peace, tragedy strikes the happy couple and the would-be groom ends up permanently paralyzed. Still, his girl remains devoted to him and the marriage proceeds. Nine years pass and the woman decides she wants to adopt a child. All things seem to be in place for the adoption, but unfortunately, a widower shows up to claim the child. The wife and the widower begin an affair soon after meeting. When the husband finds out, he selflessly executes his final option to ensure his wife's future happiness.
Panama Lady (1939)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Romance
Actors Lucille Ball, Steffi Duna, Allan Lane, Evelyn Brent, Donald Briggs, Bernadene Hayes
Roles Story
Rating58%
Panama Lady is a cleaned-up remake of the 1932 Helen Twelvetrees vehicle Panama Flo. Lucille Ball essays the old Twelvetrees role as Lucy, a nightclub "hostess" stranded in Panama by her ex-lover Roy (Donald Briggs). Victimized by a shakedown orchestrated by Roy, oil rigger McTeague (Allan Lane) holds Lucy responsible. To avoid landing in jail, Lucy agrees to accompany McTeague to his oil camp as his housekeeper. Assuming she's been brought to this godforsaken spot for sexual purposes, Lucy eventually realizes that McTeague's intentions are honorable: All he wants is his money back, and he expects our heroine to work off the debt on her feet! Ultimately Lucy and McTeague fall in love, but not before the scurrilous Roy re-enters her life.
Storm Over Bengal (1938)
, 1h5Directed by Sidney Salkow
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Patric Knowles, Richard Cromwell, Edward Van Sloan, Rochelle Hudson, Douglass Dumbrille, Colin Tapley
Rating53%
Two Royal Air Force officers, Flt Lt Hallett and F/O Neil Allison visit a British outpost in India. Neil is the younger brother of Army Intelligence Officer Captain Jeffrey Allison who is away on an undercover mission in the unaligned and independent Princely state of Lhanapur. The British are worried about radio broadcasts from Ramin Khan inciting the Indian people to revolt. Upon the death of the elderly Maharajah of Lhanapur, Ramin Khan schemes to usurp the throne as a base for his revolt.