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George H. Plympton is a Scriptwriter and Continuity American born on 2 september 1889 at Brooklyn (USA)
George H. Plympton (September 2, 1889 – April 11, 1972) was an American screenwriter. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
A prolific screenwriter, Plympton collaborated in almost 300 films. His earliest known credits date back to 1912 as he concentrated almost exclusively on westerns. During the sound era he switched his focus to serials mostly for Columbia, Republic and Universal studios, co-scripting and adapting such chapter plays as Tarzan the Fearless (1933), Flash Gordon (1936), The Spider's Web (1938), The Phantom Creeps (1939), The Green Hornet (1940), Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940), The Masked Marvel (1943), Chick Carter, Detective (1946), Brick Bradford (1947), Superman (1948), Batman and Robin (1949), and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950). Active until 1957, he also was one of the principal writers on Columbia's Durango Kid and Jungle Jim series.
Plympton died in Bakersfield, California, at the age of 82.
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Nationality USA
Birth 2 september 1889 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 11 april 1972 (at 82 years) at Bakersfield (USA)
Birth 2 september 1889 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 11 april 1972 (at 82 years) at Bakersfield (USA)
A prolific screenwriter, Plympton collaborated in almost 300 films. His earliest known credits date back to 1912 as he concentrated almost exclusively on westerns. During the sound era he switched his focus to serials mostly for Columbia, Republic and Universal studios, co-scripting and adapting such chapter plays as Tarzan the Fearless (1933), Flash Gordon (1936), The Spider's Web (1938), The Phantom Creeps (1939), The Green Hornet (1940), Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940), The Masked Marvel (1943), Chick Carter, Detective (1946), Brick Bradford (1947), Superman (1948), Batman and Robin (1949), and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950). Active until 1957, he also was one of the principal writers on Columbia's Durango Kid and Jungle Jim series.
Plympton died in Bakersfield, California, at the age of 82.
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Directed by Ray Taylor, Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Superhero films, Space opera
Actors Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Donald Curtis, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon, Lee Powell
Roles Writer
Rating46%
When the Earth is attack by a mysterious substance causing death and leaving the victim purple, Dr Zarkov, Flash Gordon and Dale Arden discover the deaths are caused by one of Ming's spaceships from the planet Mongo. The trio go to the planet to bring an antidote back to the Earth and thwart Ming's schemes.
Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
, 1h10Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa, Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Gregg Palmer, Allison Hayes, Morris Ankrum, Gene Roth, Frank Hagney, Ray Corrigan
Roles Story
Rating52%
A team of deep sea divers led by wealthy American tycoon George Harrison (Joel Ashley) attempt to salvage a fortune in diamonds from the wreckage of a ship that sunk 60 years earlier off the coast of Africa. When the team arrives, they discover that the ship is cursed and the diamonds are protected by the undead crew who are now zombies, forced to guard the treasure until the diamonds are destroyed or the curse is finally lifted.
Blazing the Overland Trail (1956)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Dennis Moore, Lee Roberts, Gregg Barton, Don C. Harvey, Reed Howes, Al Ferguson
Roles Histoire
Rating58%
Rance Devlin intends to build his own empire in the American west using his Black Raiders and allied Indians to do so. Only US Army scout Tom Bridger, allied with Pony Express rider Ed Marr and U.S. Army cavalry Capt. Frank Carter, can stop him.
Perils of the Wilderness (1956)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Dennis Moore, Kenneth MacDonald, Evelyn Finley, Rick Vallin, John Elliott, Don C. Harvey
Roles Story
Rating57%
The film sees US Deputy Marshal Dan Lawson teaming up with RCMP Sergeant Gray to go undercover and capture the nefarious smuggler Bart Randall. Lawson, posing as an outlaw called Laramie, is ready to infiltrate the gang led by Randall, a self-styled Gun Emperor of the Northwest, who is wanted for murder and bank robbery in the United States. In addition to the difficulties inherent in the mission, Lawson has other issues to deal with, including the use of a fake totem and flying a hydra plane to overawe the menacing Indians and regenade whites. He also is aided in his search by Donna Blaine, who is suspected at first of giving information to Randall, but who in reality is a Canadian secret agent investigating Randall's illegal gun trading with the Indians.
Adventures of Captain Africa (1955)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors John Hart, Rick Vallin, Ben Welden, Bud Osborne
Roles Story
Rating64%
Trapper Nat Coleman and government agent Ted Arnold come upon a plot to take over an African nation. Its leader, Caliph Abdul el Hamid, has been exiled from his country and replaced by a look-alike usurper allied with an unnamed foreign power. The Caliph intends to return but enemy agents Boris and Greg are out to stop him. Captain Africa a masked jungle lord, appears occasionally to aid Nat and Ted.
Devil Goddess (1955)
, 1h8Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Johnny Weissmuller, Angela Stevens, Selmer Jackson, William Tannen, Edgar Latimer "Ed" Hinton, Jr., Abel Fernandez
Roles Writer
Rating57%
Adventure-seeker Johnny Weissmuller (Johnny Weissmuller) receives a request from Professor Carl Blakely (Selmer Jackson) to collaboratively rescue a certain Professor Dixon (William Blakely) from the Mountain of Explosive Fire in Kirundi. The Kirundi natives belong to a religious tribe worshipping a demon thought to control fire. Pious in nature, they are willing to sacrifice humans just to appease the fire demon, who in fact is Dixon. They are also known to possess mystical items, including a jewel-encrusted sabre.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (1954)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Jock Mahoney, Clayton Moore, Phyllis Coates, Don C. Harvey, Marshall Reed, Rodd Redwing
Roles Histoire
Rating66%
White Horse Rebels, under the command of a mystery villain known only as The Leader, attempt to create an independent "White Horse Republic" in Canada's north west. Funded by gold from the Marrow Mine, they attack Canadian settlements in the area. The North-West Mounted Police, represented primarily by hero Sgt. Ward and his sidekick Constable Nevin are, work to top the rebels and discover The Leader's real identity. An added complication comes in the form of First Nations, Blackfeet driven into Canada from the United States, who attack both sides and whom the rebels attempt to use as scapegoats for their own attacks.
Riding with Buffalo Bill (1954)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Marshall Reed, Rick Vallin, Jack Ingram, William Fawcett, Gregg Barton, Michael Fox
Roles Histoire
Rating57%
In this serial, the intrepid Buffalo Bill Cody comes to aid miner Rocky Ford and a group of ranchers in their defeat of a local crime lord, King Carney, who is trying to keep the new railroad out of the territory in order to carry on with his illegal operations. Then Rocky asks Cody to don the disguise of a legendary masked man, known as The Ridin' Terror, who once before smashed outlaw rule in the area. In response, Cody enlists the support of Rocky, the settler Reb Morgan and his sister Ruth, and plans offensive strategy to eradicate Carney and his outlaws. It takes him 15 episodes, each full of thrilling chases, fights, and assorted action all backed by a competent musical score.
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Richard Crane, David Bruce, John Crawford, George D. Wallace, Lee Roberts, Nick Stuart
Rating64%
In 1697, agents Richard Dale and Alan Duncan are sent on an undercover mission by the British Fleet to find and gather information on the notorious pirate, Captain William Kidd. Dale and Duncan soon join Kidd's crew and discover, to their surprise, that the Captain is far different than they had expected.
The Lost Planet (1953)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Judd Holdren, Vivian Mason, Michael Fox, Forrest Taylor, Gene Roth, Lee Roberts
Rating52%
Blackhawk (1952)
, 4h2Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred F. Sears
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Kirk Alyn, John Crawford, Michael Fox, Carol Forman, Don C. Harvey, Rick Vallin
Roles Writer
Rating61%
A flying squadron of World War II veterans, The International Brotherhood, is a private flying investigative force led by Blackhawk. They uncover a gang of underworld henchmen, led by the notorious foreign spy Laska, who reports to The Leader, a mystery man. During the a serial's 15 chapters, Blackhawk and his flying squadron set about bringing these criminals to justice.
Son of Geronimo (1952)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Clayton Moore, Rodd Redwing, Tommy Farrell, Bud Osborne, Marshall Reed, John Crawford
Roles Histoire
Rating72%
Jim Scott attempts to bring peace between west-bound settlers and native Apaches. This task is made harder by a band of local outlaws
King of the Congo (1952)
, 4h12Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes La préhistoire
Actors Buster Crabbe, Leonard Penn, Jack Ingram, Rick Vallin, William Fawcett, Rusty Wescoatt
Rating65%
The film series is a complicated serial with more twists than a maze that basically centers around a U.S. Air Force captain and his quest for missing microfilm that contains vital information. The heroic Buster Crabbe plays Captain Roger Drum, who shoots down an enemy plane on its way to Africa with the secret microfilm. Intent on revealing the subversive group that the message was for, Drum assumes the pilot's identity and flies to Africa himself and crashes in the jungle. He is rescued by the pacific Rock People, led by Princess Pha (Gloria Dea), and is renamed Thunda, King of the Congo, after he rings a temple gong in alarm. With the subversives believing Thunda is their missing pilot and under constant attack by another tribe called the Cave Men, our hero plots to bring down the subversives who are searching for a new metal more radioactive than uranium. At the end, Thunda (or Drum) clears the jungle of villains and reunites the Rock People and Cave Men for well.
, 4h47Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Actors Judd Holdren, George Eldredge, Gene Roth, Don C. Harvey, Skelton Knaggs, William Fawcett
Rating56%
Judd Holdren, in what was only his second starring screen role, plays Captain Video, the leader of a group of crime-fighters known as the Video Rangers. He faces an interplanetary menace, as the evil dictator of the planet Atoma, Vultura (Gene Roth) and his lackey, the traitorous earth scientist Dr. Tobor (George Eldredge) are planning to conquer the earth.
Mysterious Island (1951)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Films based on science fiction novels, Political films
Actors Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, Gene Roth, Leonard Penn, Rusty Wescoatt, Bernie Hamilton
Rating59%
During the siege of Richmond, Virginia, in the American Civil War, POW Capt. Cyrus Harding escapes from his Confederate captors in a rather unusual way – by hijacking an observation balloon. In his escape, Harding is accompanied by sailor Pencroft, his nephew Bert, writer Gideon, loyal soldier Neb, and a dog. A hurricane blows the balloon off course, and the group eventually crash-lands on a cliff-bound, volcanic, uncharted (and fictitious) island, located in the South Pacific, with very unusual inhabitants. They name it "Lincoln Island" in honour of American President Abraham Lincoln.