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Harvey Gates is a Director, Scriptwriter and Additional Writing American born on 19 january 1889 at Hawaii (USA)
Harvey Gates (January 19, 1894 – November 4, 1948) was an American screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote for 216 films between 1913 and 1948.
He was born in Hawaii and died in Los Angeles, California.
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Birth name Harvey Gates
Nationality USA
Birth 19 january 1889 at Hawaii (USA)
Death 4 november 1948 (at 59 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 19 january 1889 at Hawaii (USA)
Death 4 november 1948 (at 59 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Harvey Gates (January 19, 1894 – November 4, 1948) was an American screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote for 216 films between 1913 and 1948.
He was born in Hawaii and died in Los Angeles, California.
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Harvey Gates collabore à 216 films entre 1913 et 1948.Usually with
Filmography of Harvey Gates (93 films)
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The Fire Eater (1921)
, 50minutesDirected by Harvey Gates, B. Reeves Eason
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Hoot Gibson, Louise Lorraine, Thomas G. Lingham, Carmen Phillips, George Berrell, George A. Williams
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Last Frontier Uprising (1947)
, 1h7Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Monte Hale, Lorna Gray, Roy Barcroft, Philip Van Zandt, Edmund F. Cobb, John Ince
Roles Writer
Rating57%
American government horse purchaser Monte Hale (Monte Hale) meets his match in both love and profession, private buyer Vance Daley (Malcolm "Bud" McTaggart), who works under unprofessed criminal "Liberal" Lyons (Philip Van Zandt). Hale and Daley attend a horse auction, and fight for Texan rancher Mary Lou Gardner's team of prized colts. When a victor cannot be determined, the gauntlet is thrown – the two men must compete one-on-one in a horse race; the victor will win the colts.
Don't Gamble with Strangers (1946)
, 1h8Directed by William Beaudine
Genres Drama
Actors Kane Richmond, Bernadene Hayes, Peter Cookson, Gloria Warren, Charles Trowbridge, Anthony Caruso
Roles Writer
Rating60%
Allotment Wives (1945)
, 1h20Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Paul Kelly, Kay Francis, Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael, Teala Loring, Bernard Nedell
Rating60%
The Office of Dependancy Benefits, O.D.B., is a U.S. government agency in charge of payment and financial support to women who have husbands serving in the World War II. Even after the war, the office still handles all these issues.
Divorce (1945)
, 1h11Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Bruce Cabot, Kay Francis, Jerome Cowan, Helen Mack, Mary Gordon, Jonathan Hale
Rating57%
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
Docks of New York (1945)
, 1h2Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Leo Gorcey, William Benedict, Huntz Hall, Buddy Gorman, Betty Blythe, Cy Kendall
Rating56%
Late one night on New York's poor East Side, a man is stabbed to death on a street corner, and his body is searched by his attacker. Nearby, Glimpy (Huntz Hall) shows Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey) a jeweled necklace he just found outside their tenement. While Glimpy and Muggs are investigating the area, the attacker spots them and gives chase, but is interrupted by the arrival of the police. Muggs and Glimpy then return to their tenement and learn from neighbor Mrs. Darcy (Betty Blythe), a war refugee from Toscania, that a thief just stole a valuable necklace from her. After she identifies the found necklace as hers and speculates that the man who attacked the boys was Compeau (Cyrus Kendall), an accomplice of the Toscanian Gestapo, she asks the boys to keep the heirloom until the next day. Unknown to the boys, Saundra (Gloria Pope), Mrs. Darcy's niece, is the princess of Toscania and is living in obscurity out of fear of the Gestapo.
Mr. Muggs Rides Again (1945)
, 1h3Directed by Wallace Fox
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, William Benedict, Johnny Duncan, Buddy Gorman, Minerva Urecal
Rating60%
After an electric "buzzing" device is found near his winning horse Turnabout, jockey Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey) is questioned by track officials. Despite his protests that Turnabout's owner, gambler Dollar Davis (George Meeker), and his righthand man, Gaby O'Neill (Bernard Thomas), planted the device on Turnabout so that they could bet against him, Muggs is suspended indefinitely from horseracing. Embittered, Muggs is about to quit racing forever when he and his gang of friends, The East Side Kids, learn that Mrs. Nora Brown (Minerva Urecal), whom they call "Ma," is about to lose her stable because of an unpaid feed bill. Pooling their savings, Muggs and the boys give Ma enough money to pay her debt, which had been bought up by the scheming Davis. Muggs then insists on caring for Sweet Alice, Ma's other horse, who has a lame leg. After sneaking Alice into the gang's clubhouse in New York's East Side, Muggs tricks an orthopedic specialist into examining her.
Northwest Trail (1945)
, 1h6Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Bob Steele, Joan Woodbury, John Litel, Raymond Hatton, Madge Bellamy, Ian Keith
Rating58%
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Trooper O'Brien assists Kate Owens when her car breaks down. Upon arrival at headquarters, his Inspector-in-charge assigns him to escort Kate to visit her Uncle in Morgan's Post located in the backwoods. As there are no roads to the area the two must travel by horse. O'Brien has two other tasks when he arrives; to discover why RCMP Sergeant Means has not filed a report in months and to investigate the complaint of Poodles Hanneford who alleges that the river going through his property has been blocked off and he has been fired upon when investigating.
Clancy Street Boys (1943)
, 1h6Directed by William Beaudine
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Noah Beery Sr., Benny Bartlett, Ernie Morrison
Roles Writer
Rating60%
Much to the dismay of Mugs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey), everyone in his East Side Kids gang (as well as the rival The Cherry Street Gang) gets to smack his rear end eighteen times in celebration of his eighteenth birthday. His mother Molly (Martha Wentwroth) then becomes distraught when she gets a letter from his "uncle" Pete Monahan (Noah Beery), a rancher friend of his late father, stating that he will soon visit them in New York. Molly explains to her only child that ever since his father lied to Pete that he had seven children, Pete has been sending birthday checks for each child. Pete is unaware that the McGinnises are so poor that they could never afford to return the checks.
Black Dragons (1942)
, 1h4Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, War, Thriller, Spy, Horror
Themes Spy films, Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, Clayton Moore, Robert Frazer, Edward Peil Sr., Robert Fiske
Roles Original Story
Rating43%
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likenesses. Dr. Melcher is condemned to a lifetime of imprisonment so the secret may die with him.
The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
, 1h4Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram "Tris" Coffin, Minerva Urecal, Elizabeth Russell, Angelo Rossitto
Rating46%
On the day of Alice Wentworth’s wedding, mad scientist Dr. Lorenz sends the young bride a poisoned orchid, the scent of which places the young woman in a state of suspended animation. He then spirits her body away to the basement laboratory of his isolated mansion and extracts her bodily fluids to inject into his vain and aged wife in order to renew her youth and beauty.
Let's Get Tough (1942)
, 1h2Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, Ernie Morrison
Rating52%
Watching a military parade (stock footage from World War I), the gang decides to enlist in order to "kill a million Japs". Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japanese American. Confronted by him wielding a short sword, the gang decides to come back at night but find him dead. Their father figure Police Lieutenant "Pops" Stevens tell them they should be ashamed of themselves as Keno, the owner of the shop, was Chinese, an ally of America and that Danny should be especially ashamed as his brother is in the service.
Mr. Wise Guy (1942)
, 1h10Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Billy Gilbert, Ernie Morrison, David Gorcey
Rating57%
In New York, the East Side youth gang, consisting of Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey), Danny Collins (Bobby Jordan), Glimpy Stone (Huntz Hall), Scruno (Ernest Morrison), Skinny (Bill Lawrence), and Peewee (David Gorcey), are falsely arrested on the wharf because the truck they are playing in was stolen. They are remanded to Wilton Reform School, where Muggs, the wise-cracking leader of the gang, is dubbed "Mr. Wise Guy" by the brutal guard Jed Miller (Dick Ryan).
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942)
, 1h1Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Romance
Actors Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Ernie Morrison, Stanley Clements
Roles Writer
Rating59%
This time around, the East Side Kids, a gang of well-meaning young rough-necks in New York, get pulled into a murder mystery. They manage to rescue a young girl by the name of Sylvia from her violent stepfather Morley's abuse. Soon after this the stepfather is killed by a gangster called McGaffey for interfering with his racketeering operation by stealing his money.
Smart Alecks (1942)
, 1h7Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Stanley Clements, Ernie Morrison
Roles Story
Rating56%
Hank Salko (Gabriel Dell), a member of the Eastside youth gang in New York, is initiated into the world of adult crime when two gangsters, Mike (Joe Kirk) and Butch Brocalli (Maxie Rosenbloom), hire him to stand watch while they rob a bank. When Hank tries to share some of his ill-gotten money with the East Side Kids, they suspend him from the club, and Hank is then arrested by Joe Reagan (Roger Pryor), the local policeman.