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Jack Cunningham is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 1 april 1882 at Ionia (USA)
Jack Cunningham (April 1, 1882 – October 4, 1941) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 132 films between 1913 and 1939.
He was born in Ionia, Iowa, and died from a cerebral hemorrhage in Santa Monica, California.
(1928)
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Nationality USA
Birth 1 april 1882 at Ionia (USA)
Death 4 october 1941 (at 59 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Birth 1 april 1882 at Ionia (USA)
Death 4 october 1941 (at 59 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
He was born in Ionia, Iowa, and died from a cerebral hemorrhage in Santa Monica, California.
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Dial M for Murder (1954)
, 1h45Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays
Actors Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Patrick Allen
Roles Bobby (uncredited)
Rating81%
Tony Wendice (Ray Milland), an ex-professional tennis player, lives in a ground floor flat with his socialite wife, Margot (Grace Kelly). Tony retired after Margot complained about his busy schedule and she began an affair with American crime-fiction writer Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings), which Tony secretly discovered. Tony devises a plan to have Margot murdered.
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The Thundering Herd (1933)
, 1h2Directed by Henry Hathaway, Jack Cunningham, Zane Grey
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Buster Crabbe, Noah Beery Sr., Raymond Hatton, Blanche Friderici, Harry Carey
Rating56%
A Trip to Paramountown (1922)
, 20minutesDirected by Jack Cunningham
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities
Actors Alice Brady, T. Roy Barnes, Betty Compson, Dorothy Dalton, Bebe Daniels, Marion Davies
Rating63%
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Union Pacific (1939)
, 2h15Directed 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
Roles Adaptation
Rating69%
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?
Professor Beware (1938)
, 1h33Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Harold Lloyd, Ward Bond, Raymond Walburn, Lionel Stander, William Frawley, Thurston Hall
Roles Writer
Rating62%
Three thousand years after ancient egyptian Neferus's death, Professor Dean Lambert (who looks like Neferus) is translating his history tablet by tablet. Dean is convinced that falling in love will ruin him as it did Neferus, whose love to the Pharoah's daughter led to his downfall. He meets aspiring actress and heiress Jane Van Buren and exchanges clothes with her drunk audition partner, Snoop Donlan. Dean is arrested for stinking of liquor. His arrest makes the papers and he is asked to resign from the museum staff. Dean has ten days to join an expedition leaving for Egypt from New York and becomes a stowaway in the trailer of a pair of newlyweds bound for Niagara Falls. Snoop then accuses Dean of stealing his watch and clothes. Jane, meanwhile, follows the trailer in order to return Dean's clothes and the museum's car. The newlyweds kick Dean out, while the police trail him on suspicion of robbery and jumping bail. Jane then finds Dean and urges him to clear himself, but he convinces her to keep going to New York. While fleeing the police, Jane and Dean camp in the desert, and he falls in love and kisses her. The kiss causes a storm to break, just like the story of Neferus and Anebi. Dean is struck by lightning and begins speaking in a strange language.
Painted Desert (1938)
, 59minutesDirected by David Howard
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors George O'Brien, Laraine Day, Stanley Fields, Maude Allen, Fred Kohler, Lloyd Ingraham
Roles Story
Rating58%
Bob, a young rancher, buys a mine on his leased land to prevent the working of it. However, surveys show a valuable mineral deposit, so he and Carol, the granddaughter of the discoverer of the mine, who has been forced to sell it to a crook, start operations on it. Fawcett, the crook, schemes to get the mine back, but is outwitted at every turn and loses his life in the dynamiting which he inspired.
Mississippi (1935)
, 1h20Directed by Wesley Ruggles, A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Gail Patrick, Queenie Smith, Claude Gillingwater
Rating65%
Commodore Jackson (W. C. Fields) is the captain of a Mississippi showboat in the late nineteenth century. Tom Grayson (Bing Crosby) is engaged to be married and has been disgraced for refusing to fight a duel with Major Patterson (John Miljan).
Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
, 1h5Directed by W. C. Fields, Clyde Bruckman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mary Brian, W. C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Grady Sutton, Billy Bletcher, Vera Lewis
Rating74%
Ambrose Wolfinger works as a "memory expert" for a manufacturing company's president; he keeps files of details about all the people President Malloy (Oscar Apfel) meets with, so that Malloy will never be embarrassed about not remembering things when meeting with them. Ambrose supports himself, his shrewish wife Leona (Kathleen Howard), his loving daughter Hope (from a previous marriage; played by Mary Brian), his freeloading brother-in-law Claude (Grady Sutton), and his abusive mother-in-law Cordelia (Vera Lewis).
Murder at the Vanities (1934)
, 1h29Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Victor McLaglen, Carl Brisson, Gertrude Michael, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Dorothy Stickney
Rating64%
Jack Ellery (Oakie) is staging a lavish musical revue, starring Eric Lander (Brisson), Ann Ware (Carlisle), and Rita Ross (Michael), supported by a cast of a hundred background singers/dancers (almost all women, and many scantily clad) and two full orchestras. On opening night, just before the show, somebody tries to kill Ware several times. Ellery calls in police lieutenant Murdock (McLaglen) of the homicide squad to investigate. During the show a private detective and then Rita are murdered. Ellery hides this from the rest of the performers, claiming the victims are just sick, and talks Murdock into investigating while the revue continues on, otherwise Ellery will go broke.
It's a Gift (1934)
, 1h8Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors W. C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Tammany Young, Baby LeRoy, Morgan Wallace
Roles Ecrivain
Rating70%
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced biss-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia (Kathleen Howard), self-involved daughter Mildred (Jean Rouverol) and bothersome son Norman (Tommy Bupp). The information about the orange grove is confirmed: his barren plot contains only a tumbledown shack and a tumbleweed. Disgusted, his wife and family are walking out on him.
The Last Round-up (1934)
, 1h1Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Monte Blue, Barton MacLane, Fred Kohler, Fuzzy Knight, Richard Carle
Roles Writer
Rating66%
Wagon Wheels (1934)
, 56minutesDirected by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Romance, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Billy Lee, Monte Blue, Raymond Hatton, Olin Howland
Rating56%
En 1844, le scout Clint Belmet et ses deux acolytes guident un train de wagon vers le territoire nouvellement ouvert de l'Oregon malgré les difficultés et l'attaque indienne.
The Old-Fashioned Way (1934)
, 1h14Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors W. C. Fields, Baby LeRoy, Tammany Young, Judith Allen, Oscar Apfel, Nora Cecil
Rating72%
In 1897, a blustery actor-manager, "The Great McGonigle" (W.C. Fields), and his traveling theater troupe is perpetually underfunded and always just a step ahead of the law and creditors. McGonigle's daughter Betty (Judith Allen) is loyal to her father, and she tries to discourage a suitor named Wally Livingston (Joe Morrison), telling him he should follow his own father's wishes and go to college instead of trying to become an actor. Along with the rest of the troupe is McGonigle’s rather dim-witted assistant Marmaduke (Tammany Young).
Double Door (1934)
, 1h15Directed by Harry Fischbeck, Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Evelyn Venable, Mary Morris, Anne Revere, Kent Taylor, Guy Standing, Colin Tapley
Rating67%
A domineering woman tries to destroy her brother's new marriage.
Man of the Forest (1933)
, 59minutesDirected by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Harry Carey, Noah Beery Sr., Verna Hillie, Barton MacLane, Buster Crabbe
Rating55%
Man of the forest is about a young lady Verna Hillie who is captured by a band of outlaws. Randolph Scott figures out their plan and rescues Verna.