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John C. Higgins is a Scriptwriter American born on 28 april 1908
John C. Higgins était un scénariste canadien né le 28 avril 1908 à Winnipeg au Canada, décédé le 2 juillet 1995 dans le Comté de Los Angeles en Californie aux États-Unis.
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Daughters of Satan (1972)
, 1h30Directed by John Hollingsworth Morse
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Tom Selleck, Barra Grant, Paraluman, Vic Silayan, Vic Díaz
Rating45%
This script must be run from the command line
The File of the Golden Goose (1969)
, 1h49Directed by Sam Wanamaker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Yul Brynner, Edward Woodward, Charles Gray, Adrienne Corri, John Barrie, Bernard Archard
Roles Writer
Rating55%
A trail of counterfeit hundred dollar bills has been discovered in several places around the world. When this comes to the attention of the Secret Service, they assign one of their top men, Pete Novak (Yul Brynner), to the case of finding out who is producing and distributing them.
Impasse (1969)
, 1h40Directed by Richard Benedict
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Heist films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Anne Francis, Vic Díaz, Lyle Bettger, Jeff Corey, Rodolfo Acosta
Roles Writer
Rating50%
Pat Morrison (Reynolds) runs a shady salvage operation in Manila. His latest scheme involves finding $3 million worth of gold bars hidden by the military during World War II. To this end, he needs the help of several former soldiers who were present when the gold was hidden. The first is Jesus (Vic Diaz), a Filipino muslim and Morrison's business associate. The second is Draco (Rodolfo Acosta), a hard-drinking, hot-tempered Apache living on an Indian reservation who answers Morrison's telegram with the promise of finding a wartime lover named Maria Bonita.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
, 1h50Directed by Byron Haskin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure, Romance
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Films based on Robinson Crusoe, Space opera
Actors Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West
Rating63%
Commander Christopher "Kit" Draper (Paul Mantee) and Colonel Dan McReady (Adam West) reach the Red Planet in their spaceship, Mars Gravity Probe 1. They are forced to use up their remaining fuel in order to avoid an imminent collision with a large orbiting meteoroid; they descend in their one-man lifeboat pods, becoming the first humans on Mars.
Untamed Youth (1957)
, 1h20Directed by Howard W. Koch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Mamie Van Doren, Lori Nelson, John Russell, Wally Brown, Lurene Tuttle, Yvonne Fedderson
Rating42%
Sisters Penny and Jane Lowe are arrested for hitchhiking and skinny dipping and are sentenced to work on a rural Texas farm for a corrupt agricultural magnate named Russ Tropp. The judge who sentenced the sisters to the farm is dating Tropp and is unaware of the treatment of the prisoners, until her son is hired to work at the farm and uncovers that a scam had been going on. Through dating the judge, Tropp ensures that all delinquents and rule breakers are ordered to work off their sentence at his farm therefore giving him a stable amount of cheap labor, allowing him to undercut all competition he faces. The judge's son also falls in love with Jane, while Penny, who performs four songs in the film, dreams of making it big in show business.
The Black Sleep (1956)
, 1h22Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Patricia Blair
Rating60%
Set in England in 1872, the story concerned a prominent, knighted surgeon whose wife has fallen into a coma caused by a deep-seated brain tumor. Due to medicine's state of the art at the time, he does not know how to reach the tumor without risking brain damage or death to the woman he loves, so he undertakes to secretly experiment on the brains of living, but involuntary, human subjects who are under the influence of a powerful Indian anesthetic, Nind Andhera, which he calls the "Black Sleep". Once he has finished his experiment, surviving subjects are revived and placed, in seriously degenerated and mutilated states, in a hidden cellar in the gloomy, abandoned country abbey where he conducts his experiments.
Hold Back The Night (1956)
, 1h20Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors John Payne, Chuck Connors, Peter Graves, Mona Freeman, Robert Easton, Audrey Dalton
Roles Writer
Rating61%
The film tells the story in flashbacks of a bottle of Scotch carried by a World War II and Korean War Marine, Captain Sam MacKenzie.
The Broken Star (1956)
, 1h22Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Howard Duff, Bill Williams, Douglas Fowley, Henry Calvin, Addison Richards, John M. Pickard
Roles Writer
Rating59%
This script must be run from the command line
Quincannon, Frontier Scout (1956)
, 1h23Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Tony Martin, Peggie Castle, John Bromfield, John Smith, Ron Randell, John Doucette
Rating55%
This script must be run from the command line
Big House, U.S.A (1955)
, 1h22Directed by Howard W. Koch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Reed Hadley, William Talman, Lon Chaney, Jr., Charles Bronson
Roles Ecrivain
Rating65%
In a Colorado national park, a boy having an asthma attack is approached by a nurse, Emily Evans, with a syringe. Frightened of needles, the boy flees into the woods, where Jerry Barker finds him.
Seven Cities of Gold (1955)
, 1h43Directed by Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Historical
Actors Anthony Quinn, Richard Egan, Michael Rennie, Jeffrey Hunter, Rita Moreno, Eduardo Noriega
Rating58%
Au milieu du XVIIIe siècle, le Mexique est sous domination espagnole. L'occupant envoie un groupe de soldats dans le nord à la recherche des sept légendaires cités d'or. Le capitaine Gaspar de Portola dirige l'expédition qu'accompagne un missionnaire, le père Serra. Avant de poursuivre ses recherches, Portola installe une garnison à San Diego, où le prêtre fonde une mission. Le lieutenant Mendoza, qui commande cette garnison, provoque la colère des Indiens en tombant amoureux d'une indigène...
Shield for Murder (1954)
, 1h22Directed by Edmond O'Brien, Howard W. Koch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Marla English, Edmond O'Brien, John Agar, Emile Meyer, Carolyn Jones, Claude Akins
Roles Writer
Rating67%
Lieutenant Barney Nolan (Edmond O'Brien), a 16-year veteran of the police force, has had enough. In a secluded alley late one night, he fatally shoots a bookmaker in the back and steals the $25,000 he was carrying. He then claims the man was killed trying to escape custody. Sergeant Mark Brewster (John Agar), his friend and partner, believes him, as does the Captain of Detectives, Captain Gunnarson (Emile Meyer). However, newspaper reporter Cabot (Herbert Butterfield) suspects otherwise.
The Diamond Wizard (1954)
, 1h23Directed by Dennis O'Keefe, Montgomery Tully
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Crime
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, Margaret Sheridan, Philip Friend, Alan Wheatley, Francis De Wolff, Michael Balfour
Roles Writer
Rating58%
Pony Soldier (1952)
, 1h22Directed by Joseph M. Newman
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tyrone Power, Robert Horton, Thomas Gomez, Cameron Mitchell, Stuart Randall, Anthony Earl Numkena
Rating58%
In 1876, the North-West Mounted Police send Constable Duncan MacDonald (Tyrone Power) and a blackmailed Blackfoot scout (Thomas Gomez) to get the Cree to sign Treaty 6 with The Crown. Initially hostile, the Cree are influenced by a Fata Morgana type mirage that they mistake for the power of Queen Victoria.
Border Incident (1949)
, 1h34Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about immigration
Actors Ricardo Montalbán, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva, James Mitchell, Arnold Moss, Alfonso Bedoya
Roles Story
Rating69%
"Here is the All-American Canal. It runs through the desert for miles along the California-Mexico border... Farming in Imperial Valley... [requires] a vast army of farm workers... and this army of workers comes from our neighbor to the south, from Mexico. ... It is this problem of human suffering and injustice about which you should know. The following composite case is based upon factual information supplied by the Immigration and Naturalization Service..."