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John Wexley is a Scriptwriter American born on 14 september 1907 at New York City (USA)
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Filmography of John Wexley (11 films)
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The Last Mile (1959)
, 1h21Directed by Howard W. Koch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films based on plays
Actors Mickey Rooney, Frank Overton, Michael Constantine, Clifford David, Ford Rainey, Johnny Seven
Roles Theatre Play
Rating65%
In a death row cell block nine inmates are scheduled for execution. Then "Killer" John Mears (Rooney) comes along. His viciousness infects the environment and his plans to break out of prison are the catalyst for tragedy.
The Long Night (1947)
, 1h41Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Howard Freeman, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Roles Writer
Rating64%
A dead man tumbles down a flight of stairs. When the police arrive at the top-floor apartment of Joe Adams (Henry Fonda), he shoots at them through the door.
Cornered (1945)
, 1h42Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Morris Carnovsky, Steven Geray, Micheline Cheirel, Luther Adler
Roles Adaptation
Rating65%
After the end of World War II, a former P.O.W., Canadian RCAF flyer Laurence Gerard (Powell), returns to France to discover who ordered the killing of his bride of only 20 days, a member of the French Resistance. His father-in-law Etienne Rougon identifies Vichy collaborator Marcel Jarnac. He supposedly died in 1943, but Rougon has strong doubts. Jarnac was so careful about maintaining his anonymity, there is not even a description of him on record. Gerard finds the partially burned front page of a dossier on Jarnac and an envelope addressed to Madame Jarnac in the rubble of the home of Jarnac's closest associate. The return address on the envelope indirectly allows Gerard to track the widow to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
, 2h14Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Arno Frey, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart
Rating73%
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda (Brian Donlevy), a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski), but his getaway car is discovered and therefore his planned safe house must reject him. When a woman he doesn't know, named Mascha (Anna Lee), deliberately misdirects German soldiers close to finding him, he seeks her home as an alternative safe house. This turns out to be the home of her father, history professor Stephen Novotny (Walter Brennan), whom the Nazis have banned from teaching. This plan works. But because the assassin now can't be found, the Nazi leaders in Prague decide to create an incentive for him to turn himself in or for others to do so. They arrange–with the help of fifth-columnist Emil Czaka (Gene Lockhart), a wealthy brewer–for 400 citizens, including Professor Novotny, to be executed, forty at a time, until the assassin is named. Through a complex series of events, however, the resistance manages to frame Czaka himself for the murder, but not before the Nazis have executed many of the hostages.
Stalingrad (1943)
Genres War, Documentary
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Brian Donlevy
Roles Writer
Rating74%
Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
, 1h36Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Hale, Lucile Watson, Turhan Bey
Rating66%
Francis Warren (Errol Flynn) appears to have a normal life handling investments, but secretly he writes lurid detective novels under the pseudonym F.X. Pettijohn. His other career is unknown to wife Rita (Brenda Marshall) or to anyone but Inspector Mason (Alan Hale), who mocks the books, insisting that true crime is much more difficult to solve. A man named Leopold Fissue (Noel Madison) turns up, wanting Francis to help him turn uncut diamonds into cash. Fissue's body is then found murdered on a yacht. The trail leads Francis to burlesque dancer Blondie White (Lee Patrick), who becomes his prime suspect. But her dentist, Dr. Davis (Ralph Bellamy), gives her a solid alibi. Rita becomes sure that Francis is having an affair. Blondie turns up dead, though, after asking Francis to retrieve a satchel from a locker. Rita thinks Francis must have killed Blondie, while her husband believes just the opposite to be true. The diamonds are in the suitcase. Francis concludes that only one man could be behind all this—Davis, the dentist, who promptly tries to kill Francis before the police can figure things out.
City for Conquest (1940)
, 1h44Directed by Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, John Arthur Kennedy, Frank Craven, Anthony Quinn, Elia Kazan
Rating71%
Cagney plays a truck driver named Danny Kenny, who starts as a New York boxing contender. Ann Sheridan plays his girlfriend, Peggy. Being successful as a boxer, Danny decides to financially help his brother Eddie (Arthur Kennedy) to become a professional musician. Peggy on the other hand, loses her heart to Murray Burns (Anthony Quinn), a professional dancer, and she turns down Danny's proposal in order to go for a dancing career. Embittered by Peggy's refusal, Danny continues to work as a boxer and eventually gets blinded by his opponent during a fight, who has placed some rosin dust onto his gloves. Now blind, Danny works as a newspaper stand operator, while Peggy's career as a dancer did not materialize. The movie ends with Eddie becoming a successful composer who dedicates his first major symphony at Carnegie Hall to his brother, who is listening to the concert on the radio from his newsstand.
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
, 1h44Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Spy
Themes Spy films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders, Paul Lukas, Henry O'Neill, Dorothy Tree
Rating66%
Dr. Karl Kassel (Paul Lukas) comes to America to rally support for the Nazi cause among German Americans. He instructs his audience at a German restaurant that the Führer has declared war on the evils of democracy and that, as Germans, they should carry out his wishes. Kurt Schneider (Francis Lederer), an unemployed malcontent, joins the cause and eventually becomes a spy for the group. A letter written by Schneider to a liaison in Scotland is intercepted by a British Military Intelligence officer (James Stephenson), leading to the ring's downfall.
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
, 1h37Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Films about capital punishment, Gangster films
Actors James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft, Billy Halop
Rating78%
Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien) are childhood friends who robbed a railroad car as kids. Rocky saved Jerry's life during the chase by pulling him out of the way of a steam train while running from the guards that saw them. Rocky was then caught by the police, but Jerry—who could run faster—escaped. Rocky, after being sent to reform school, grew up to become a notorious gangster, while Jerry became a religious priest who mentored at-risk youth.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
, 1h27Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp, Allen Jenkins, Gale Page
Rating69%
Dr. Clitterhouse is a wealthy society doctor in New York City who decides to research the medical aspects of the behavior of criminals directly by becoming one. He begins a series of daring jewel robberies, measuring his own blood pressure, temperature and pulse before, during and afterwards, but yearns for a larger sample for his study.
The Last Mile (1932)
, 1h15Directed by Samuel Bischoff
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Théâtre, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays
Actors Preston Foster, George E. Stone, Noel Madison, Alan Roscoe, Paul Fix, Al Hill
Roles Theatre Play
Rating61%
The movie presents the life in a prison where men are on death row. Some of them are wrongfully accused and convicted, there is nothing else in their future but the electric chair.