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Martin Mooney is a Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 17 april 1896 at New York City (USA)

Martin Mooney

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Nationality USA
Birth 17 april 1896 at New York City (USA)
Death 21 january 1967 (at 70 years)

Martin Mooney est un scénariste et producteur américain né le 17 avril 1896 à New York, New York (États-Unis), décédé le 21 janvier 1967 à Los Angeles (États-Unis).

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William Beaudine
William Beaudine
(7 films)
Raymond L. Schrock
Raymond L. Schrock
(7 films)
John Ince
John Ince
(6 films)
Herbert Rawlinson
Herbert Rawlinson
(6 films)
Edgar George Ulmer
Edgar George Ulmer
(4 films)
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Filmography of Martin Mooney (35 films)

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Scriptwriter

In Fast Company
In Fast Company (1946)
, 1h3
Directed by Del Lord
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, William Benedict, David Gorcey, Bernard Gorcey
Roles Story
Rating60% 3.0495653.0495653.0495653.0495653.049565
The boys are involved in an altercation with a vegetable vendor and are saved by Father Donovan who convinces the policeman to let them go. He uses that to guilt Slip into becoming a driver at Cassidy's Cab Company after the owner is knocked out of commission by a rival cab company, Red Circle Cab.
Detour
Detour (1945)
, 1h8
Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Esther Howard, Claudia Drake, Don Brodie, Harry Strang
Roles Writer
Rating72% 3.6485853.6485853.6485853.6485853.648585
Piano player Al (Tom Neal) is bitter about having to work in a New York nightclub. After his girlfriend Sue (Claudia Drake) leaves to seek fame in Hollywood, he decides to join her. With little money, he has to hitchhike his way across the country.
Crime, Inc.
Crime, Inc. (1945)
, 1h15
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Leo Carrillo, Tom Neal, Lionel Atwill, Grant Mitchell, Sheldon Leonard, Harry Shannon
Roles Novel
Rating54% 2.7172052.7172052.7172052.7172052.717205
The film, based on a story by former crime reporter Martin Mooney, is about a newspaper journalist who faces prison time because he refuses to name his sources. To complicate matters more, the reporter falls in love with the sister of one of the racketeers he's trying to take down.
The Monster Maker
The Monster Maker (1944)
, 1h2
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell, Wanda McKay, Glenn Strange, Sam Flint
Rating48% 2.410472.410472.410472.410472.41047
Dr. Markoff (J. Carrol Naish) has concocted a formula that spreads a hideous disease named acromegaly - which extends bones and distorts facial features. Markoff has no moral dilemma in experimenting on unsuspecting human subjects. His amoral behavior assumes monstrous dimensions when famed concert pianist Lawrence (Ralph Morgan) is injected with the doctor's disease-inducing serum. In return for an antidote, Markoff intends to exact more than his pound of flesh by extorting a fortune from Lawrence and demanding the hand of the musician's pretty daughter Patricia (Wanda McKay).
Waterfront
Waterfront (1944)
, 1h8
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors John Carradine, J. Carrol Naish, Maris Wrixon, Edwin Maxwell, John Bleifer, Jack Ingram
Rating53% 2.666752.666752.666752.666752.66675
During World War II, J. Carrol Naish plays an optometrist who is really a Nazi spy. A book of his that he uses to decode a Nazi spy code is stolen from him while he was walking on the San Francisco waterfront at night. A Nazi agent who comes to meet him (John Carradine) is told of the theft and they team up to try to find the book.
Minstrel Man
Minstrel Man (1944)
, 1h10
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis, Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Gladys George, Alan Dinehart, Sr., Roscoe Karns, Jerome Cowan, Glynn Turman, Molly Lamont
Roles Story
Rating48% 2.4426952.4426952.4426952.4426952.442695
Singing star Dixie Boy Johnson (Benny Fields) and his wife Caroline (Molly Lamont) are jubilant over Dixie's headlining a Broadway show and Caroline's impending motherhood. On opening night, Caroline is rushed to the hospital and Dixie begs to leave the theater and join her, but producer Lew Dunn (Alan Dinehart) refuses. Caroline dies in childbirth and Dixie is shattered. He leaves the baby in the care of his friends, Lasses and Mae (Roscoe Karns and Gladys George), and drops out of sight. Presumed dead, Dixie stays under cover and takes an assumed name, as a shipboard entertainer. Years later, Lew Dunn grooms Dixie's daughter Caroline (Judy Clark) for stardom in a revival of Dixie's Broadway show. Dixie's former agent (Jerome Cowan) sees an opportunity to sue Dunn for damages, and arranges for Dixie to confront his daughter and his old friends.
Shake Hands with Murder
Shake Hands with Murder (1944)
, 1h2
Directed by Albert Herman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Iris Adrian, Frank Jenks, Douglas Fowley, Herbert Rawlinson, I. Stanford Jolley, Gene Roth
Roles Story
Rating58% 2.9110452.9110452.9110452.9110452.911045
Patsy Brent runs a small bail bond company. Her ambitious but dull-witted partner Eddie Jones secures bail for Steve Morgan a man accused of embezzling $100,000 from his bank. Brent is furious and is forced to track Morgan before he can skip the country. When the president of the bank is found murdered, she also suspects that Morgan may even be a killer as well. However he is trying to prove his innocence of the charge, and Brent is persuaded to assist him in finding the real culprit.
Mr. Wise Guy
Mr. Wise Guy (1942)
, 1h10
Directed 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
Roles Story
Rating57% 2.8556952.8556952.8556952.8556952.855695
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).
The Panther's Claw
The Panther's Claw (1942)
, 1h10
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Sidney Blackmer, Rick Vallin, Byron Foulger, Herbert Rawlinson, John Ince, Walter James
Rating58% 2.9057552.9057552.9057552.9057552.905755
Police see Digberry climbing over a wall, out of a graveyard at one a.m. He has left a thousand dollars inside on a grave, as ordered in a letter he received. The money is now gone. They take him to headquarters. He reveals the letter came from “the Panther” and is now believed as others have had letters from the same character and Digberry meets a group of them. They all got typewritten letters demanding a thousand dollars too but unlike him they consulted the police. The group all turn out to be connected (Digberry makes wigs). Baritone, Enrico Lombardi looks to be a possible candidate so the Commissioner orders him brought in.
Emergency Landing
Emergency Landing (1941)
, 1h4
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Romance
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Forrest Tucker, Carol Hughes, Evelyn Brent, Emmett Vogan, I. Stanford Jolley, Stanley Price
Roles Scénariste à l'image
Rating43% 2.1563752.1563752.1563752.1563752.156375
Arizona inventor "Doc" Williams (Emmett Vogan)has invented a wireless remote control that can pilot an aircraft. Despite his efforts and those of his friend, pilot Jerry Barton (Forrest Tucker), they can not interest anyone in the invention. Barton has found a job as a test pilot for a millionaire named George Lambert (William Halligan) with his own aircraft company. When Doc brings a model of his invention, the two send their model aircraft to buzz Lambert on the golf course. Lambert is fascinated and arranges a test, but his daughter Betty is not, especially when the model lands in a puddle and drenches her.