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Robert Presnell Sr is a Scriptwriter and Associate Producer American born on 29 april 1894

Robert Presnell Sr

Robert Presnell Sr
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Nationality USA
Birth 29 april 1894
Death 12 february 1969 (at 74 years)

Robert Presnell Sr est un scénariste et producteur de cinéma américain né le 29 avril 1894 à Lake View (Iowa) et mort le 12 février 1969 à Burbank (Californie).

Best films

Meet John Doe
Meet John Doe
(1941)
(Story) What Price Hollywood?
What Price Hollywood?
(1932)
(Adaptation) The Big Pond
The Big Pond
(1930)
(Story)

Usually with

Orry-Kelly
Orry-Kelly
(8 films)
John Reinhardt
John Reinhardt
(4 films)
Leo F. Forbstein
Leo F. Forbstein
(6 films)
Hobart Cavanaugh
Hobart Cavanaugh
(5 films)
George Robinson
George Robinson
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Robert Presnell Sr (31 films)

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Scriptwriter

Second Chance
Second Chance (1953)
, 1h22
Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Robert Mitchum, Jack Palance, Linda Darnell, Roy Roberts, Dan Seymour, Sandro Giglio
Roles Writer
Rating59% 2.9511052.9511052.9511052.9511052.951105
A mob bookkeeper (played by Milburn Stone) is confronted, shot, and killed by the utterly ruthless hitman Cappy Gordon (Jack Palance), under orders from the notorious gangster Vic Spilato, who is currently under investigation by the U.S. Senate. Cappy then heads for San Cristóbal, a bustling town in an unspecified Latin American country, with plans to deliver a similar fate to Spilato's estranged girlfriend, the singer Clare Shepperd (Linda Darnell), who is trying to escape her past connections with Spilato.
For You I Die
For You I Die (1947)
, 1h16
Directed by John Reinhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Prison films
Actors Cathy Downs, Paul Langton, Mischa Auer, Roman Bohnen, Rory Mallinson, Don C. Harvey
Roles Writer
Rating60% 3.0007353.0007353.0007353.0007353.000735
Forced to participate in a prison break, a convict on the run holds up at roadside diner.
The Guilty
The Guilty (1947)
, 1h11
Directed by John Reinhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Bonita Granville, Regis Toomey, John Litel, Wally Cassell, Thomas E. Jackson
Rating62% 3.1397253.1397253.1397253.1397253.139725
The film tells the story of two roommates, Mike Carr and Johnny Dixon. Johnny, who suffered a head injury during the war, meets a girl named Estelle Mitchell, and begins to date her. When he finds out she's dating other men around town he dumps her and starts dating her sweet twin sister, Linda.
High Tide
High Tide (1947)
, 1h12
Directed by John Reinhardt
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Lee Tracy, Francis Ford, Julie Bishop, Regis Toomey, Douglas Walton, Anthony Warde
Roles Ecrivain
Rating64% 3.2391753.2391753.2391753.2391753.239175
Newspaperman is caught in the middle of a ruthless city power struggle.
Meet John Doe
Meet John Doe (1941)
, 2h2
Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, James Gleason
Roles Story
Rating75% 3.796623.796623.796623.796623.79662
Infuriated at being told to write one final column after being laid off from her newspaper job, Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) prints a letter from a fictional unemployed "John Doe" threatening suicide on Christmas Eve in protest of society's ills. When the letter causes a sensation among readers, and the paper's competition suspects a fraud and starts to investigate, editor Henry Connell (James Gleason) is persuaded to rehire Mitchell, who schemes to boost the newspaper's sales by exploiting the fictional John Doe. From a number of derelicts who show up at the paper claiming to have written the original letter, Mitchell and Connell hire John Willoughby (Gary Cooper), a former baseball player and tramp in need of money to repair his injured arm (by Bonesetter Brown), to play the role of John Doe. Mitchell starts to pen a series of articles in Doe's name, elaborating on the original letter's ideas of society's disregard for people in need.
The Real Glory
The Real Glory (1939)
, 1h35
Directed by Henry Hathaway, Stuart Heisler, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Actors Gary Cooper, David Niven, Andrea Leeds, Reginald Owen, Broderick Crawford, Kay Johnson
Rating64% 3.2460353.2460353.2460353.2460353.246035
In 1906, Alipang (Tetsu Komai) and his Muslim Moro guerrillas are terrorizing the people of the Philippine island of Mindanao, raiding villages, killing the men, and carrying off the women and children for slaves. Instead of maintaining garrisons indefinitely to protect the Filipinos, the U.S. army tests out a new tactic at Fort Mysang. The army detachment is replaced by a handful of officers – Colonel Hatch (Roy Gordon), Captains Manning (Russell Hicks) and Hartley (Reginald Owen), and Lieutenants McCool (David Niven) and Larsen (Broderick Crawford) - who are to train the native Philippine Constabulary to take over the burden. Army doctor Lieutenant Canavan (Gary Cooper) is sent along to keep them healthy. They are welcomed by a skeptical Padre Rafael (Charles Waldron).
Disbarred
Disbarred (1939)
, 58minutes
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Gail Patrick, Robert Preston, Otto Kruger, Sidney Toler, Clay Clement, Frank M. Thomas
Rating60% 3.005513.005513.005513.005513.00551
Tyler Craden is disbarred by the legal profession after destroying evidence against his client, gangster Mardeen, following the murder of a cop.
Bureau of Missing Persons
Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
, 1h13
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Pat O'Brien, Lewis Stone, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Bette Davis, Ruth Donnelly
Rating64% 3.2443753.2443753.2443753.2443753.244375
Amid vignettes involving a philandering husband who fakes amnesia, a child prodigy who yearns to live a normal life, an aging bachelor whose housekeeper has disappeared, and an old lady whose daughter has run away, the primary plot line focuses on brash detective Butch Saunders, who is assigned to find missing Chicago banker Therme Roberts. Butch finds himself attracted to the man's wife Norma, despite the fact they're both married, so when his superior, Captain Webb, tells him she really is Norma Phillips and the man she claims is missing is not her husband but the person she has been accused of murdering, he doesn't believe her. Norma fakes her suicide by drowning and disappears, but can't resist returning when Butch stages her funeral in the hope she'll surface. Not only she but the missing Roberts, as well, turn up at the services. Norma tells Butch she once was Roberts' secretary, and he killed his mentally disturbed twin brother and assumed his identity in order to avoid embezzlement charges. Roberts denies her accusations, but Webb tricks him into admitting his guilt. Norma is cleared and, when Butch learns his wife Belle never divorced her first husband, the two are free to wed.